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Fast Forward Two Brandeis Students Stabbed, 16-Year-Old ‘Covered In Blood’ Arrested
A 16-year-old boy was arrested in connection to the stabbing of two Brandeis University graduate students early Monday morning, the Boston Herald reported. Police in Waltham, Massachusetts responded at around 1:37 a.m. to a report of a stabbing inside a home a block away from campus. They discovered the two female students, who had been…
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Fast Forward Pictures of Brandeis Students, Professors Uploaded To White Nationalist Website
(JTA) — Photos of several students and professors from Brandeis University, which has Jewish roots, were posted to a white nationalist and anti-Semitic website. The photos were posted on the Vanguard News Network Forum, in a thread that mocked Jews’ for their appearance, the Associated Press reported. There are hundreds of other images posted in…
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Fast Forward Brandeis Dumps Officials After Report On Abusive Basketball Coach
Four months after Brandeis University fired its men’s basketball coach due to allegations of verbal abuse and racial discrimination, the university has accepted the resignation of one top official and demoted two others who were supposed to supervise him, Deadspin reported. Vice president of student affairs Sheryl Sousa resigned, and athletic director Lynn Dempsey and…
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Fast Forward Brandeis Basketball Coach Called Student ‘Jew Boy’
Brandeis University fired head basketball coach Brian Meehan last week, citing multiple complaints about racial discrimination from players dating back years. Now new reports say the complaints date back five years — and he also allegedly made anti-Semitic remarks to a student manager on the team, Deadspin reported. The former student manager, Phil Keisman, told…
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Fast Forward Brandeis Fires Basketball Coach Over Racial Harassment Complaints
Updated 7:00 p.m. Brandeis University fired its men’s basketball coach on Thursday after receiving complaints alleging what the school called “preferential and discriminatory treatment, unprofessional behavior, and racially biased harassment.” University president Ronald Liebowitz announced the firing of coach Brian Meehan move in a Facebook post that did not once mention Meehan’s name. Meehan has…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitism Rare But Anti-Israel Talk Common On Elite Campuses, Study Finds
A new survey of Jewish students at some of America’s most elite universities has found that they rarely experience anti-Semitism but that most have been exposed to anti-Israel hostility. The study, conducted by Brandeis University’s Steinhardt Social Research Institute, surveyed Jewish and non-Jewish students at Brandeis, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University…
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Culture Why Brandeis University Cancelled A Lenny Bruce-Inspired Play
A production of Michael Weller’s “Buyer Beware” at Brandeis University was cancelled following objections to its Lenny Bruce-inspired content, The New York Times reported on Monday. Weller, best known for his plays “Moonchildren” (1971) and “Loose Ends” (1979), also wrote the scripts for the film adaptations of “Hair” (1979) and “Ragtime” (1981). “Buyer Beware” was…
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News Michael Rosbash Is A Nobel Prizewinner From Straight Outta The Borscht Belt
With characteristic envelope-pushing humor, Michael Rosbash, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, couldn’t help dropping a joke into a press conference Monday morning about the life of a scientist. In the library of Brandeis University, where he has taught for over forty years, Rosbash told a packed crowd of colleagues, university…
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