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Archive for October 3rd, 2008
Exploring a blog’s ‘Innermost Parts’
On Sept. 18, Phil Lacombe ’10 wrote a post on the blog www.innermostparts.org entitled “A great day for Brandeis Progressives.” Lacombe’s post, written the day Adam Hughes ’11 was elected Vice-President of the Student Union, started, “It’s a great day for the Progressive Party (if you can call it that.).” He continued to say that […]
University faces $10 million budget shortfall
President Jehuda Reinharz announced that the university faces a $10 million dollar shortfall for the 2009 fiscal year at Thursday’s Faculty Senate meeting. The current economic downturn “obviously affects all of us,” Reinharz said, “universities are experiencing particular challenges.” “As we were closing the 2008 budget and planning for 2009, we knew things weren’t looking […]
Union starts student rights office
Student Union President Jason Gray ’10 announced the creation of the Student Union Office of Student Rights and Advocacy in an e-mail to the student body Wednesday night. “In the past few years, it has come to our attention that there is a need to provide more information about students’ rights on campus,” Gray wrote. […]
Students Crossing Boundaries creates fellowship program
Following their trip to Israel and the West Bank last February, Students Crossing Boundaries will release an application for their revamped program Tuesday. Last year, 11 students, including Students Crossing Boundaries founder Justin Kang ’09, went on a 10-day trip over February break to various sites throughout Israel and the West Bank in order to […]
Letters to the editor:
To the Editor: Your Sept. 26 article entitled “New club aims to ease Brandeis Waltham tensions” has misinformation that I would like to clarify. I do not blame Brandeis’ social scene on “the police overstepp[ing] their rights in dealing with students”; the police are doing their jobs by stopping transgressions. Some officers have overstepped their […]
Know your rights before you fight
In the wake of on-campus controversies from the Gravity Magazine incident to the Mamoon Darwish case, it seems that the rights of Brandeis students have become increasingly unclear. Each incident raises new questions about the boundaries of free speech, safety, due process and more. The recent creation of the Student Union Office of Student Rights […]
