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Archive for September 4th, 2009

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From canvases to copy machines: Thousands of Rose docs restricted since May, suggesting early intention to sell art.

Though the Rose Art Museum officially reopened in July, the Lee Gallery at the Museum has been empty of art since May 17. The gallery that used to house vibrant works of art now acts as a waiting room for over 7,000 documents pertaining to the Museum’s artwork. The documents are waiting to be copied […]


University starts interviews for new SVP of Communications

The university began conducting interviews on Wednesday to fill the position of Senior Vice President for Communications, in the hopes of finding a replacement for Lorna Miles by the end of the fall. The position was vacated when, in June, Miles left the university to work for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington […]


Redesigned website live, but not integrated

The new Brandeis undergraduate recruiting website has been accessible online since Friday Aug. 28. The website is a result of recommendations made by the Curriculum and Academic Restructuring Steering Committee (CARS) Admissions and Recruiting Subcommittee in a report last spring. Currently, the new website stands on its own at www.brandeis.edu/areas. Eventually, the new site will […]


Court sets date for Rose motion hearing

Almost three months after three Rose Art Museum benefactors filed a lawsuit against the university, lawyers for both sides will finally see the inside of a courtroom at a motion hearing to be held Oct. 13. The motions, one filed by the university to dismiss the suit and the other filed by the plaintiffs for […]


Editorial: Litigation would vindicate detractors

On Oct. 13, the university will find itself in Probate Court facing the ire of three Rose Art Museum benefactors. The benefactors, who filed suit against the university in July, are seeking an injunction preventing the sale of the museum’s art. The university is hoping the suit will be dismissed. If the Rose benefactors are […]


Editorial: The importance of thinking before speaking

This week, the university began interviewing candidates to fill former Senior Vice President of Communications Lorna Miles’ vacancy. Though it would save the university a substantial sum to leave the position empty, the financial gain would not offset the potential disaster a vacancy might cause. With the possibility of litigation on the horizon with a […]


The Clearing of a Rainbow

For 26 years, host LeVar Burton of PBS’s “Reading Rainbow” used his show to do what some would consider difficult, if not downright impossible in this increasingly technology-soaked world—teach children the joy of reading. First aired in 1983, the show’s episodes had a simple, but reliable pattern. Each one featured a children’s book chosen in […]


Reinharz scoots over student rights

Over the past couple of years, Brandeis University’s administration has shown itself to be an enemy of liberty and consistently untrustworthy through its arrogant abrogation of student and faculty rights. The policies under President Jehuda Reinharz have led to disastrous relations between the administration and those whom it represents. As a new school year dawns, […]