Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
With one of the highest group-to-student ratios in the country, Brandeis provides an expansive selection of a capella groups from which its students can choose, covering musical genres such as theatre, gospel, pre-80s, and, of course, plenty of modern rock. Each new year brings a wave of freshmen eager and ready to test the a capella waters, bringing with them wildly varying levels of experience.
I was raised by two journalists, my father an anthologized sports writer and my mother a political correspondent for the Boston Phoenix, so I am well aquatinted with the pressure that a journalist experiences while under deadline. So, I applaud your sense of journalistic responsibility to your peers and the Brandeis community as a whole. That being said, I am upset to say that the sloppiness of your papers reporting became so apparent that I felt I would be remiss if I did not address it.
At a recent faculty meeting, it was presented by Union officers that there is overwhelming support from the student body to replace all non-fair trade coffee on campus. This would lead to a roughly 20 to 25 cent increase in the price of coffee at all locations on campus.
Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND) was chartered two weeks ago (on Sept 6) and is one of the most active clubs on campus, with upwards of 400 people on their list serve. STAND (which has 85 chapters nation wide) is a national, college based and run organization dedicated to raising awareness and taking action against the atrocities currently taking place in the Darfur region of Sudan.
Salameh Nematt, Washington Bureau Chief of Al-Hayat International Arab Daily in London, gave a talk and fielded questions Monday afternoon regarding Islamic-Western relations.
Brandeis University has taken a two-pronged approach to making TV surfing easierand more satisfyingacross campus, not only adding on three new channels to Brandeis conventional cable lines, but by also reworking the pilot for Library and Technology Services (LTS) online project, IPTV.
