Dukakis offers insight on Democrats, Mass. Senate race

Former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, the 1988 Democratic nominee for president, spoke to students at Brandeis Wednesday evening about how Democrats need to strengthen their grassroots campaign for President Obama in 2012. He told students that he was very impressed with how Obama was able to raise money back in 2008. With four million contributors, […]

Strategic decisions to be announced despite ‘planning fatigue’

President Lawrence acknowledged at Thursday’s faculty meeting a feeling of “planning fatigue” among the Brandeis community, even as he asked the assembled professors and staff to bear with him and continue looking to the future. “We’re looking not only at where we have been and where we are, but where we want to be,” Lawrence […]

’Deis joins Wall Street protests

Nestled within Boston’s financial district is Dewey Square, a small plot of land now covered with tents—and, recently, with protesters. “Occupy Boston” is a protest meant to call attention to the unmet needs of the “bottom 99 percent” of Americans. It is modeled as part of the nascent Occupy Wall Street, the protest movement that […]