Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Founded last semester, the Mixed Heritage Club (MHC) provides an outlet for the mixed heritage community at Brandeis and for those who would like to share in the mixed heritage experience. Last Tuesday’s showcase provided attendees an inside look on what being of mixed heritage truly means. “In Mixed Company” began with a dynamic group […]
After four years, Aussie pop star Kiley Minogue released her new album X this past Tuesday. The album has been in wide release in Europe and the UK since November 26, and doing very well there. Minogue has had a very successful career throughout her lifetime. In 1988, “The Loco-Motion” swept the States as well […]
So I watched Predator last night. You know – the movie where an invisible alien hunter stalks and kills Arnold Schwarzenegger and some slightly less muscular guys in the jungle? I must say, I rarely enjoy a movie as much as I enjoy Predator. Don’t get me wrong in calling it a great movie or […]
The Brandeis Theater Company took a tremendous risk about a year ago by placing The Orphan of Zhao, an adaptation of a Chinese folk tale, on the bill for the 2007-2008 season. It’s always a gamble to try translating a story across languages (let alone cultures) that are so widely different. The resulting production could […]
In most card games, a King trumps a Queen, but this week Madonna and Mariah Carey proved that two queens is pretty hard to beat. Both divas managed to set records previously held by Elvis Presley. Carey’s new single, “Touch My Body,” is currently number one on the Billboard charts, making it Carey’s 18th single […]
The injustices of this world are not made by those who do nothing by rather by those who in innocence overlook the injustice being done before their very eyes. Humanity claims that the Earth is our world, our treasure but we do not treasure it as we should. It would be better if we did […]
According to a recent article on online indie music publication, Pitchfork Media, the radio industry has fundamentally changed since the heyday of English DJ, John Peel. Essentially, Peel felt that his mission was to educate and inform listeners in addition to entertaining them, exposing them to sounds and styles with which they might not be […]
This Thursday March 3, 2008, an interfaith dialogue was facilitated within Chums Coffeehouse. At the crux of a deliberation and investigation of religion, how it plays a role in constructing one’s own truths as well as one’s own reality, was a performance by Brandeis’ own Playback Theater Society. The troupe, led by current sophomore Etta […]
Brandeis student organizations in possession of P-cards are currently dealing with the cancellation of all current P-cards. This comes in the wake of the hack into Hannaford supermarkets’ security systems, in which hackers obtained credit card information from cards used in New England and New York. The P-card is a credit card issued by the […]
Union Treasurer Choon Woo Ha ’08 and President Shreeya Sinha ’09 will present a plan to address the problem of excess SAF money to the Union Senate Sunday. This fiscal year, there is approximately $170,000 of “unintentional rollover,” Ha explained in an e-mail message. Unintentional rollover, Ha explained, consists of F-board allocated money unspent by […]
