Student volunteers rebuild in Mississippi
Driving down Route 90 through the area of Mississippi hit hardest last fall by Hurricane Katrina, nine Brandeis students looked to their right and saw an expansive vista of ocean and sand.
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Questions linger in assaults
As heightened police presence accompanied numerous TV news vans across campus, members of the Brandeis community reacted with caution to the assaults on students in the Village and Shapiro residence hall Dec.
Students assaulted in Village and Massell
Three female students reported they were assaulted in their dorm rooms early Saturday morning, according to Director of Public Safety Ed Callahan Charlotte Benham '07, who lives in the Village and wanted to be identified, told the Justice she was physically assaulted in her room by a white male, and three students in Shapiro Hall in Massell Quad reported an assailant of similar description entering their rooms about the same time, Callahan said.
Depts begin meetings with administrators
Three top University administrators plan to meet with faculty from each academic department this year to discuss issues concerning the implementation of the overall integrated planning initiative, Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe said.Jaffe said he, Provost Marty Krauss and Chief Operating Officer Peter French have already met with two departments: sociology and German, Russian and Asian languages and literature.Those meetings appear to reflect a shift in the administration's approach toward integrated planning, after Jaffe submitted a proposal for major academic reforms last year.
Signage project looks to transform campus into 'welcoming place'
The first phase of a plan to revamp campus signage began Monday with the start of work on the installation of 46 new signs along the peripheral road and central pedestrian walkways.Associate Vice President for Planning, Design and Construction Dan Feldman wrote in an e-mail to the Justice that the signage project came in response to repeated comments from visitors who had difficulty finding their way around campus."The President's goal, and [the goal of all those involved], has been to make the campus a welcoming place," he wrote.
Controversial artist no longer in consideration
Student Events rejected Jamaican dancehall artist Beenie Man as a possible opening act for the Talib Kweli concert after the organization learned this weekend that many of his songs contain anti-homosexual lyrics, according to Student Events officials."Once we found that out we said, 'No way, this is not what Brandeis is about, this is not what Student Events is about, this is not what this concert is about,'" Student Events Director of Major Entertainment Sharon Makowsky '06 said.
RIAA files suit against 8 students
The recording industry has a new target in the sights of its legal department: college students.Eight Brandeis students were among the 91 students at 33 schools across the country who found themselves in those sights last May when the Recording Industry Association of America, which represents most major record labels, announced a new wave of lawsuits against file-sharers hosting copyrighted music.Though the move was not by any means the first of its kind-hundreds of people have been sued in past years, many college students among them-it was only the second in which the accused were using a program called i2hub, which is used almost exclusively by college students.
Phi Beta Kappa inducts newest members at annual ceremony
Seventy-six students were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the national academic honor society, during a ceremony at the Spingold Theater last Saturday.The inductees included 68 seniors and eight juniors.
BBSO shows support for Bryant's tenure
A recommendation from Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe to deny tenure to Prof. Joan Bryant (AAAS) has been forwarded to Provost Marty Krauss, provoking a show of support for the professor from members of the Brandeis Black Students Organization.The recommendation came after a tenure application process that typically takes six to eight months.
History prof organizes petition on labor parity
The administration has begun to discuss directly employing more workers to replace subcontracted workers at ongoing collective bargaining negotiations with the Service Employees International Union in order to level the wages of all custodians working here.The discussions with SEIU, which represents the University's directly-employed workers, come as a result of the Brandeis Labor Coalition's campaign to raise the hourly wages of subcontracted custodial workers to the same rate as directly-employed workers.Those workers staff positions in an unpopular overnight shift created in the late-1990s that the University's employees have declined to fill.
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