Brandeis to host Innocence week

Brandeis Universitys Innocence Club will host Innocence Week from November 12-16, a student-run series of events seeking to educate the community about the unjust convictions of innocent men and women in the American justice system.

The weeks events will feature a display of the 208 exonerees Monday through Friday. Students involved in the planning of the week will also be tabling in Usdan throughout the week with a petition to be sent to Massachusetts officials to expunge the records of exonerees.

The Brandeis Roosevelt Fellows:

Roosevelt Fellows are peer academic advisors who assist first year students with areas such as class selection and any other general academic questions pertaining to first years. They get paid a stipend of 500 dollars annually for their services.

Power Shift ’07 conference

News Flash: Were freaks! announced Ben Goldfarb, my workshop leader, last Sunday morning. He was right.

As he pointed out, how many college students wake up by 9 a.m. on a Sunday to attend a workshop on using the media to the advantage of climate change activism at a different university than their own, six states away?

Fame! I Want to Live Forever!

Kobe Bryant went to my high school. They retired his jersey on the wall of our gym, so when you were standing around and pretending to play badminton, youd look up and see a plaque commemorating the fact that he scored 5,000 points in a game or whatever. Kobe was something of a hometown hero, but when he got hit with rape charges during my sophomore year, the jersey came discreetly down. My brain-dead English teacher used him to explain the concept of hubris when we read Oedipus Rex. After the media storm around the trail calmed, he came and visited, and my friend took a picture of him for the school newspaper. That was my first run-in with celebrity.

The Essential Friendship Companion

Its not always easy to determine who your real friends are from the people who are just looking out for themselves. This is why I have created the Essential Friendship Companion. By using this intelligent piece of literature, you will be able to decode who your real friends are from the people who are actually just frauds.

Sexiled: Good vibrations

Awkward is one way to describe it, passionate is another way;

then again, maybe its not either of those. Maybe, for you, its actually comfortable and unexciting. But for me, its definitely the best of both worlds. I dont have to shave and he doesnt have to try to do something he is, uh, not going to be able to finish.

When I set out to write this article, I wasnt thinking that you could call services. I was thinking only about calling your boyfriend or girlfriend and rising to the occasion. Oh, how narrow-minded I have a tendency to be. I forgot all about the phone sex industry.

The Brandeis unofficial language requirement

Upon graduating high school, I thought of myself as being prepared for college. At least, I thought my academics were up to par, and that I was ready for the world of Academia. I thought that since I read the New York Times regularly and kept up with my readings in philosophy and literature, my vocabulary would be more than ready for a collegiate environment.

Senators forget responsibilities

It is after 7:30 on the night of Sunday, Oct. 28. The Senate meeting, scheduled for 7 p.m., has not yet been called to order. The reason: our representatives, our senators, have simply not shown up. Theyre watching football, getting dinner at Usdan, or at an event for another, apparently more important, extracurricular activity. The unreasonably high number of senators required for a meeting to officially be called- 11 out of a total of 21 senators.

Give the police a chance

An issue that has been devouring seemingly all of our campus discussions lately is that of arming the Brandeis police force. Sure, youre probably thinking, why do I want to hear another rant about how much some student hates/loves the idea? But this is neither of the above. And I feel personally compelled to educate the Brandeis community on this issue, as I know the Brandeis police better than many other students.

Why we must defend Hindley

By now it is probably a clich to compare Donald Hindleys situation with that of Josef K. the protagonist of Franz Kafkas The Trial. Like Josef K., Hindley stands accused of unspecified crimes which and is subject to the judgment of a mysterious tribunal. Hindley himself lent us a more apt metaphor when he described the proceedings against him using the same language with which he denounces autocratic Latin American and Southeast Asian governments in his classroom: authoritarian, secretive, and personalist.