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New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief Ethan Bronner spoke to the Brandeis community Tuesday about the necessity of objective reporting in Israel, and the difficulties reporters face in pursuit of it, in the International Lounge of the Usdan Student Center. Bronner explained to his audience how he tries to report on two opposing narratives, Jewish-Israeli […]
The Brandeis 2020 Committee will announce its proposed academic cuts on Feb. 24, the committee’s chair Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe told Thursday’s faculty meeting. The 2020 Committee has three major criteria for deciding which academic programs should remain intact: Programs needed in order to maintain Brandeis’ standing as a respectable research and […]
The Union Judiciary (UJ) voted to remove former Union Secretary Diana Aronin ’11 from office Sunday following last week’s impeachment trial. The ruling by the UJ found in favor of the senate which claimed Aronin “willfully corrupted and violated the duties set forth to her in the Constitution.” According to the Union Constitution, in order […]
The executive search firm Storbeck Pimentel & Associates will aid the Brandeis Presidential Search Committee in its quest to find the next university president, the committee announced via their Web site Monday. The committee will be directly working with the firm’s managing partner Shelly Storebeck and partner Chuck Bunting. Prof. Len Saxe (NJES), chair of […]
The Office of Study Abroad is now accepting applications to The Hague Summer Program, a new six-week opportunity that combines studying international law both in theory and in practice at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Netherlands. Students enrolled in the program will live at the University of Leiden, take classes with Prof. Richard […]
Brandeis students have joined the relief effort to assist in rebuilding Haiti after the destruction caused by last month’s earthquake, which affected more than three million people. The earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12 killed more than 200,000 people and left many more homeless and in urgent need of medical care. Brandeis Haiti Relief […]
Students Crossing Boundaries (SCB) is beginning another year of pursuing personal experiences to help students understand and engage in international dialogue about conflict. SCB was originally created in 2007 after former President Jimmy Carter spoke at Brandeis and challenged students to experience the Israeli-Palestinian conflict firsthand with the hope that it would give them insight […]
Library and Technology Services has released a beta version of LouFind, a high-tech and progressive way to search the Brandeis library catalog online. This new search engine is more like Brandeis Scholar, an LTS tool for searchin through academic journal articles, than the older Louis Online Catalog that it may one day replace. It allows […]
When Diana Aronin ’11 heard nearly two months ago that she had been impeached as Student Union secretary by the Senate, she was not caught in the act, but rather off guard. “I was completely surprised, and I had no idea there was even a big deal,” she said, referring to the absence of a […]
Imagine you’re doing research for a paper. Let’s say that you, like many of your Brandeis counterparts, are in a rush and don’t have time to fool around, zigzagging between the myriad of bookshelves, searching for that book in a haystack. Or, let’s say you’re a little research-shy and aren’t exactly sure where you should […]
