After four years, Brandeis' influence shines through
My first year at Brandeis, Marta Kaufman '78, one of the co-creators of the television show Friends, came to speak at Brandeis.
Shana D. Lebowitz
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Sandwich smorgasbord
At the sandwich counter, the pressure is palpable. Some students falter, stutter, repeat part of their order and then start all over again.
Four key administrators to leave the University
Correction appended; see bottomFour key Brandeis administrators, including Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Peter French, will depart this academic year.
First-year frenzy
Neatly stacked plastic crates, cardboard boxes of electronics and a rainbow of towels, sheets and prepurchased textbooks slowly crept out from all corners of the campus.
Neighboring community protests Ayers' campus visit
Students from Brandeis University and Babson and Bentley Colleges, as well as Waltham residents, protested against the controversial visit of Bill Ayers, co-founder of the Weather Underground and professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago April 30.
AAAS students pass resolution against proposal
Students and faculty expressed resentment with the Curriculum and Academic Restructuring Steering committee's proposal to convert the African and Afro-American Studies department to an interdisciplinary program and worried about threatening the status of a department established 40 years ago in the wake of the Ford Hall takeover.
New research guide is online
The Student Union announced in an e-mail April 17 the creation of an online research guide listing all the research opportunities in different academic departments and research centers at Brandeis, according to an April 17 e-mail.
Thanksgiving break extended
The University will cancel classes on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving "on an experimental basis" during the 2010 to 2011 and 2011 to 2012 academic years in response to consistently low attendance rates, according to University President Jehuda Reinharz.Reinharz made the decision to change the schedule at last week's faculty meeting.
A slightly different kind of liberal
Martin Peretz '59, editor in chief of The New Republic magazine, has the kind of presence that grows more intimidating with time.
A Cappella Etc. can receive funds from F-Board
CORRECTION APPENDED SEE BOTTOMThe Union Senate voted to charter A Cappella Etc., the umbrella group for all 11 campus a cappella groups, led by Dan Newman '09 and David Baumgold '10.
Boston’s West End: The spirit of a neighborhood destroyed
Paige Bueckers: A Special Talent
Jewish students are not a monolith. Brandeis must stop treating us like one.
A local Waltham organization works to uphold democracy
Doxxing has no place at Brandeis