Author: elly


Posted on: January 19th, 2012

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Category: Activism, Brandeis Values, Elly, I get email, Petition, Student Union, Take Action, The Public Good

Brandeis has a pool again!  As President Rosen's latest e-mail announces, "the Linsey Pool at Brandeis University is back up and running," with an opening ceremony scheduled for this Saturday. This is a great accomplishment! Here's to the petitions members of the Brandeis community created, the e-mails they sent, the articles they wrote, the surveys they [...]

Author: elly


Posted on: January 12th, 2012

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Category: Brandeis Values, Elly, environment, Experiential Learning, I get email, Take Action, Transparency

Best of luck to Audra Grady and Thank You for all the work you've done to expand the Experiential Learning program and more. Welcome and Congratulations to Lexi Kriss, whom I know to be a passionate activist, as well as a good improvisor! To the Brandeis community, Audra Grady, the Experiential Learning Program Administrator, will [...]

The Brandeis Office of Study Abroad sent out an e-mail yesterday to students returning from studying abroad. "Brandeis has been offered the opportunity to have our students (YOU!) participate in a pre- and post-experience assessment survey in a study on the effects of study abroad.  This study is funded by the Teagle Foundation and is [...]

Since 1929, the FBI has defined rape as "carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will." Many have protested this narrow definition for its gender-specificity and focus on physical force over the years. Now, CNN reports, the Justice Department released a statement saying they will be updating and broadening the definition. "The crime of rape [...]

"Today [January 4th] in Dallas, Texas, Rickey Dale Wyatt was cleared after spending 31 years in prison for a crime that he didn’t commit." I love getting these kinds of e-mails from the Innocence Project. They tell me about their clients, prisoners serving time, who they have helped exonerate through the use of DNA evidence. [...]

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