Author: Phil LaCombe


Posted on: February 25th, 2010

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Category: Democracy, National Issues, News, Phil

A collaborative effort of Brandeis clubs including Democracy for America, the College Democrats, the Activist Resource Center, and Gen Ed Now has successfully secured a deal to bring Howard Dean to campus.  He will speak on April 15 at 8pm in Levin Ballroom.  The event will be open to the Brandeis community. Howard Dean, a [...]

Author: Sahar


Posted on: February 23rd, 2010

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Category: Sahar

There’s a cool bit of Brandeis lore I want to share with you. Apologies if you already heard it before. So, the housing lottery is kinda strange. It’s hard to know who has a good number, what sort of housing your number might net you, to look for others with good numbers you might want [...]

Author: elly


Posted on: February 23rd, 2010

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Category: Budget Crisis, Diversity and Multiculturalism, Elly, News, The Public Good

Just in case you guys ignore most of the e-mails you get from the Student Union and Provost, here’s a link to the short, 8-page report made by the Brandeis 2020 Curricular and Academic Restructuring Steering (CARS) Committee: http://www.brandeis.edu/provost/adhoc/Brandeis2020_rpt_22Feb2010.pdf Oh, and the even more succinct summary: http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2010/february/2020report.html To oversimplify, the report was designed to suggest [...]

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Author: Comrade


Posted on: February 22nd, 2010

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Category: Budget Crisis, Honesty, News

Pres. Reinharz has office hours only about once every month.   Today at 9:18am I got an email saying that his office hours which were to be held from 11am-12:30pm were to be canceled “due to unforeseen circumstances”. Anyway, today  is also the day that the University is to release the recommendations of the Brandeis 2020/ [...]

Author: Sahar


Posted on: February 12th, 2010

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Category: News, Sahar

In a stunning show of support, students overwhelmingly voted for for former- (and now, future-) Union Secretary, Diana Aronin. Diana was impeached by the Senate (and the Judiciary unanimously voted to approve) for some bullshit. The Union Senate (as well as perhaps the Union Judiciary) have just been handed a giant slap in the face [...]

Author: Lev


Posted on: February 10th, 2010

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Category: Democracy, Honesty, Lev, The Public Good

No, really, fuck the Student Union. In this post, I will thoroughly bash the Student Union. I’ll offer my insight as a former Union insider and then conclude with some ideas on how to make it better. This will be a long post, but the jist of it can be summarized in the title. For [...]

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