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Union Treasurer Choon Woo Ha ’08 and President Shreeya Sinha ’09 will present a plan to address the problem of excess SAF money to the Union Senate Sunday. This fiscal year, there is approximately $170,000 of “unintentional rollover,” Ha explained in an e-mail message. Unintentional rollover, Ha explained, consists of F-board allocated money unspent by […]
Last Monday, the Brandeis Student Union unveiled its first draft of the Student Bill of Rights. With the new draft, students will be able to identify their rights and understand how to properly defend themselves in cases of disciplinary action. Since its inception at the beginning of the academic year, the Executive Committee on Student […]
Beginning in April, Brandeis will participate in National Geographic’s Genographic Project. The Brandeis project, known as Brandeis Explores the Journey of Humankind, will allow students in select courses to trace their “migratory ancestry path,” explained doctoral student and the Brandeis project’s administrative coordinator Miranda Waggoner. According to a university press release, the Genographic Project, spearheaded […]
Over 120 students attended the anti-war demonstration on Wednesday, marching from Shapiro to Usdan Campus Center. Students carried signs, sported painted faces and chanted slogans such as “five years too many, not worth a single penny,” and “end the war, support the troops.” The march, a collaborative project of Democracy For America, Student for a […]
In the fall of 2006, Choon Woo Ha ’08 was elected Union Treasurer in a special election after Harrison Chizek ’07 was forced to leave the university. Ha’s tenure has marked significant change in the position of Union Treasurer. He has overseen the application of the SAF amendment passed in the spring of 2006 and […]
Hannaford and Sweetbay Supermarkets, owned by the Belgium-based Delhaize Group, recently discovered that a computer hacker breached security and stole 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers from their customers. The data was accessed from Hannaford’s computer systems during the card authorization transmission process, explained Mike Norton, a spokesperson for Hannaford Bros. Credit and debit […]
Intimately connected with freedom of speech is another concept: the freedom to peaceably assemble. Similarly protected by the First Amendment, this right’s aim, at least on some level, is ensuring that criticism of the government remains part of the public discourse. It institutionalizes the citizenry’s ability to hold the federal government publicly accountable for its […]
Following poor grades received in the categories of endowment transparency and shareholder involvement on the Sustainable Endowments Foundation’s College Sustainability Report Card released in October, a group of student activists has formed a working group called InVEST to press the administration to reform the policies that led to Brandeis’ failing grades. InVEST, Independent Voices for […]
To address questions regarding Student Union representation, Director of Research and Development Sridatta Mukherjee ’09 formed the Committee to Explore Equal Representation. The committee, which includes Senator for Racial Minority Students Gabe Gaskin ’08, had its first meeting Tuesday night. The idea for the committee was “triggered by RMS,” and the conversations the Union E-board […]
Harvey Silverglate, founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, spoke to an audience of over 60 about the decline of the freedom of speech on campuses Wednesday. FIRE, a civil liberties non-profit group, was a vocal defender of Prof. Donald Hindley (POL), who was reprimanded by Provost Marty Krauss in November for alleged […]
