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 days in February but came up empty-handed. Garcia was a chemistry major and played clarinet in the school band. He commuted from home and worked […]
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 requirements could turn away students interested in only minoring in the topic. Such students could benefit from the additional course requirements as well as […]
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 Chinese leadership in a lecture Wednesday in Rapaporte Treasure Hall. The seminar commemorated the new issue of the Brandeis International Journal (BIJ), which featured China […]
Siegal exposes corruption of international adoptions
As a fellow of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University, Erin Siegal has painstakingly unearthed the corruption of international adoptions, particularly those stemming from Guatemala, and exposed them to the public with her books “Finding Fernanda” and “The U.S. Embassy Cables: Adoption Fraud in Guatemala, 1987-2010.” “Erin has told a beautiful and […]
Vigil held for missing BC student
A Catholic church service was held this past Sunday, April 1, for Franco Garcia, the Boston College chemistry major missing since Feb. 22. The Saint Jude Parish on Main Street in Waltham held the service for the 21-year-old college junior, attended by dozens of family and friends who prayed together for a safe return. Garcia […]
City Year director speaks on leadership
The Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education hosted a lunch seminar on Monday led by Dr. Max Klau, a Harvard graduate and the director of leadership development at City Year. Klau discussed leadership and development of City Year participants, called core members, in the event titled “Fanning the Flame of Idealism: How City Year […]
Union candidates announced
Student Body President Herbie Rosen ’12 outlined the upcoming presidential elections in a meeting Wednesday. Five candidates announced their intention to run for student body president by press time, including current secretary Todd Kirkland ’13, David Fisch ’13, Louis Connelly ’13, Dillon Harvey ’14 and Joshua Hoffman-Senn ’13. Charlotte Franco ’15 said she thinks the […]
Stifled speech called out
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) released a list of the 12 worst colleges for Free Speech on March 27, which featured Brandeis in the top three. The list was released on the Huffington Post’s website and, among others, it included Harvard, Tufts and Yale University. The FIRE’s list of the worst colleges […]
Housing numbers lag behind growing class size
Housing lottery numbers ran out nearly 300 spots earlier than they did last year, reflecting the trend of a growing student body and limited housing availability on campus. This situation is forcing university officials to review the ratio of rooms to students for future classes. “Students seemed to use the lottery numbers slightly more efficiently […]
MBTA concedes cuts, raises fares
Amid criticism over severe service cuts, the MBTA revised its budget proposal last week in a change that would raise fares an average of 23 percent but only result in minor service cuts. The price of the commuter rail and the 553 and 554 buses that many commuting students use will experience a fare hike […]
In Memoriam: Adrienne Rich, 82
Adrienne Rich, a poet, social activist and one of the most influential feminist writers of the 20th century, died on March 27, at her home in Santa Cruz, Calif. She was 82. Rich taught creative writing at Brandeis from 1970 to 1972 and was awarded honorary doctorates from both Brandeis and Harvard. She also taught […]
In memoriam: David Waltz, 68
Former computer science Professor David Waltz died March 22 of brain cancer. He was 68. Professor Waltz had been a member of the faculty at Brandeis for nine years before working at Columbia University. Waltz was a leading member of the computer science industry. In addition to his impressive accomplishments in the field of computer […]
Governor Patrick speaks at Global Trade Summit
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick met with raucous applause at Brandeis’ annual Global Trade Summit last Tuesday. He praised his own administration’s successes in the world economy and its recuperation in the country’s technology and business sectors. Education, one of Patrick’s three main talking points at the summit, is currently the most contentious. With a 5 […]
Body of NY college student discovered
Arizona police discovered the body of missing Elmira College student Jessica Ronhock last Saturday in an SUV at the bottom of a cliff 25 miles south of Flagstaff, Ariz. Her body was found inside a white Jeep Cherokee. A couple of elk hunters came across the SUV. Ronhock’s body had been decomposing for several months. […]
Amartya Sen to speak at Heller commencement
Dean Lisa Lynch of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management announced that this year’s commencement speaker will be Nobel Prize-winning economist and philosopher Amartya Sen. Sen is the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences; this year’s recipient of the National Humanities Medal; and Lamont Professor of Economics and Philosophy at […]
Emergency response systems depend on text notifications
Brandeis has instituted a system of emergency text messaging designed to send students “pre-defined messages to match the situation,” according to John Turner, director of networks and systems at LTS. After the initial message, he explained the system allows staff members “to send follow-up messages with more details.” Turner also stated how the system was […]
Senior Lauren Gendzier completes nationally
Despite no ice rink on campus, Lauren Gendzier ’12 has found a way to enter the competitive world of synchronized skating, a sport defined by the U.S. Figure Skating Association as “a fast growing sport,” with approximately 525 synchronized teams registered in the United States. It is an intense team sport, in which eight to […]
A call for justice for Trayvon Martin
More than a month since the Feb. 26 shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by 28-year-old George Zimmerman in Sanford, Fla., many questions remain. These questions vary from the complex legal ones concerning “hate crime” and the efficacy of “stand your ground” laws, to the more mundane question of simply what happened. There are also concerns […]
First-year student and influential yoga instructor
As a first-year student at Brandeis, Shayna Palmer ’15 has already seized initiative, sharing her passion for yoga with her peers. Palmer teaches four yoga classes every week to the diverse assemblage of students who attend these sessions as part of her work-study program. Palmer confessed that “initially, you couldn’t get me in a yoga […]
Women’s tennis off to best start in 27 years
The 19th-ranked Brandeis women’s tennis team continued their blistering start to the season with a 6-3 win against 30th-ranked Bates College and an 8-1 win against Babson. With the win against Bates, the Judges improved their record against nationally-ranked opponents to 3-1, their sole loss coming from a match against Middlebury College. The Judges are […]
