Innermost Parts

For a university reeling for a series of PR disasters on a national scale, this can’t be how Brandeis hoped to return to the news.  The vandalism at the Muslim Student Association lounge has been picked up by the Boston Herald, the Boston Globe, WCVB-TV Channel 5 Boston, the Huffington Post, and, for some reason, [...]

The front page of this week’s Justice has, as its lead article, a story about the Constitutional Review Committee’s final report.  The article is well-written, comprehensive, and informative, and it’s accompanied by a nice, eye-catching picture.  The problem is that I don’t think anyone cares.
The CRC is one of those topics that’s only interesting to [...]

Earlier today, Provost Marty Krauss released her decisions regarding the 18 proposals that the Brandeis 2020 Committe submitted to narrow Brandeis’s projected operating deficit.  With one minor alteration, she chose to accept them all, meaning that they all will go to the Board of Trustees for approval later this month.
I imagine that there are a [...]

Here are the results from yesterday’s secretary election:
Candidates,
Below are the election results for the primary round in the Secretary election:
As at Poll close: Wednesday 10 February 2010 00:44 EST
Number of voters: 499 · Group size: 3390 · Percentage voted: 14.72
Ranked by votes
Rank    Candidate              Votes      %
1   [...]

We have them late, but we do have them:
Rank Candidate Votes %
1 Jean Souffrant 62 77.50
2 ABSTAIN 12 15.00
3 Martin Luther King Jr 1 1.25
3 Neda Eid 1 1.25
3 Gideon Klionsky 1 1.25
3 Usman Hameedi 1 1.25
3 Dan Ding 1 1.25
3 Jonathan Ringvald 1 1.25
9 Denise fernandez 0 0.00
Congratulations to Senator JV Souffrant.

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 [...]