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Activists hold ‘teach-in’ to educate about Occupy movement

Students for a Democratic Society joined with their peers in a group led by Professor Gordon Fellman (SOC) hosted a teach-in in the Shapiro Campus Center atrium on Tuesday. This ...

Bernstein Festival opens with yarn and music

The campus and lamp posts around the SCC have been yarn-bombed with vibrant multi colored knit for the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts. Kinetic sculpture pieces have been ...

Alleged rape case at Brandeis casts doubts on assault policy effectiveness

Alleging she was raped by a Heller School student at their off-campus apartment nearly a dozen times from October 2010 through January 2011, an undergraduate student now on medical leave ...

Kirkland ’13 takes presidency

Todd Kirkland ’13 was elected Student Union president last Friday, edging out Dillon Harvey ’14 by a narrow margin of less than 100 votes. This is the first year in ...

Hillel Election Results Announced

After more than a day of voting that was open to the entire study body, regardless of religious affiliation, Allie Saran ’13 was elected president of the Hillel Executive Student ...

Home Depot co-founder stresses philanthropy for businesses

Ken Langone, an investment banker who co-founded Home Depot in 1978, delivered this year’s second annual Saul G. Cohen Memorial Lecture in Rapaporte Treasure Hall on Monday afternoon. Elisabeth Cohen, ...

LGBTQ grads recognized at lavender graduation

Sporting shades of lavender, the graduating members of Brandeis’ LGBTQ family paraded into the Intercultural Center lounge amid cheers and cello music on Tuesday. With excitement and nostalgia, Brandeis commenced ...

Brandeis alumna’s quest for lost trunk ends in ‘miracle’

For Brandeis alumna Erin Maidan ’03 of Waterloo, Iowa, this Holocaust Remembrance Day holds a special significance. This year she has honored her grandparents’ memory by reclaiming a lost artifact ...

Police recover body of BC student

After a seven-week search that left police baffled, Boston College senior Franco Garcia, 21, was found in the Chestnut Hill Reservoir on April 11. Police searched the reservoir for four ...

Dr. Cheng Li discusses ramifications of upheaval in China

Dr. Cheng Li, director of China research at the Brookings Institute and a member of the Academic Advisory Team of the Congressional U.S.-China Working Group, discussed the changing face of ...

Candidates try to stand out in crowded-field debate

Elections were initially planned for Thursday, from midnight to midnight, but due to short notice in scheduling e-mail lists with LTS, were postponed until 2 p.m. Thursday afternoon. Current Student ...

Programs rules leave room for ‘major’ changes

Currently, Brandeis offers 43 majors and 43 minors, with room to explore fields that overlap and cover cross-disciplinary issues, but 10 of the majors do not offer minor programs. Extensive major ...

Faculty meeting brief

Fiscal Year 2013 budget plans to draw on the Brandeis endowment by 5 percent. In Thursday’s faculty meeting, President Lawrence noted: “Is that drawing the endowment too high? You bet,” ...

Students win Deis’ Sprout Grants for tech startups

The university announced this year’s recipients of the Sprout Grants, ranging from mobile apps to the potential detection of dirty bombs. The Sprout Grant program was designed to promote innovation ...

Board inducts three corporate leaders as new members

The board of trustees elected three new members last week; Michael Frieze, George Krupp and Lisa Kranc ’75 begin their term on the board starting May 20. Frieze is chairman ...