Mark Collins et alia, departed: the students are watching
To the Editor: At the end of December, my colleague and friend, Mark Collins, leaves Brandeis after 27 years working here.
Harry Mairson
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Letter to the Editor: Mark Collins et alia, departed: the students are watching
To the Editor: At the end of December, my colleague and friend, Mark Collins, leaves Brandeis after 27 years working here.
Honoring Oren and Ross contradicts University mission
I am really taken aback at the honorary degrees being awarded this spring by Brandeis to Michael Oren and Dennis Ross.Oren was designated an Israel Defense Forces spokesman last year and was its apologist during attacks where the IDF dropped white phosphorus on Gazan civilians.
OP-ED: Peanuts, presidents, and purpose: After Jimmy Carter, what's next?
One obvious word comes to mind when thinking of the $95K apparently spent on President Jimmy Carter's enormously successful Brandeis visit-in a $300M annual budget.
OP-ED: Jimmy Carter's 'Voices of Palestine'
Last spring, an Israeli student, Lior Halperin, put up an exhibit called "Voices of Palestine"-drawings by Palestinian teenagers depicting the misery of their lives in the Occupied Territories.
OP-ED: Louis Brandeis: Epitaph
Louis said from the grave: "If I amRemembered, don't make me a shamOf a nice Jewish boy,Or the life of a goy(Not to shul [1], Christmas tree [2] and ate ham [3]). False biography would be a flaw-Don't recount what would stick in my crawAnd thus bring me to grief.For my spiritual briefWas Democracy.
OP-ED: Schaden'freud': How intellectual are we?
"Schadenfreude" means pleasure derived from another person's misfortune, from the German "schaden" (harm) and "freude" (joy). Here's another kind.One of my advisees came by my office to drop the rather difficult course I'm teaching in the core sequence for computer science.
OP-ED: WWBD? What would Louis D. Brandeis think about Brandeis University?
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941). Among the greatest lawyers and Supreme Court Justices of the twentieth century, Brandeis' reputation as a giant of the modern Supreme Court is unequalled by any Justice other than Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
OP-ED: A truth for a truth: the Crown Center challenge
The challenge to Brandeis's new Crown Center for Middle East Studies is how to keep ideology from driving scholarship.
J'accuse! Defending the Arts and Sciences
Prof. Michael Gilmore (ENG) told me that Brandeis now teaches as many business courses as English courses.
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
Brandeis staff, student, and facilities members protest against merit delays
Fight breaks out at Springfest over presence of Israeli flag