Good Afternoon Brandeis! When I opened my e-mail, on the top of the list was Marty W. Krauss’s e-mail about the new block scheduling program. From the report here is a quick list of the changes (full outline at bottom). – Less MWT classes – More TF, MW classes – Classes start on the hour! […]
To the Brandeis Community: The Brandeis administration’s choice of Michael Oren as this year’s commencement speaker has brought division to what should be a unifying event. If you are upset about this choice and would like an opportunity to voice your opinion, come to a demonstration against campus division tomorrow beginning at 4:45 p.m between […]
At today’s meeting, the Board of Trustees will make the final vote on the Brandeis 2020 Committee proposals that Provost Marty Krauss approved earlier this month. So far, I think the process has gone as well as we could hope for, and I generally approve of the decisions that the Committee made. However, one program […]
Before my title deceives you, I unfortunately missed Bill Ayers’ lecture on Thursday, and I have no idea what he talked about. He might have brought up the idea of student autonomy; chances are he didn’t. The event itself, however, sure told us a lot about the freedom we enjoy as Brandeis students — and […]
I just got around to reading the Justice’s article about the State of the Union today, and one thing in particular really jumped out at me: “I think his speech was one of the most outstanding you can imagine from a student leader,” said Rena Olshansky ’56, a member of the Board of Trustees’ Students […]
In the wake of the Finance Board’s marathon decisions, a lot of clubs have been wondering why they got so little money compared to previous semesters. It’s not the budget situation — the Union Activities Fee is fixed and thus divorced from the budget cuts. So why is everyone getting less than usual? Here’s the […]
As details of our financial situation have come out, it has become apparent that Brandeis is in worse shape than many other universities. There are several well-known reasons for this. Our relative youth means our endowment is much smaller than most institutions of similar standing. The Madoff scandal affected our donor base much more heavily […]
