Surf-pop duo Best Coast matures with new album
I think of California and I imagine Tupac, beaches and Hollywood-a laid-back life lived in the sun's rays that shine all year long.
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MBTA prices rise while commuter rail service stays
Starting July 1, Brandeis students and other Boston-area residents will see the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's proposed service cuts and an average fare increase of 23 percent go into effect. The MBTA Board of Directors approved its final proposal by a vote of four to one on Wednesday, in the latest effort to make up a $160 million budget gap for fiscal 2013, according to an April 4 Waltham News Tribune article. The Board heard protests from the public for about an hour and a half before voting on the proposal, but ultimately, Director Ferdinand Alvaro was the lone dissenting vote, according to an April 4 Boston Globe article. The plan relies in part on close to $60 million in funding from the state, which has yet to be approved by the legislature.
Univ websites to be evaluated
Following a concern over the accessibility of University websites raised at the Oct. 6, 2011 faculty meeting by Provost Steve Goldstein '78, Dean of Academic Services Kim Godsoe has created an advisory group to evaluate University websites for compliance with federal standards from the U.S. Department of Education. Godsoe chairs the Technology Accessibility Committee; other members include Associate Vice President of Communications Bill Burger, Director of Integrated Marketing Audrey Griffin-Goode, Associate General Legal Council Steven Locke, Director for Integrated Services in Library and Technology Services Josh Wilson, Assistant Provost for Graduate Student Affairs Alwina Bennett, Undergraduate Summer School Director Gwenn Smaxwill, Prof.
Abunimah speaks at Israel Apartheid Week
"It's uncomfortable and ugly," renowned journalist Ali Abunimah said at the event "Who is Afraid of the One-State Solution?" during Israeli Apartheid Week last Wednesday, "but the good news is that apartheid can end." Abunimah, co-founder of Electronic Infitada, a Palestinian news website, and author of a book called One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse, presented his views on a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, capping off Brandeis' first Israeli Apartheid Week, which had previously been called Israeli Occupation Awareness Week. "The two-state solution ignores the physical and political realities on the ground," Abunimah said.
White House praises Posse
The science Posse program at Brandeis is among one of the major accomplishments of the United States science, technology, engineering and math initiatives, according to a Feb.
Concert garners support for Turkish earthquake victims
My heart races when I hear musicians tune before a concert. There's something electric in the air when hearing a performer listen so intently to his instrument, seeking the sound and pitch he wants with unparalleled precision.
Police identify man in locker room peeping incident
In a campuswide email on Jan. 18, Director of Public Safety Ed Callahan wrote that the nearly two-week search for the individual found peering into an occupied shower in the women's locker room in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center has ended, as the individual was identified, interviewed and referred to the University's student judicial process. In an email to the Justice, Director of Student Rights and Community Standards Dean Gendron wrote that "it is not possible to discuss any active conduct matter, nor is it possible to discuss any individual's confidential records," and that the individual's violations of the Student Rights and Responsibilities handbook are private and unable to be published. In an email to the Justice, Callahan explained that "the individual was located through information provided by Community members and the aid of [closed-circuit television] technology." The individual will now have his case heard by the student judicial process. The victim, a graduate student, has not yet pressed charges but is working with Public Safety "relative to this process," wrote Callahan. According to the public safety advisory released on Jan.
Man spotted peering into locker room
A man "described as a lanky, 6' 3" white male with longish, light brown hair" was seen looking into a shower in the woman's locker room at the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center, according to a Jan.
Performers unite at King commemoration
So you're sitting in a packed Levin Ballroom, plastic chairs and cold floor, squeezed in with the person next to you.
WORLDVIEW: Discovering Cameroon
I am curled into a ball within the cocoon of my mesh mosquito sleeping net that nearly took my eye out the first time I assembled it.
Despite allegations of racism and misconduct, Carol Simon reinstated
A note from the editor regarding Carol Simon and BWBB
Predicting top five picks of the 2024 WNBA draft
Unearthing Hozier’s ‘Unheard’ gems
“They Haven’t Done Their Homework.”