Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
I’m on a train from Budapest to Vienna, en route to the land of wiener schnitzel, apple strudel and cafés. I can escape my life as a student in Budapest but I can’t seem to escape my overactive brain. I wonder about trains. Are they a metaphor for life? The nomadic twenty-something traveler going through […]
Beginning with this year’s Freshman class, Brandeis will offer a Lerman-Neubauer Fellowship each summer to 12 accepted prospective students who have demonstrated academic excellence during high school. Funded by a generous donation by Jeanette Lerman, Neubauer ‘69- President of J.P. Lerman & Co., former Vice President of Communications for Time Warner, and the provider for […]
All high school students have pre-conceived notions about what university life will be like; the fears, the expectations, the stereotypes. But how is life at Brandeis really shaping up for the class of 2012 first-year? Having been at school for almost a month, first-years are now truly starting to get a sense of what it […]
As a sophomore in high school, Emily Dunning assumed that she would convert to Judaism once she went to college. Since arriving at Brandeis University last year, however, Dunning, who is now a sophomore, has decided to postpone her plans for conversion. Dunning acknowledges that her delay may puzzle some because Brandeis has a large […]
The first meeting of the Advocates for Event Education and Police Instruction took place Monday in the Shapiro Multipurpose room. The club’s founder, Seth Shapiro ’09, opened the meeting by explaining the need for such an organization on campus. Commenting on the students arrested at Pachanga two weeks ago, Shapiro noted that relations between the […]
“Where you’re born in this country does affect your educational prospects,” Teach for America founder Wendy Kopp told a crowded room of students Monday night. Kopp, throughout her keynote address for Brandeis Citizenship Week, insisted that despite the dire reality of educational inequity in the United States, it is a problem that can be solved. […]
In the midst of a national financial crisis, Heller School Dean Lisa Lynch and International Business School Dean Bruce Magid discussed the domestic and international effects and made predictions about the type of economy the new president might face. Two hours before President Bush was to make a speech from Capitol Hill addressing the status […]
Samuel De Champlain may have been the illegitimate son of King Henry IV, Prof. David Hackett Fischer (HIST) announced yesterday at a reception for the release of his new book, Champlain’s Dream. Many historians have always thought that Champlain, the French explorer who founded Quebec, was not the son of the parents who raised him, […]
It was a week of very mixed results for the Brandeis women’s soccer team. On Saturday, Clark University took the Judges to overtime and sent them home with a loss with the only goal of the game. Brandeis bounced back on Wednesday, however, defeating Smith College 5-1 in a powerful performance. Saturday’s game was marked […]
All good things must come to an end. After all, the Roman Empire fell, the Beatles broke up, Clarence Thomas replaced Thurgood Marshall and the Brandeis volleyball team saw their five game winning streak come to its conclusion, bowing to undefeated Tufts 1-3. “I think we had a lot of energy in the beginning and […]
