The United States Senate passed the bipartisan Student Aid Reward Act last Thursday as an amendment to the 2006 fiscal year budget, increasing federal spending on direct student aid by $5.4 billion.
A proposal to place students who receive a 'D' for the semester in a class on "advising alert" instead of "academic warning" will be presented to the faculty at its meeting on Thursday.The proposed change would allow students to request an "incomplete" or study abroad the semester after receiving a D on a semester grade report.Under the current system students are placed on academic warning from the time they receive a D on their transcript until they have earned "satisfactory" grades in a later semester.
Staff at the Shapiro Admissions Center reported receiving a suspicious white envelope that contained what appeared to be marijuana seeds on March 4, according to a campus police report.Director of Admissions Deena Whitfield said the envelope was addressed to "A.B." and had no return address."We have no idea who it came from," Whitfield said.
Students from the newly-chartered Fair Trade Brigade have been working with Aramark officials since the beginning of last semester to bring more "fair trade" coffee options to Java City and to make fair trade chocolate and tea available in the convenience store.
Stumbling in the hall and speaking incoherently, a first-year laughed to himself as he went back to his room.
Harvard Professor Gregory Nagy delivered a lecture titled "The Three Songs of Demokodos in Odyssey VIII" to the Brandeis community on Feb.
In the final event in the Boost Brandeis Week, students gathered around University President Jehuda Reinharz in Cholmondeley's last Thursday night to hear stories about his days as a Brandeis graduate student in the late 1960s, his decade as a professor in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies department and about his current position as president, which he has held since 1994.Reinharz spoke about his admiration for Brandeis' 10 founders, many of whom were immigrants from Russia without formal education."It was an unlikely group to create a university," he said.
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