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Virginia Thomas called Professor Anita Hill Oct. 9 requesting that Hill apologize to her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, for allegations she made against him for sexual harassment during his confirmation hearings in 1991. “Good morning, Anita Hill, it’s Ginny Thomas,” she said in a voicemail left on Hill’s Brandeis office phone on the […]
Hedy Epstein, a Holocaust survivor and vocal critic of Israeli Defense Force (IDF) policies, said that the IDF continues to unjustly inflict violence on Palestinian civilians during a lecture inside the Levin-Ross room Thursday evening. “American media portrays Israelis as the victims, and Palestinians as the terrorists. That’s not the way it is,” Epstein said. […]
The university announced three new Justice Brandeis Semester (JBS) programs on civil rights, film and mobile programming for summer 2011 and one program on environmental studies for next fall, according to a newsletter sent Wednesday by program manager Alyssa Grinberg. Last year, half of the eight JBS programs for this summer were cut due to […]
Professor James Callahan, or Jim, was one of the first people Lisa Lynch met in the summer of 2008 when she became dean of Brandeis’ Heller School for Social Policy and Management. “I remember he just popped in my first day when my door was open,” Lynch said. “He just came in and started talking, […]
A single-alarm fire started on the patio behind the Schneider building of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at 10 a.m. Monday and then moved inside the building, causing between $25,000 and $50,000 worth of damage, Waltham Fire Department and university officials said. Students were evacuated from their classes and sent to Levin […]
Founder of the non-profit group Food Not Bombs Keith McHenry spoke at Brandeis Monday about the history of his organization and his own personal involvement in a group that grew from a few college students to a movement with chapters in more than 1,000 cities. McHenry founded Food Not Bombs with a group of seven […]
Jytte Klausen of the politics department spoke at in Rapaporte Treasure Hall Monday, but for the first time she delivered remarks as a Dane, on the success of Danish and European integration of Islam, opposite Berter Haarder, a member her home country’s Cabinet in charge of interior affairs and once immigration chief. The debate-like forum […]
Brandeis University was forced to take out more loans in fiscal year 2009 than in previous years in order to compensate for the effect of the national economic crisis, according to the university’s tax exemption forms from that year. For example, on June 23, the university took a $50 million loan from Bank of America […]
Conservative activist David Horowitz spoke this week to Brandeis students about academic freedom and leftist bias in American universities, which he said were full of “non-thinking liberals.” During the lecture, Horowitz explained that a key difference between American universities and schools in more oppressive countries is that American schools, he said, are meant to teach […]
Ellen Schrecker, visiting professor from Yeshiva University, told a Brandeis audience in the Rapaporte Treasure Hall Tuesday that institutions like the university are “under attack” due to political pressure on academics and structural changes within the universities which diminish the value of undergraduate education Schrecker said that the weakening of university faculty is behind a […]
