For at least this semester, the Punk, Rock n' Roll Club will occupy an office space in the Shapiro Campus Center that was made available in November by the Office of Student Activities.The group beat out Students Talking about Relationships and Top Score in the application process, which gave them access to Conference Hall D, on the third floor of Shapiro.
Residents of East Quad concerned by the steep path leading to it will have to wait some time for a permanent solution.In the meantime, the University will try to make the hill safe for this winter, a senior administrator said.The Office of University Services will add a new coat of asphalt to the steep hill and build a third railing along the middle of the path this month, Vice President for Campus Operations Mark Collins said.
The Department of Residence Life is considering various options for dealing with the impending housing shortage that will occur after the demolition of Ridgewood Quad this summer, which will result in the loss of 109 beds.To accommodate the most undergraduates on campus, Director of Residence Life Richard DeCapua said, the University is considering placing undergraduates in some Charles River Apartments, which are currently designated for graduate students.Other options include changing the class-designations of Residence Halls, such as placing more sophomores in first-year dorms and reevaluating the number of lofted triples for first-year students.
One student group looking for permanent meeting and work space has a chance to take over a conference room in the Shapiro Campus Center, according to a Student Activities official.
In an effort to curb academic dishonesty, professors will begin utilizing an online plagiarism-detection service on a trial basis next semester, an LTS official said.Turnitin.com, a commercial Web service professors used to determine if a student's paper bears any similarity to other sources, will be available to Brandeis professors in response to growing concerns of student plagiarism.
A chorus of cries rang out in the Shapiro Campus Center Atrium Thursday night as about 30 students reacted to their release from a day of silence in protest of racial prejudice.The students wore black tape over their mouths during classes and throughout the day in an effort to show solidarity with those unable to speak out about discrimination and racism.
Negative campaign advertisements may not always be as effective as campaign strategists and the public think, but veteran political analyst David Mark '95 believes this popular campaign strategy is nevertheless going to become even more frequent in the future.Mark,the author of Going Dirty: The Art of Negative Campaigning, returned to his alma mater Wednesday as part of the "Meet the Author" series to discuss his book in the Shapiro Campus Center Atrium.His visit came 13 days before the midterm election and amid an intense television-ad war between Massachusetts gubernatorial candidates Deval Patrick (D) and Lt.
Library and Technology Services this month doubled the number of channels available on Internet Protocol Television, the University's online television service, and it no longer considers the service to be experimental, officials said.LTS officials stressed that the future of the project depends, for the most part, on student feedback and financial considerations.Comedy Central, CNN, Fox, MTV, The Food Network, TBS and the Japanese Channel were all added to the IPTV lineup for this semester.
With plans to convert an empty space in the Village into a home for the Activist Resource Center off the table, leaders of that club are now working with administrators to secure a new space.University administrators said renovating the room into a home for the ARC would be too costly.
The administration is collaborating with TransBrandeis, a division of Triskelion, to consider not labeling certain campus restrooms with a designated gender.TransBrandeis Director M.
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