Word: brandeises
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The regional competition featured seven teams from the northeast region divided into two pools. Third-seeded Harvard was pooled together with Yale, MIT, and Brandeis while Columbia, Wellesley, and St. Johns comprised the other division.
Putting an end to their most concentrated effort at persuading Brandeis University to divest from companies doing business in South Africa, the school's three chaplains last Sunday ended their planned two-week hunger strike, Brandeis official said.
The two-week strike was only the most intensive part of the chaplains' effort at focusing the Brandeis community's awareness on the divestment issue. They are still going without lunch every day, and without all meals on Tuesdays--actions that scores of Brandeis students are emulating, according to The...
The Brandeis Board of Trustees has stated that the university should prepare to divest completely, but it has formulated no timetable for the university to follow, said Sallie K. Riggs, Brandeis vice president for communications and public relations.
The board will decide in May whether it thinks conditions in South Africa have ameliorated enough for Brandeis to continue to hold stock in companies doing business there, she said, adding that the protesters want complete divestment now. CORNELL