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Senators discuss campus events, Union initiatives, upcoming hearing against Union President

(10/15/19 10:00am)

At its weekly meeting Sunday, the Senate discussed a complaint against Union President Simran Tatuskar ’21 that will be heard by the Judiciary Committee, how Friday’s Pride Deis event went and updates to last year’s initiative to place free menstrual products in bathrooms across campus.



University files amicus curiae brief in support of DACA

(10/15/19 10:00am)

In an Oct. 8 email to the community, University President Ron Liebowitz stated that, alongside 164 other universities and colleges in the United States, Brandeis has filed an amicus curiae brief in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. He explained that DACA “provides work permits and protection from deportation to nearly 700,000 undocumented people … who were brought to the U.S. as children.”


Public Safety annual safety and security report finds decrease in crime overall, increase in fire incidents

(10/15/19 10:00am)

Public Safety’s annual fire safety and security report, which spans the last three years and includes statistics about crime and fire rates on campus, shows an overall decrease in crime and an increase in fire incidents. 




Waltham technology company executive to plead guilty to embezzlement charges

(10/15/19 10:00am)

Shivani Patel, former executive assistant of a Waltham-based technology company, will plead guilty to charges that placed her in connection with a fraud and embezzlement scheme that made over $3 million, according to the District of Massachusetts Attorney’s Office. The Martha’s Vineyard Times reported that the name of the specific Waltham company for which Patel worked had not been released.






New rule would prohibit graduate student unions

(10/08/19 10:00am)

Graduate students working as teaching and research assistants would be prohibited from unionizing under a rule proposed by the National Labor Relations Board on Sept. 23. According to the rule, graduate students who work for a university are not employees because their relationship to the school is “primarily educational in nature.”


University implements new sustainability initiatives

(10/08/19 10:00am)

Since the start of the semester, the University has been sharing initiatives it is taking to improve sustainability efforts at Brandeis. According to the Brandeis Sustainability website, the office’s goals are to fulfill the University’s commitment to social justice, reduce its carbon footprint and be responsible members of the global community.


SAS head makes sudden, unexplained departure

(10/08/19 10:00am)

Shortly after the semester started, Elijah Harrison ’21 walked into the Student Accessibility Support office for a scheduled appointment with Director of SAS Beth Rodgers-Kay. Earlier that day when he had emailed her about running a few minutes late, he received an automated reply from Rodgers-Kay: “I am out of the office. I will not check email during this time.”



Recordings reveal new insight into life of Univ. alum Abbie Hoffman

(10/08/19 10:00am)

University alumnus Abbie Hoffman ’59 was a radical social activist, political organizer, drug dealer, conspiracist, rioter, author, FBI suspect and 1960s counterculture icon. Additionally, he was the first male cheerleader on the Brandeis cheerleading team, a fact only recently brought to light in a series of audio recordings that were donated to the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections by documentarian Keith Armonaitis.