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Archive for November 14th, 2008
Union Senate to vote on bicycle sharing money resolution Sunday
The Special Task Force on Bicycle Sharing (STFBS) will present a money request to the Student Union Senate on Sunday for a sum between $1,000 and $1,500 to fund the long anticipated ‘Deis Bikes rental program, which would provide bike rentals to Brandeis students free of charge. The request will be presented to the Senate […]
Prospect Hill tutoring program suspended
Brandeis University has suspended its tutoring programs for elementary school children at the Prospect Hill Community Center partly due to budget constraints, Academic Director of Community-Engaged Learning Prof. Mark Auslander (ANTH) said. Jocelyn Dorfman ’10, a student coordinator for the community center, explained in an e-mail message, “we are going to enter a re-planning and […]
Doctor without borders describes experience in Chad
What would it feel like to serve as the only doctor for 30,000 refugees? To be confined within one city block for months? To live in total disconnect from the rest of the world?
Dr. Marc Levin ’94 recounted his humanitarian work with Doctors Without Borders or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) through a select presentation of photographs depicting his experiences in Chad.
Dr. Levin attended medical school at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY, and graduated in 1998. He currently holds faculty positions in the Department of Family and Social Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and in the Beth Israel Residency in Urban Family Practice in New York City.
Before getting into current issues in global health and discussing his journey with MSF, Levin started his presentation by offering some career and life advice to the audience of undergraduates.
“Success comes by doing what you love,” said Levin. He demonstrated throughout his speech that he loved to help the underserved.
FY2010 budget gap projected
Senior university administrators are considering ways to close a projected $5.8 million budget shortfall for fiscal year 2010, President Jehuda Reinharz and Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President Peter French announced at a Nov. 6 faculty meeting. The projected shortfall is based on current gift, endowment, and tuition trends.
The university faces a $10 million shortfall for the 2009 fiscal year, which will be resolved through one-time funds and emergency expenditure reductions, including reductions in department budgets and the suspension of position searches.
“It’s an ongoing deficit,” Vice President for Budget and Planning Frances Drolette told The Hoot.
The process to address the projected budget shortfall for FY2010 includes the consideration of recommendations from the faculty advisory committee that Provost Marty Krauss convened last month. Senior administrators will submit proposals and recommendations to close the budget gap by mid-December, Reinharz said.
A budget will then be presented to the Board of Trustees for approval in March. “We cannot present a deficit budget to the Board,” Reinharz emphasized.
Editorial: Late to psych, ride a bike
The quintessential college campus always seems to be scattered with bicycles, and for good reason. As a cheap, convenient and eco-friendly means of transportation, they appeal to students in a way that no car or campus shuttle can. Yet, between the Massachusetts winter weather, the stress of bike upkeep and protection, and the fact that […]
Book of Matthew: Where have you gone, Joe Lieberman?
What do we do about Joe Lieberman? It’s a question that has been hovering over the heads of the Democratic Party leadership for months. They’ve successfully avoided it for a while, instead focusing on more important campaign issues. But the campaign season is over, and the Lieberman question must be answered. You see, Senator Lieberman […]
