Entropy
Entropy…
Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
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September 2008 Issue
What is going on in the world?
People, WAKE UP! These are “interesting” times to read the news, we are living history. Changes all over the world are taking place. Below is a brief list of some of the issues that I believe everyone should be aware of. Then, I will try to explain how all of them might be inter-related, after […]
Just three questions
Two thousand years ago the great Rabbi Hillel posed three rhetorical questions. In the first he asks, “If I am not for myself, who will be for me?” With these words Hillel demands that we as individuals must make our well being our top priority. While we can hope that others will look out for […]
A Few Words on Anarchy and America
A spectre is haunting America – the spectre of the unreconstructed individual. He cannot, and will never be, a cog in the machine of other’s grand designs. The current electoral season, reported as a clash of worldviews, obscures the incredible consensus achieved by the ruling oligarchy: that the individual has no place outside of the […]
POYA: Miscellaneous shit
Haters: Oh no, he said “shit”! That means he’s just trying to be inflammatory without having any actual ideas! Critics: He used the term “haters”! That means he’s a wigger! Intellectuals: Why the racially charged dichotomy between “haters” and “critics”? Many people?: What is this pretentious meta art school shit? This revolution would not have […]
Tech Talk: New PC commercials, Canon 5D Mk II, and Hacking Sarah Palin’s email
With Max Shay and Josh Waizer
Ridgewood lodging license approved
The Waltham Licenses and Franchises Committee approved a lodging house license for the Ridgewood Residence Halls at their meeting Monday night after a lengthy discussion about student behavior and discipline. Brandeis first requested the lodging house license at the Waltham City Council meeting Sept. 8. At that meeting, their request prompted concern and annoyance from […]
Hughes wins VP election
In Wednesday’s special vice presidential election, Adam Hughes ’11, who came in second place in the primary on Monday, defeated opponent Andrew Brooks ’09. Hughes won with 524 votes to Brooks’ 360 votes. 29 students registered an abstention vote. The election, which was announced at the beginning of the month after the resignation of former […]
Five students arrested at Pachanga
At Saturday night’s Pachanga, Waltham police officers arrested and charged one Brandeis student with assault and battery of a police officer while Waltham and Public Safety officers placed four students in protective custody due to excessive intoxication, according to Director of Public Safety Ed Callahan. The arrested student was charged at a preliminary hearing Monday […]
