Igor Zhukovsky '09 took his own life at the age of 22 on May 7.A public safety officer discovered Zhukovsky during safety rounds in Charles River Lot, according to Director of Public Safety Ed Callahan.
Bill Ayers, co-founder of the radical protest group the Weather Underground and a professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, spoke about what it means to be an active citizen to an audience that mostly consisted of students in Carl J.
Senior commencement speaker Ron Kendler '09, who was selected from among five finalists to deliver the student speech, emphasized Brandeis University's communal culture in his address to the graduating class of 2009.
The Transitional Year Program will be applied to the Class of 2013 as a conditional admit program, meaning that TYP students will no longer have to reapply to enroll at the University if they demonstrate academic merit and will no longer be automatically provided with a full scholarship, according to the program's director.TYP Director Erika Smith wrote in an e-mail to the Justice that the University will no longer be obligated to provide TYP students with a full scholarship because "the new approach will enable TYP students to access federal, state, and private funds to meet all the costs of attendance." She wrote that TYP students will now be able to access financial aid from outside sources because they will be enrolled as degree-seeking students.
The Genetic Counseling Program, a Master of Science program, will be accommodated on the upper floor of the Gerstenzang Library since the Kalman science building, in which it is currently accommodated, will come down this year, according to Provost Marty Krauss."Though the specific plans are not yet finalized, the space will include offices for the Genetic Counseling Program faculty, a dedicated classroom for the Program, a Commons area for students in the Program and a conference room that will be used for a number of different undergraduate and graduate classes," Director of the Genetic Counseling Program Judith Tsipis (BIOL) wrote in an e-mail to the Justice.
The Block Scheduling Committee, composed of faculty, staff and students, has proposed that more biweekly courses that are 80 minutes long in session should be scheduled during the week than triweekly courses that are 50 minutes long per session, according to a campuswide e-mail sent by Provost Marty Krauss on April 9.
The Committee on Faculty Rights and Responsibilities will start hearing faculty grievances again after endorsing a joint statement with the Faculty Senate and the University administration at last Thursday's faculty meeting, according to CFRR member Aida Wong (FA). The statement elaborates upon the roles of the CFRR, the dean and the provost with regard to the Faculty Handbook.According to the statement, "If the Academic Dean rejects a specific judgment of the CFRR, he or she must give a substantive reason for the rejection, fully and fairly addressing the arguments made by the CFRR in support of its opinion." Grounds for rejecting an opinion of the CFRR cannot be cited as precedent in future cases, according to the statement.
The University is considering ways to replace the upper floor of Gerstenzang Library with classrooms in order to accommodate academic programs that need to be relocated due to the closing of the Kalman and Friedland science buildings scheduled for later this year, according to Provost Marty Krauss.Krauss stated that while the science library will not close, it may not continue to exist on both floors.
University President Jehuda Reinharz will ask the Board of Trustees for an additional $2 million from the University reserves of $85 million to help close the $5 million budget deficit in fiscal 2009, thereby adding $2 million to the projected budget gap in fiscal 2010, he said at last Thursday's faculty meeting.
GrayCurrent Student Union President Jason Gray '10 will not run for a second term in the upcoming Union elections and will not hold an official role in the Union after a new Union president is elected next month, he said.Gray announced his decision tnot to run for president at the beginning of last Sunday's Senate meeting.
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