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Tomorrow, in its first case of the semester, the Union Judiciary will consider the constitutionality of using a Senate Money Resolution to finance a club event. Class of 2009 Senator Eric Alterman filed the case after Class of 2011 Senators and Democracy for America club members Alex Melman and Lev Hirshhorn proposed that the Union […]
At yesterday’s faculty meeting, the faculty voted to support the creation of a business major at Brandeis. The Board of Trustees will make the final decision later this month. The faculty voted correctly, and it is our hope that the Trustees follow suit. Certainly, there has been concern about the creation of a business major. […]
Student Union must reverse Ayers Senate Money Resolution decision Dear Editor, Part nine of section one of article nine in the Student Union bylaws states, “All Senate Money Resolutions must be used for Student Union Government projects and/or operations.” This past Sunday, the Student Union Senate voted to pass a Senate Money Resolution to provide […]
I was sitting by Massell pond on an oddly warm April evening when I received a call from Brian, one of my best friends and an unfaltering Mets fan, Frank Sinatra guru, and a life-long baseball player. He asked if I had time to talk, a question that had always prefaced our “heart-to-hearts.” However none […]
The most important rule in chess is associated with the only word that chess reliably contributes to everyone’s vocabulary – checkmate. A player wins if the other player’s king is threatened and escape is impossible. Chess metaphors are understandably often used in discussions of war. But the rules of chess and war are very different […]
Heard about the Fairness Doctrine controversy lately? Rush Limbaugh, conservative political commentator and “intellectual leader” (read: really loud voice) of the Republican Party, wants you to think that the Fairness Doctrine is coming back. On Election Day, after hearing Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) appear on Fox News to offer a defense of the Doctrine, he […]
Newspapers across the country are suffering. The combination of an ailing economy and the presence of the internet has resulted in drastically reduced revenues, and has forced many papers to close. The Rocky Mountain News in Denver is one of the latest and most well known newspapers to shut down due to financial trouble. The […]
As was bound to happen, Taylor Swift and I have had a falling out. Do not get me wrong, the small country portion of my soul still enjoys her music, but the rest of me is starting to have a huge problem with her attitude, most specifically how she relates to men. Taylor likes to […]
I absolutely, positively, hate social niceties. If there is one thing that I detest most about our modern society, it is the fact that we have to delude ourselves with the presentation of norms, dedicated to presenting ourselves as courteous and pleasant. But these devices only turn us into disingenuous automatons, because we are masking […]
Photo gallery for the Career Fair. We’ve seen it in the cutbacks at school. We’ve seen it in the statistics on the number of people losing their jobs every week. The hurting economy is all around us, but we have not yet been subject to the full force of what President Obama has called “the […]
