"MODESTLY ENDOWED": Why does that phrase always seem to find its way into mainstream media articles about my alma mater Brandeis? Today my school gets the profile treatment from the Boston Globe, on the occasion of Jehuda Reinharz's ten years as president. No big surprises in the piece, aside from a description of the school's new Center for Middle East Studies, which Reinharz promises will be "non-ideological" (sure), and the figure that 'deis is now 54% Jewish.
Generally, the piece trots out the usual comparisons to Harvard and all the stuff about the university unendowment being small, though aside from that it looks like something that was drawn up by the school's PR department. And there's no mention, of course, of the Passner incident.