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On June 23, 2009 the university announced it would suspend contributions to the retirement funds of its 5,181 employees for the entirety of fiscal year 2010. The move, which saved the university $7.4 million, was deemed necessary to help close the then-calculated $8.9 million budget gap. But while faculty and staff were planning to make […]
Alex Dainis ’11 has been selected as one of five finalists to win a month-long stay at Chicago Museum of Science and Industry as part of its “Month at the Museum” contest. If she wins, Dainis will live at the museum and use social media and film to report on activity within the museum from […]
The administrators of a study that measures the strength of liberal arts programs at schools around the country will visit Brandeis Wednesday to meet with students, faculty and senior university officials as part of their evaluation of the true value of a Brandeis education. The roving team is from the Center of Inquiry in the […]
Internationally renowned pianist Sara David Buechner spoke about her experiences as a pianist and as a transgendered woman at the seventh annual Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture in Rapaporte Treasure Hall on Tuesday. Buechner, who was born and and lived as a boy, David, until her gender reassignment surgery in 1998, expressed feeling ill-equipped to talk about […]
Charles Bronfman and Jeffery Solomon, co-authors of “The Art of Giving: Where the Soul Meets a Business Plan,” spoke Monday about philanthropy in today’s world. Andrew Hahn, the director of the Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy, mediated the discussion. “The Art of Giving” describes philanthropy as a business, while addressing the major issues […]
A Brandeis student notified Public Safety last Friday that he was responsible for exposing himself twice inside the Harlan Chapel. The Office of the Dean of Student Life is now responsible for handling the perpetrator, Ed Callahan, director of public safety said. “A student came into our office and was remorseful for the incident[s],” Callahan […]
Professor Jonathan Sarna (NEJS), a historian on American-Judaism, spoke to students and faculty this week about Jewish politics and President Ulysses S. Grant’s relationship with the American-Jewish community in the late 1860s. The presentation, titled “The Beginnings of Jewish Politics in America: Jew, Ulysses S. Grant, and the 1868 Election,” came from a chapter in […]
The new class of Student Union senators will include successful write-in candidate Missy Skolnik ’12 of the Village, after a constitutional limitation initially appeared to bar her from the seat because she, like most upperclassmen living in the quad, is going abroad in the spring. The Constitution mandates that candidates, to be eligible to run […]
Herbie Rosen ’12 is a self-proclaimed laugher, people-watcher and “Harry Potter” fanatic who tries to live life to the fullest. When attempting to describe himself in only a few sentences, he said, “I try to make the most out of every day. I laugh at least four times a day, and I’m really happy to […]
The recent global financial crisis forced families, businesses, governments and even academic institutions to make due with less. It required all of us to make difficult decisions. And Brandeis did the right thing when it froze university salaries and cut retirement funding for employees in fiscal year 2010. Yet, while all employees were forced to […]
