No arrests were made last week in the investigation of a Jan. 18 e-mail that threatened a "planned terrorist attack" against the University, Director of Public Safety Ed Callahan said.
Khalil Shikaki, a senior fellow at the University's Crown Center for Middle East Studies, has been accused of having ties to a Palestinian terrorist organization.
Human rights activist Prof. Kanan Makiya (IMES) has spent most of the last four years in his native Iraq gathering evidence and accounts of human rights abuses committed under Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party regime.
Fourteen people, including 11 Brandeis students, were displaced Monday morning after a kitchen fire broke out at their three-story South Street residence.
A faculty committee has recommended that assistant professors on the tenure track receive an optional additional year "to get their portfolios together" before coming up for tenure review, according to the unanimous report submitted to University Provost Marty Krauss on Nov.
A sprinkler head on the sixth floor of Pomerantz Hall in East Quad burst on Sunday evening, causing at least several hundred gallons of water to flood the hall and residents' rooms.Several students playing football hit a sprinkler head in the middle of the hall, activating the sprinkler system and fire alarm, Director of Residence Life Maggie Balch said Sunday, as facilities workers drained water.East Quad Director Megan Drangstveit said members of the administration would meet Tuesday to determine where financial responsibility for the damage would fall.Rooms in the middle of the sixth floor were flooded, but the outer edges of the hall stayed dry.
Brandeis hosted the first ever Campus Camp Wellstone social activism training seminar for New England area students this weekend.
Working with Hurricane Katrina evacuees will be a course requirement for some students next semester.Students who enroll this spring in Social Change in American Communities: Memory and Cultural Production in the Mississippi Delta (SOC 156A) with Profs.
Brandeis hosted the first ever Campus Camp Wellstone social activism training seminar for New England area students this weekend.
"The loss is very personal and very profound. My family members have lost their homes," said Rabbi Allan Lehmann, a native of New Orleans.
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