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 Friday, December 5th, 2008 Brandeis University's Community Newspaper TheHoot.Net  

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Community begins to heal after terror attacks in Mumbai, India

COMMEMORATION: Chabad Rabbi Peretz Chein encourages community members to commit acts of loving kindness in honor of those killed in the Mumbai terrorist attacks at a gathering Wednesday. <br /><i>PHOTO BY Napoleon Lherisson/The Hoot</i>One hundred members of the Brandeis community stood in silence, eyes turned down in the late afternoon sun in front of the Goldfarb Library Wednesday, commemorating the victims of the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India. The wind whipped the faces of the crowd that had come together and braved the cold to combat terror with love. The moment ...

Professor hiring freeze causes concern in affected departments

by Matt Kipnis
The hiring freeze recently instituted by the university in response to a $10 million budget shortfall for the 2009 fiscal ...

Academic expenditure cuts focus on faculty costs

by Alison Channon
University seminars will no longer be mandatory and fewer sections of foreign language classes will be offered next academic year ...