Volume 9 Number 14
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Brandeis University’s Community Newspaper • Waltham, Mass.
New tragedy shakes BU College Notebook: Student charged in crash By Connor Novy Editor
A Boston University student driving the van which flipped over, killing three students and injuring four
studying abroad has been charged by New Zealand police. He faces three counts of careless driving causing death and four counts of careless driving causing injury. He was asked to surrender his passport. He appeared before the Auckland District Court Friday morning. Twenty-six students were involved in the van crash while traveling to a popular hiking spot last week. One
of the minivans drifted to the wrong side of the road and then rolled over when the driver attempted to correct course. The van rolled multiple times, killing three students and injuring four, including the van’s driver, one of whom is now in a medically-induced coma after brain surgery. Meg Theriault, a Boston University junior, has See BU, page 2
Lawrence chooses Waltham, ’Deis to sell Newton home
photo by nate rosenbloom/the hoot
University President Fred Lawrence, pictured at Thursday’s faculty meeting, to move to Watch Factory apartment in Waltham.
By Jon Ostrowsky Editor
Brandeis will sell its universityowned home on Beaumont Avenue in Newton and rent an apartment in the renovated Waltham Watch Factory for President Fred Lawrence
and his wife, Kathy, officials announced earlier this month. After the board of trustees voted in March, authorizing the university to sell the Newton residence at 66 Beaumont Ave. where former president Jehuda Reinharz and his wife Shulamit lived for most of his 16-
Rosen leaves Union legacy By Nathan Koskella Editor
Outgoing Student Union president and graduating senior Herbie Rosen delivered his final State of the Union address May 3, thanking the student body he has represented and celebrating Union success stories under his leadership. Rosen admitted that most students “do not care about what the Student Union does,” but he said that this was not a bad thing, because student government is about the act of volunteering. The act itself “is what really counts.” He said “what I hope to demonstrate today is that the Student Union is very much alive, active and on its way to being a connected, effective advocate of students,” and Rosen touted several accomplishments of his administration in the speech and in his farewell email
year tenure, Hammond Residential in Chestnut Hill listed the house, assessed at $2.21 million for $2.25 million on May 1. Lawrence, who will move into the two-bedroom, 2.5-bath Crescent See LAWRENCE, page 3
At IBS, Magid merges academics and government By Connor Novy Editor
Brandeis’ International Business School may be tucked away from the rest of the campus in Sachar Woods, but it’s proving to be an important part of the university’s future. IBS Dean Bruce Magid has represented Brandeis on Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick’s most recent trade mission to Brazil. Magid began as dean of IBS in 2007 and, he says, he brought the missions to Brandeis. Magid jokes that he left Massachusetts when the Big Dig began, and only returned when it was done. He began his career in the public sector in Brazil; when he did return to Massachusetts, he was appointed by the governor to the Board of the Massachusetts Office of International Trade and Investment, where he urged the governor to look toward Latin America as a potential trade partner. “Nobody really thought about Brazil, but Portuguese is the secondspoken language in Massachusetts and it’s now the sixth largest economy and there are these incredible opportunities just beginning in Brazil,” Magid said in an interview last week. Where other countries were already “picked-over,” Brazil was still untapped in opportunity for Massachusetts. Magid convinced the governor to look toward Brazil, and when he came to Brandeis, got the university more deeply involved in the missions. “We have a lot to sell to the Brazilians,” he explained, citing Massachusetts’ strong universities and untapped potential for international trade. The country, Magid said, is look-
ing to “move from a commodities exporter to more of an innovative industrial sector” and Magid, with his 35 years experience in Latin American countries, convinced the governor of Massachusetts, who had previously been to trade missions to China, to look toward Brazil as a potential partner. “If we increase international trade and we attract foreign investment, that generates jobs,” Magid said, explaining Governor Patrick’s strategy to market the state and its massive university system to developing nations. The efforts paid off, he said. “It culminated when the president of Brazil visited the United States; she visited two cities: Washington D.C. and then she had a lunch with the governor and a few of us here in Boston.” The transition to the academic world was not abrupt. “I always had maybe not a foot, but a toe in the university world,” Magid said. He had intended to go into higher education since the beginning of his career, but was advised to work in public and private sectors before attempting the academic. He did proprietary research as the chief international economist for Bank of America and wrote articles and pamphlets on emerging economies and export finance, always marginally connected to the academic world. “When I came to the point in my career where I was ready to make that move, it was a natural move,” he said. He worked at a number of other universities, including the University of Michigan, before coming to Brandeis. Magid traveled to Israel in March See IBS, page 2
Brandeis succeeds with Springfest
to the student body. The Union sponsored an “unprecedented” more than 30 events on campus this year, Rosen said. He discussed the personal joy it brought him to plan the celebration of the re-opening of the Linsey Pool, as he has himself been a swimmer since his first year. Rosen highlighted in his parting email the fact that Einsteins now opens at noon on Sundays, open for more hours than it had been in the past; the ongoing dining services review; the student involvement with the forthcoming strategic planning process; the securing of shuttles to Riverside and the student involvement protesting proposed Massachusetts T system transit rate hikes; and especially the fact that all the recent constitutional amendments, each of them proposed by himself, passed the Union vote last See UNION, page 3
May 20, 2012
photo courtesy of amanda dryer
hanging out on chapels field Students gather for an impressive Springfest lineup.
inside this issue: ‘Avengers’
Turnover
Study abroad
Our review of the new superhero blockbuster.
Editor explores turnover in clubs after graduation.
Students see war crimes trial abroad in The Hague.
Arts, Etc. , p. 17
Impressions , p. 20
Features. , p. 10
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