Canada elected its first new prime minister in nearly a decade last Monday, as the Conservative Party’s Stephen Harper was ousted by Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party, which also gained an absolute majority in the country’s government.
This past Saturday, Interim President Lisa Lynch hosted a State of the University talk designed to inform visiting parents about the University’s recent achievements.
On Oct. 3, Muhannad Halabi, 19, a resident of Ramallah, killed two Israeli men, Nehemia Lavi, 41, and Aharon Benita-Bennett, 22, in a terror attack in Jerusalem.
On Wednesday, Oct. 14, the student Allocations Board released their yearly budget decisions, which included significantly reduced funding from what clubs requested and have received in previous years.
And the results are in! For the 2015 year, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has been declared the winner of China’s Confucius Peace Prize for the Founding Leader as “he brought benefit to the people of Zimbabwe.” This benefit so frequently manifests itself in the presence of mass atrocities and election violence, but maybe for a moment let’s put that aside to reevaluate how we got here. The prize was first awarded in 2010 in response to the Nobel Committee’s choice to give the Nobel Prize to Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident who spent 11 years in prison.
Brandeis Climate Justice is a campus organization of undergraduate and graduate students. The group is committed to decarbonizing the economy, mitigating the worst consequences of climate disruption and assisting those most affected by our changing atmosphere and oceans.
On Oct. 19, the Liberal Party of Canada won 184 seats to take the majority in the 338-seat Canadian Parliament.
The civil war in Syria has led to a massive increase in the number of asylum seekers entering the European Union.
Now the longest war in U.S. history, the 14 year U.S. presence in Afghanistan will continue to rage on.
At the end of September, Alabama announced it would close 31 part-time driver’s license offices as a result of the $11 million cut in the General Fund Budget appropriation to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, according to a Sept.
As the chair of the Brandeis Department of Anthropology, I am delighted to report that 100 percent of the anthropology department’s tenured and tenure-track faculty have signed the Brandeis Faculty Forward petition in support of a vote among faculty outside the tenure track for a union.
In response to your article “Commuters denied access to dorms (Oct.13), the following is an open letter sent to DCL: Hello, I would like to complain about the policy that doesn’t allow people living off campus to swipe into the residence halls.
In the past few years, the topic of campus sexual violence has grown from relative obscurity in the political and news media to a regular item of discussion on television, in editorial pages and among policymakers.
In 2011, according to the American Association of Universiy Professors, 70 percent of college faculty were contingent, non-tenure track professors, paid significantly less than their significantly smaller number of tenured colleagues.
Last Tuesday, CNN hosted the first 2016 Democratic debate featuring candidates Hilary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee.
In a roundtable discussion last Thursday, students and staff discussed accessibility issues to University services and gathered suggestions about how to make the University more disability-friendly.
At the end of September, Alabama announced it would close 31 part-time driver’s license offices as a result of the $11 million cut in the General Fund Budget appropriation to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, according to a Sept.
In the first few weeks of the school year, students who live off-campus have been unpleasantly surprised to find out that their ID cards no longer allow them access to dorms and other campus housing spaces due to a change in the Rights and Responsibilities handbook.
Last Tuesday, the U.S. military took responsibility for airstrikes on an Afghan hospital, run by Doctors Without Borders, in the city of Kunduz.
Donald Trump could very well be America’s next president. Or “America’s First African President.” At least, that is what Trevor Noah, the host who has taken the seat of our beloved Jon Stewart, has to say.
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Brandeis breakfast: less options, less happiness
University receives a D- on campus free speech report card
Immigration judges discuss executive power and due process in Trump era
Staff members call for improved contracts at Labor Day protest