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The Hague summer program has now been extended into a spring 2011 study abroad option by the Office of Global Affairs in conjunction with the Study Abroad Office, the International and Global Studies Program and the Legal Studies Program. The new study abroad program will be similar to the six-week program at The Hague, which […]
Library and Technology Services (LTS) has announced that this summer, Bmail, Brandeis’ campus e-mail system, will be converted to a system managed and controlled by Google. It is also considering moving to a completely wireless Internet network in the residence halls, in addition to reducing or eliminating campus room phones. Brandeis currently controls Bmail, meaning […]
Provost Marty Krauss and Chief Operating Officer Jeff Apfel this week began a survey of the student body to determine what to do with new space left from the demolition of the Kalman building as part of the third phase of the university’s Science Complex Renewal Project. “The proposal for alternate space ideas has been […]
Three leading experts and advocates in the field of human slavery and trafficking spoke Wednesday at the panel event “Slavery Today: Sex Labor & Pornography,” which focused on trafficking issues within the United States and the rise of pornography that features many enslaved women. Human trafficking is the second largest growing criminal industry in the […]
The first issue of the student-run Brandeis University Law Journal will be released May 3, founding Editor in Chief Judah Marans ’11 said. The law journal is one of the few undergraduate law publications in the country and features articles from students, professors and University President Jehuda Reinharz. The first issue includes a foreword from […]
A group of more than 100 students observed Yom Hazikaron in the Shapiro Campus Center atrium Monday in an event hosted by the Brandeis Zionist Alliance (BZA). The gathering marked Israel’s Remembrance Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism. Speakers at the event included Rabbi Elliot Kaplowitz, a Brandeis alumna and co-director of the […]
Starting with the recently admitted class of 2014, sophomore parking will no longer be available. Current first-years will have access to parking but there will be rate increases for the entire campus in an attempt to address overall parking concerns on campus, Mark Collins, vice president of campus operations, said. The final decisions on rate […]
There are more than 400 million users of Facebook, more than 40 percent of those users are between the ages of 17 and 24. The average user has 160 friends and is connected to 60 groups, pages or events. With the number of those over 40-years old using facebook growing, just how do students protect […]
Students gathered on the Great Lawn Tuesday afternoon for the carnival held in Israel’s honor. Jews everywhere were especially excited on this year’s “4/20” to celebrate the 62nd birthday of Israel’s independence, otherwise known as the Jewish holiday Yom Ha’atzmaut. “4/20” is typically associated in both North America and abroad as a day to smoke […]
For my family, everything seems to exist in fours. There are four siblings, four colleges, four college tuitions and four careers in the making. And we wouldn’t have it any other way (except the four college tuition fees, of course). Unknown to many Brandesians, I’m a quadruplet, born second. At home, being a quadruplet, or […]
