President Jehuda Reinharz today sent out a letter to the Brandeis community, detailing the committee that would choose his successor. The goods: Trustee Meyer Koplow ’72, managing partner at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz in New York, will chair the search committee. Other Trustee members of the committee will be Allen Alter ’71, Senior Producer [...]
What if Baan Thai* refused to serve black students? A bunch of seniors from Washington University went to a traditional class trip to a nightclub in Chicago, and the black students were refused entry for clearly racist reasons. Prejudice – it could happen to you.
…your new dorm building is named after coal. The CEO of Alliance of Coal, Joseph Craft, donated money for a new men’s basketball dorm at the University of Kentucky, on the stipulation that it be named after coal. The Board of Trustees voted 16-3 to approve the new dorm; of the three “no” votes, one [...]
I’m excited. Labor Notes, a great source of news regarding the US labor movement, is online. Students interested in unions and organized labor would be well-served by checking it out.
Can we agree that it’s kind of ridiculous that Brandeis is hosting a huge event where Judge Goldstone, respected International Jurist and member of the Brandeis community, is going to “debate” Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations? This setup implicitly creates a dichotomy where Mr. Gold is said to represent the “Pro-Israel [...]
A few years ago, Jimmy Carter was invited to Brandeis to discuss his new book that criticized Israel. Jehuda and his administration not only tried to sabotage his coming, not only forced him to “debate” Alan Dershowitz (in the interests of “balance”), but Jehuda pointedly refused to welcome a distinguished former President. A little more [...]
