EDITORIAL: Reflect on Lynch’s State of the University address
This past Saturday, Interim President Lisa Lynch hosted a State of the University talk designed to inform visiting parents about the University’s recent achievements.
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EDITORIAL: Reexamine Allocations Board funding process
On Wednesday, Oct. 14, the student Allocations Board released their yearly budget decisions, which included significantly reduced funding from what clubs requested and have received in previous years.
EDITORIAL: Review campus accessibility for the disabled
In a roundtable discussion last Thursday, students and staff discussed accessibility issues to University services and gathered suggestions about how to make the University more disability-friendly.
EDITORIAL: Encourage adjunct faculty unionization efforts
In 2011, according to the American Association of Universiy Professors, 70 percent of college faculty were contingent, non-tenure track professors, paid significantly less than their significantly smaller number of tenured colleagues.
EDITORIAL: Criticize exclusionary University ID card policy
In the first few weeks of the school year, students who live off-campus have been unpleasantly surprised to find out that their ID cards no longer allow them access to dorms and other campus housing spaces due to a change in the Rights and Responsibilities handbook.
EDITORIAL: Evaluate University Campus Climate Survey
The first results of the Brandeis Climate Survey on sexual misconduct were released last week. The findings are based on the responses of over 1,500 graduate and undergraduate students and provide insight into the scope of sexual misconduct among members of the community, as well as identify areas for the community’s concern and improvement. And indeed, many of the survey’s conclusions are more than unsettling.
EDITORIAL: Establish permanent Dharmic prayer center
The temporary Dharmic Prayer Center officially opened last night in the Shapiro Campus Center’s art gallery.
EDITORIAL: Increase transparency in Xfinity deal
On Sept. 11, Director of the Department of Community Living Tim Touchette sent an email out to the student body announcing that DCL had purchased Xfinity on Campus.
EDITORIAL: Reprimand Student Union's campaign process
In the first round of Student Union elections on Thursday, 10 new members of the Senate and one new Representative to the Brandeis Sustainability Fund were elected to their positions.
EDITORIAL: Inform students of unionization plans
This semester, non-tenure track faculty members will begin a publicity campaign as part of unionization efforts to join the Service Employees International Union local 509, located in Watertown, Mass.
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