News Item: Cory Booker to deliver Brandeis commencement address.
An excellent choice, especially considering Booker is probably very much in demand this time of year. There's been a major controversy over the commencement speaker pretty much every year since I was there - remember when people complained about Helmut Kohl, because their grandparents would be traumatized by a German?- but I imagine the Booker choice will be almost universally praised.
And in other Brandeis news- they might get rid of my major department, American Studies!