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Controversial Kushner: The artist as truth-teller

by Rachel Marder | 05/23/2006

It is difficult keeping up with Tony Kushner. A quick-witted and fast-paced speaker, Kushner is widely acknowledged as one of the most prestigious contemporary American playwrights, known best for his Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, and his Academy Award-nominated screenplay for the film Munich.The University's decision to present Kushner with an honorary degree this year generated widespread media attention and criticism from Zionist student groups and outside organizations, who say Kushner called Israel's founding "a mistake." They say former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, the University's namesake and a major American Zionist figure, would not have approved.Kushner spoke at the Spingold Theater Sunday afternoon, entertaining graduates and their guests at the creative arts graduation ceremony and frequently throwing them into fits of hysterics."If you've been reading the papers, you know I was not invited here because of my political opinions, but my art," he said, to applause.

Brandeis, and a growing movement, march on Washington

by Rachel Marder | 05/02/2006

WASHINGTON-It's 10 p.m. last Thursday night, and a packed bus of energized college students is slowly making its way here for a national rally to call for an immediate end to the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, where an estimated 400,000 have been murdered by the government, which began carrying out a genocide on the ethnic-African population in 2003.The students on the bus come from Brandeis, Harvard, Simmons College and area high schools.

Language depts want more profs

by Rachel Marder | 03/14/2006

Following an extensive review of the University language departments, professors said what the departments need most is more faculty.Reviews by outside committees revealed the need for more faculty and greater collaboration between language departments.

Police say they should be armed

by Rachel Marder | 03/07/2006

University police officers say the policy that keeps them unarmed hinders their ability to protect the community.Three officers, who were granted anonymity because they feared disciplinary action, said that as police officers certified by the state and trained to operate firearms, they should be allowed to do their jobs armed.

BEMCo granted ambulance license

by Rachel Marder | 02/14/2006

A state medical authority granted a license to the Brandeis Emergency Medical Corps this month to operate as an ambulance service, allowing the campus EMT group to serve as a resource during city and state medical emergencies, Director of Public Safety Ed Callahan said.

Questions arise over faculty hiring

by Rachel Marder | 02/14/2006

The faculty senate last semester found that University Provost Marty Krauss acted outside her authority by granting tenure to two contract faculty members without first conducting a nation-wide search, according to senate minutes.

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