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CREW: Chugging on the Charles

by Jacob Kamaras | 10/23/2007

CORRECTION APPENDED SEE BOTTOMScott Wiener '08, who steers the men's crew team's boat as its cockswain, started down the toughest maneuver on the three-mile course of last Saturday's 43rd annual Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston, a turn under the Eliot Bridge where the boat of an eight-man crew from China's Peking University crashed and sank last year."The problem with the bridge is that the river is going one way, and the bridge is facing at an angle to the river such that you have to make a 90-degree [turn] within the period of 30 to 40 feet, and that's kind of difficult for a boat," Wiener said.But Wiener wasn't intimidated by the challenge, steering the crew team's boat clear of any trouble under the bridge."I cut it really short, and it was basically a perfect turn," he said.

Bronfman sponsors contest for visiting professorship

by Jacob Kamaras | 10/16/2007

A new temporary faculty position is opening up the University to the ideas of innovators and creative thinkers in the American Jewish community.Jewish philanthropist Charles Bronfman is sponsoring an open competition for a two-year visiting professorship at the University.

Bill Clinton to speak in December

by Jacob Kamaras | 10/16/2007

Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, will speak at the University Dec. 3, in honor of the late Eli Segal '64, a former Clinton adviser who died in February 2006, University President Jehuda Reinharz announced in a campuswide e-mail Monday afternoon.Clinton, who served two terms between 1993 and 2001, is delivering the inaugural memorial lecture for the Eli Segal Citizen Leadership Program, a new fellowship initiative for civic-minded undergraduates and graduate students within the Heller School for Social Policy and Management.

Admin bans new dance

by Jacob Kamaras | 09/11/2007

The administration canceled the Liquid Latex Club's fall dance, citing concerns that its provocative theme doesn't differ enough from the club's previously banned "Less you Wear, Less you Pay" dance, the club said.Last Friday the Department of Student Activities informed Liquid Latex, a campus performance art group, that it will not allow the group to follow through with its revised "Wear Anything But Clothes" dance scheduled for this Saturday, Liquid Latex said in a press release.After three students at last fall's "Less you Wear" dance were transported to the hospital for alcohol intoxication, the administration determined that the annual dance posed safety risks, and should be held in a different format."I really feel that we would have had drinking under control with the way the event was marketed and the amazing amount of oversight and attention on the event," Liquid Latex co-coordinator Scott Frost '09 said."I feel that we are not going far enough in the separation from the 'Less You Wear' dance and there has not been enough time for a culture change to occur," Director of Student Activities Stephanie Grimes wrote in an e-mail to Liquid Latex, which was sent to the Justice.

STAFF: University hires three new assistant coaches

by Jacob Kamaras | 09/04/2007

Brandeis bulked up its coaching lineup this year with the hiring of three new assistant coaches, including two recent college graduates and one former athlete who has now turned his focus to coaching.Kerry O'Malley joined the women's soccer team's staff, Alexis Accomando was added to the tennis team, and Scott VanKuilenburg joined the staff of the swimming and diving team.

John Kerry may address campus

by Jacob Kamaras | 09/04/2007

The University is waiting to confirm a date for Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. to speak about his new book on campus, Brandeis spokesperson Lorna Miles said.Brandeis hasn't yet heard back from Kerry's office regarding when the former presidential candidate will be able to present This Moment on Earth, a book he co-wrote with his wife Teresa Heinz, for the Meet the Author speaker series, Miles wrote in an e-mail to the Justice.In the book, which was released last March, the couple shows how environmental issues unite people across ideological, geographic and cultural lines through descriptions of the lives of environmental activists.

Univ tops fundraising record

by Jacob Kamaras | 08/28/2007

The University set a new fundraising record for the second straight year, despite earlier reports which predicted that some donors would withhold gifts because of former President Jimmy Carter's highly controversial visit to campus last January.

Playing the field

by Jacob Kamaras | 05/22/2007

Surrounded by crumpled snack wrappers and crushed beer cans in their common area, the residents of Mod 7 look like typical group of senior residents.

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