Music lovers of varying ages and walks of life united to celebrate the illustrious career of Gato Barbieri-the Argentine soccer player-turned Latin-jazz sensation-at the dimly-lit Regattabar at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge Thursday night.
The student senate's advocacy committee is currently tackling a set of new initiatives to enhance the quality of student life.Initiatives include the extension of C-store hours, the construction of a road between the Massell Quad driveway and the three chapels to decrease walking distance, and supporting the interests of sports clubs, committee chair Ezra Stark '05 said. "We are extending hours to make it [the C-Store] more convenient for them," Stark said.
Rabbi Marc Golub, a former mental health counselor and spiritual leader who had sex with a female client while working for a Virginia mental health treatment center from 1996 to 1997, appeared on campus last week and asked students to participate in an interfaith text study not sanctioned by Brandeis Hillel or any regional Jewish organization.
The 10 winners of the Brandeis Achievement Award, a $5,000 per semester scholarship awarded for service to the Brandeis community, were notified on Jan.
Brandeis students are ensuring that tsunami relief efforts aren't just left to the professionals.A month after the tsunami's initial impact in South Asia, students say they are making progress with their own aid projects.Hillel, the Intercultural Center, Waltham Group and BTV:65 held a fund-raiser several weeks ago that raised $217.Edgar Ndjatou '06, who planned the fundraiser with Jacob Kim '06, said the process is collaborative and ongoing, bringing in as many campus groups as possible."We contacted several organizations on campus and we had tables set up in the atrium and we had people donate and sign up," Ndjatou said.Kim, who is also part of a committee of graduate students, undergraduate students and Residence Life staff said that though the financial support of the community will ensure some degree of fiscal security for the region, the real issue lies in long-term recovery."The committee ... is planning events semester-long because we want to continue to give to the victims throughout their recovery," Kim said.
For Heller School Adjunct Professor Jehan Raheem, a winter vacation trip to a Sri Lankan beach resort transformed within seconds into an unforgettable encounter with the horrific face of the tsunami disaster and, subsequently, into a relief mission.A few of Raheem's distant cousins were vacationing in the south of Sri Lanka that Sunday and they perished in the incident.
David Elwell, the director of the International Students and Scholars Office, said that according to available information, none of the 86 Brandeis students from South Asia were directly impacted by the deadly earthquake and ensuing tsunami that struck Dec.
Benjamin Bradlee, the vice president-at-large of The Washington Post, spoke to students and faculty on Dec.
In its first issue published last week, Lies, a new student magazine, printed an article about members of sororities, which some readers found offensive toward women.
After Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe presented his proposal for restructuring the curriculum at a special faculty meeting on Oct.
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