Pedaling for a purpose
They covered close to 1,000 miles in just 9 weeks, often wearing the same sunscreen-stained matching T-shirts.
Dafna Fine
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The Crumbs craze
It started a national cupcake craze. It has 35 company stores in six states, spanning the map from New York to California.
Supporting cancer survivors
In the middle of her senior year in 1999, as senioritis set in and her classmates soaked up the last of their college years, Samantha Eisenstein Watson '01, who later received an master's degree in business administration from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management and now works as an adjunct lecturer teaching "Sociology of Disability," was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer.
Creating a safety net on campus
In a New York Times article published in January titled "Positives With Roots in Tragedy on Campus," Michael Winerip wrote that "some of the best university programs-at Virginia Tech, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Western Kentucky University-have been spurred by some of the worst tragedies." Following the suicide which shook the Brandeis community in February, Brandeis administrators say that the University has been no exception in evaluating the effectiveness of the counseling resources available to students, whether through the administration, Department of Community Living, Psychological Counseling Center or student-run peer counseling groups."I don't think the suicide was the result of any hole in our system or any weakness in it," said Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Student Life Rick Sawyer.
Building up Nicaragua
Malaria pills: check. Typhoid pills: check. Underwear and socks: check. Cell phones and iPods: tossed aside to leave room for squeezing in the bare necessities.
Outer space, underground
You enter a round, windowless room, and a large metal door is shut behind you. You stand with your body against the wall, and the room begins to move.
On the road again
New York; Maine; Massachusetts; Pennsylvania; Washington, D.C.; North Carolina; Georgia; Florida; and Alabama.
Voting for victory
At this moment, the clock reads 02027011638. That is 2 years, 27 days, 1 hour, 16 minutes and 38 seconds on the Brandeis Libertarian-Conservative Union's countdown clock until political parties will battle in the 2012 presidential elections.
A family of philanthropy
It was almost a century ago that the Mandel brothers scurried around a boat headed for America, filling their pillow cases with meager victuals such as herring and bread.
Between Boundaries
For some, the barbed wire creates the illusion of a prison. Swarms of people grow restless, waiting up to two or three hours in the heat.
‘Brandeis is at the edge of a cliff’: Interim President addresses faculty
Former student returns as President
Study-in for Palestine hosted by Brandeis Jewish Bund reported to police
Massachusetts ballot question 6 available in select districts
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