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A demonstration was held on the Great Lawn yesterday by about 85 students citing a number of grievances related to students’ rights. The demonstration, organized to coincide with Open House, lasted an hour. After five minutes of silence, individual students spoke on a variety of issues, including the pending appeals of suspended TYP student Mamoon […]
The University Board of Appeals dismissed one set of charges against TYP student Mamoon Darwish at a hearing on April 8. “The fact that I appealed an administrative decision and then won the appeal is a big issue because it’s something new to the Brandeis community,” Darwish wrote in an e-mail to The Hoot. Darwish […]
In Lown auditorium late Sunday night, presidential candidate and former senator Mike Gravel gave a brief speech, followed by an impassioned talk with students on topics such as the National Initiative for Democracy, the 2008 campaign, the Senator’s recent switch from the Democratic to the Libertarian Party, global warming, and the military industrial complex. Sen. […]
Faculty members at the April 10, 2008 Faculty Senate meeting, voted in favor of changing the current probation policy. Dean of Arts and Sciences, Adam Jaffe, presented the motion to change the policy and explained what those changes would mean. Under the newly changed policy, a student whose cumulative GPA is above 2.000 and receives […]
Student Union Treasurer Choon Woo Ha ’08 announced that the student body will vote on how to spend a portion of the $260,000 of rollover funds that the Student Union has accumulated at his State of Finance address Monday night. The $260,000 in rollover monies is comprised of money left unspent by clubs and money […]
In addition to the hoards of prospective students and their parents, the Great Lawn was also the site of a student demonstration during yesterday’s Open House. The demonstration was organized to “bring justice back to Brandeis,” according to one of the signs a student was holding. The demonstration deserves respect for its success in drawing […]
Spring has sprung, which means that the Brandeis campus is filled with sprightly prospective students, coming from as far away as Westchester and Newton to tour our concrete paths. For most of us, seeing “prospies” is a painful experience—we see ourselves reflected in their pasty faces and beady eyes and we know that we are […]
On this day in 1961, the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann began in Jerusalem. Pictures of these proceedings are among the most recognizable in the history of photojournalism—the three judges sitting atop a high dais with Eichmann below in a bulletproof booth, headphones around his ears to hear the translation. There is something […]
Over the past two years, I have had the pleasure of living, learning, and growing up in this most venerable of institutions, Brandeis University. I have built a life of commitment to learning, not just as a good in and of itself, but as a tool to understanding, appreciating, loving, and recognizing ourselves as integral […]
There is no doubt that atheists in the United States form a persecuted minority. From general public opinion to specific Constitutional prohibitions, there are many barriers preventing atheists from equal recognition as American citizens, opportunities for holding public office, and the protections of civil rights legislation which defend other religious groups. However, in many ways, […]
