Happy New Year Brandeis! I hope you have all had a wonderful and joyous start to your new year! President Lawrence gave a warm greeting to the Brandeis community and a call to alumni to revisit the campus. He also will be keeping a blog here starting next semester. I wanted to share his first [...]
Posted on: September 11th, 2010
Category: Activism, Adam, Context and Connections, National Issues, News, Protect the Powerless, Take Action
In 2009, Brandeis University awarded Marty Peretz its Alumni Achievement Award. He’s featured in the Alumni Snapshots section of our website, under a heading praising him for “Leading the Intellectual Inquiry”. He’s the editor-in-chief of the New Republic, and we use his name repeatedly to promote the university. So what has he done recently to [...]
Marty Peretz, class of ’59, is kind of a big deal. He’s the owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, a prominent magazine with a proud legacy. Brandeis certainly thinks highly of him: he keeps popping up on the website, and we just gave him the Alumni Achievement Award in 2009. Problem is, he just [...]
I’m really busy so I have to keep this short. Something really amazing is going to happen on Wednesday. On Wednesday and Thursday Professor Cunningham is inviting a bunch of amazing Brandeis alumni for a panel on social action. It’ll be great. Noon, Brown auditorium (thats in the building near Pearlman and Usdan). Go! But [...]
Posted on: February 15th, 2009
Category: Adam, Budget Crisis, Context and Connections, The Public Good
It’s no secret that Brandeis’s fundraising is much too slow right now and that the Madoff scheme is a big reason why. The failing economy would be a huge handicap on it’s own, but dealing with the greatest theft in history targeted mostly toward our greatest donor base has made our situation critical. We know [...]
