Union eliminates $700 in cash prizes attached to yearly teaching awards
The Student Union's Teaching Award will no longer come with a cash prize after the Union Senate voted to amend its bylaws.
Tejas Kumar
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East residents wait for hill improvements
New safety features that Vice President for Campus Operations Mark Collins said would be in place on East Quad Hill by the start of this semester have not yet been added.Collins and Student Union officials say a railing will be put in place within the next few weeks.
Clergy organize peace vigils
The Brandeis Chaplaincy held the first of its planned weekly peace vigils with about 20 members of the community on Tuesday at the Peace Memorial near the Usdan Student Center.
BTV pledges to broadcast first original program so far this academic year
CORRECTION APPENDED (SEE BELOW)BTV:65, the student television station that has been without original programming since the beginning of the academic year, will begin airing new episodes of its news program next month, according to the station's leaders.The amount of training and time-commitment involved in broadcasting has made it difficult to recruit the necessary crew for the station to start programming earlier, said Avi Swerdlow '10, the executive producer and director of BTV News, the station's original news broadcast that was formerly called the Beat.
UCC rejects possible changes to pass/fail
The proposal to raise the requirement needed to earn a passing grade in a course taken pass/fail, which the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee recently considered, was rejected, according to a UCC representative.The UCC discussed a few options, including raising the minimum passing grade for a course taken pass/fail to a C-, to encourage students taking pass/fail classes to take them more seriously.
Following hospitalization, student leaves University
A student who was severely injured after being cut by glass on Reitman Hall last month has voluntarily withdrawn from the University, his hallmates said.
Brandeis celebrates its namesake
With swing dancers jiving to the White Heat Orchestra, overflowing drinks and prizes, it was a time for festivity as Brandeis celebrated its namesake Louis Brandeis' 150th birthday on Monday evening at the Shapiro Campus Center.The event, attended by hundreds of students, faculty and staff, was part of a year-long celebration planned by the University to honor and celebrate the life of Justice Brandeis.The Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Margaret Marshall, who was the keynote speaker at the event, lauded Brandeis' influence on American law."It is impossible to overestimate Justice Brandeis' significance to our nation," she said.
Free-speech law experts discuss Brandeis' legal influence
Two prominent legal scholars well-versed in free speech law celebrated the 150th birthday of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis Monday evening with a discussion on Brandeis' legal influence and the need for the application of many of his ideas in government today.The scholars, Floyd Abrams and Anthony Lewis, spoke to a crowd of about 150 attendees who packed the Napoli Room in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center.
Registry for war opposers opens on campus
The Peace, Conflict and Coexistence Program and the Chaplaincy opened a registry for those morally opposed to war Thursday following a program celebrating the life of Mohandas Gandhi and the nonviolent style of activism he championed.Advocates for nonviolence from around the region spoke to a crowd of about 25 people in Gluck Lobby in the Usdan Student Center.Lewis Randa, the founding director of the Peace Abbey activist retreat in Sherborn, Mass., unveiled the registry, which will allow members of the Brandeis community to declare their support for nonviolence by signing their names in the presence of two witnesses.Randa said he believes the registry will reinforce the importance of nonviolence in the minds of those who sign it.
WBRS feels impact of deep funding cuts
CORRECTION APPENDED (see bottom)In the wake of reforms to the club funding system that were passed by student vote last semester, WBRS, the campus radio station, has seen its budget cut by about 41 percent.Hadar Sayfan '07, WBRS' general manager, was astonished at the dip in funding her group has experienced."We got cut more than we were expecting, which came as an unpleasant surprise," Sayfan wrote in an e-mail to the Justice.
Brandeis Jewish Bund holds protest to go “All out for Palestine”
Boston’s West End: The spirit of a neighborhood destroyed
Jewish students are not a monolith. Brandeis must stop treating us like one.
2025 Commencement speakers announced
President Levine on plans to improve the University