So, unknown to most of the Brandeis campus, voting has opened for the position of Senator for Racial Minorities. So, vote, if you want. Except (because no Union election can ever run smoothly) you can observe that no candidates are listed as officially running on the Union site. Once you get into the bigpulse voting [...]
About a week and a half ago, Brandeis saw something that had never happened before. Several Public Safety officers responded to an on-campus incident by drawing their firearms, the first time that has happened since the guns were issued last June. After the fierce debates over arming campus police last year, there’s been surprisingly little [...]
Posted on: May 4th, 2009
Category: Adam, Budget Crisis, Context and Connections, Honesty, The Public Good
“BRANDEIS IS NOT CLOSING THE ROSE AND SELLING ALL THE ARTWORK.” Words and italics from them, bold and caps from yours truly. If you’re going to take anything from the interim report of the Future of the Rose Committee, make it that. We’ve sat and listened as the Rose first was closed, then open for [...]
Before my title deceives you, I unfortunately missed Bill Ayers’ lecture on Thursday, and I have no idea what he talked about. He might have brought up the idea of student autonomy; chances are he didn’t. The event itself, however, sure told us a lot about the freedom we enjoy as Brandeis students — and [...]
Today is Andy Hogan’s second full day on the job as Student Union President, and despite this high-profile position, I feel he’s still something of an unknown quantity to much of the student body, much more so than Jason Gray was last year. There are several reasons for this: the Presidential race was much less [...]
