Finance board member Jordan Rothman '09 said the other six members of the Board, which distributes funds to chartered groups, have requested his resignation and have hinted they may begin impeachment proceedings.Impeachment would require the approval of two-thirds of the Union Senate.
Last Saturday's scheduled trial run for a shuttle to Brookline was postponed until next semester because of low ticket sales, an administrator said.
Over 30 people gathered in the Shapiro Campus Center Atrium Thursday, on the eve of World AIDS Day, to hear author Michael McColly talk about his struggle with HIV.
An evaluation team from the New England Association for Schools and Colleges completed its three-day visit to campus Wednesday and will now begin work on its assessment of the University.
The Rev. Alice Brown-Collins, who served as the interim Protestant Chaplain beginning in 2001, said she left the University last May because she felt unappreciated by the administration.In her letter of resignation to Senior Vice President of Students and Enrollment Jean Eddy, Brown-Collins wrote that she had not received a raise in five years and did not apply to be the Protestant chaplain "considering the insecurity of the past position." Brown-Collins came to Brandeis in 1994 as a professor in the Afro-African American Studies Department and became the interim Protestant chaplain in 2001.
Student leaders of Positive Foundations, an activist club aiming to change the world through a set of goals set by the United Nations, brought a crowd of about 350 people to its feet on the Great Lawn Sunday afternoon as part of a worldwide campaign to fight poverty.The focal point of the event occurred at 4:40 p.m., when participants at rallies in over 100 countries stood up in unison in an attempt to achieve the Guinness World Record for the most people standing up against poverty.From the steps of the Shapiro Campus Center, Sam Vaghar '08, a Positive Foundation coordinator, led attendees in chanting "unity stops poverty" ten times before rising from their seats on the wet grass."We wish to set a record today for the number of people standing up to demand action on poverty," Vaghar told the crowd, "but the record we really want to break is the world's record of breaking promises and just ignoring the poor."Vaghar spoke of the importance of achieving the Millennium Development Goals, a set of objectives established by the United Nations six years ago.
The widow of a man who died during the Sept. 11th attacks spoke Wednesday evening at Brandeis about the charity bike ride she organized to honor her late husband.Susan Retik addressed over a dozen people at the Women's Studies Research Center for "Cycling Forward to Afghanistan: A Sept.
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