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Jamie Freed


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Senate defends new club bylaw at forum

Thursday, a mixed audience of approximately 70 students, club leaders, senators and administrators attended the Union Senate's first town hall forum of the semester, to discuss the new club chartering bylaw.The bylaw, passed in December, requires potential club leaders to obtain 200 signatures -- 20 from potential club members and 180 from students willing to support the club's existence -- rather than the previous standard of 10 signatures from potential members.Class of 2003 Senator Aziz Nekoukar moderated the forum.


Brandzel delivers State of the Union address

Dec. 6, Student Union President Ben Brandzel '03 delivered his biannual State of the Union address in the Shapiro Campus Center atrium.In his speech, he said the new campus center "represents the most significant addition to our campus in a generation," adding that it "recenters and in many ways redefines our campus, by providing a new hub for the work, activities and leisure of Brandeis students."Other campus changes Brandzel said he was pleased about included BTV's recent granting of Secured Allocations Funds.


Israeli divestment debate being ignored at Brandeis

Students and professors at universities across the country, including Harvard, MIT, Tufts, the University of Michigan and the University of California (UC) schools are looking to disinvest from Israeli corporations and American companies with Israeli investments.


South Africa faces AIDS epidemic

In the post-apartheid era, the growing AIDS problem and the lack of an academic, rather than vocational, education system is devastating for South African black children, Dr. Bhekinkhosi Sikhakhane, speaker at a Global AIDS Awareness Week lecture last Thursday, said.


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