Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
You walk into class, and everyone just stares at you. You take a seat in the corner as the professor gets up and speaks, and you dont understand a thing. He says a lot of odd phrases and then apparently makes a joke, because everyones laughing. This isnt your first class in another country, its the first elective youve taken outside your major.
The Brandeis Student Union is implementing a new outreach program this year in conjunction with the soon-to-be-unveiled Brandeis Citizenship Campaign.
Now I can appreciate anyone who likes going down to the gym to get a good, honest workout in before they begin their studies. But sometimes the people that I see at Gosman Sports Complex really get under my skin for a variety of reasons. Here are the eight types of people who I have no use for when it comes to how they spend their time at the gym.
It has been a difficult couple of weeks for my friend, the Student Union Secretary Michael Goldman '08. At the Union Senate meeting on the evening of Sunday, Sept. 23rd, Student Union President Shreeya Sinha '09 entered the room to deliver her weekly update to the Senate.
The Brandeis Asian-American Student Association (BAASA) hosted the annual Pan-Asia night on Wednesday at the Intercultural Center to expose the Brandeis community to the various foods from Asian cultures.
The MLK & Friends club has been in the planning stages since the beginning of the Fall 2006 semester, and has finally become a recognized club. The idea came about when a group of MLK Scholars (students who received Brandeis Universitys Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship) started discussing the need for an outlet for those scholars who have such strong backgrounds in community service. The club is based on the principles that are stated in the MLK Jr. Scholarship: social justice, community service, education, and equality. The club also focuses on the ideals of community building and unity, as well as recruitment for perspective students and scholars.
There is a beetle in the bathroom! I roar triumphant
thunder drunk down filthy stairs to announce to the assembled crowd
of friends and failed lovers:
While Dean of Student Life Jamele Adams reported many positive statistics on diversity in his first annual State of Diversity address, he noted that fifty-one per cent of Brandeis undergraduates felt the University only minimally “support[ed] people in getting to know people of different backgrounds.
Dear Editor,
Mr. Dobereiners article on the efforts to arm your campus security officers was completely off base. The simplified and short sighted argument of simply using cameras to ward off potential criminals is comical at best.
Dear Editor,
Wow, I cannot actually believe you have students that believe a highly trained officer does not need a firearm! Cops needs guns because college kids and criminals have guns!
