Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
This week, the university began interviewing candidates to fill former Senior Vice President of Communications Lorna Miles’ vacancy. Though it would save the university a substantial sum to leave the position empty, the financial gain would not offset the potential disaster a vacancy might cause. With the possibility of litigation on the horizon with a […]
For 26 years, host LeVar Burton of PBS’s “Reading Rainbow” used his show to do what some would consider difficult, if not downright impossible in this increasingly technology-soaked world—teach children the joy of reading. First aired in 1983, the show’s episodes had a simple, but reliable pattern. Each one featured a children’s book chosen in […]
Over the past couple of years, Brandeis University’s administration has shown itself to be an enemy of liberty and consistently untrustworthy through its arrogant abrogation of student and faculty rights. The policies under President Jehuda Reinharz have led to disastrous relations between the administration and those whom it represents. As a new school year dawns, […]
Welcome back. How was your summer? Did you go to Israel? Well, I was here over the summer, and was privy to many of the changes that the campus underwent. So, it isn’t finished yet, but the new Admissions center is looking pretty good. Not necessarily in terms of style, but in terms of the […]
When Edward M. Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts, died last Wednesday morning from brain cancer, America lost a true giant, a man both highly gifted and deeply flawed, one who knew triumph and tragedy in equal measure. While there have been many eulogies both great and small in the days and weeks following his death, I […]
There was an abundance of policymaking advice available for sampling earlier this week as various experts uncorked their wares and invited decision makers and the media to take a sip. Their produce came from fields far and wide– climate change, public health and Afghanistan. The general public is not formally excluded from these tastings of […]
By the end of Spring ’09 after the collapse of several banks and insurers, the dozens of Chapter 11 filings, the more than $30 trillion that got vaporized on Wall Street (or a decade worth of gains), the huge stimulus package by the government, the Ponzi schemes, and of course, the media paranoia, everyone was […]
What do an American Studies professor’s interviews with feminist activists have in common with a computer science professor’s Stradivarius-model cello? And what does a Legal Studies professor’s research on Icelandic literature have to do with any of this? On the surface, not much. But none of these things would have come to be if not […]
Only two first-year students had initially signed up to be in the talent show. It was the end of the summer and several Brandeis students were gathered with their instructors for an ice cream social, coupled with a talent show. It had been a summer filled with intense academic rigor and cultural enrichment, and this […]
It’s not every day that a player comes along who will end up in the record books as one of the all-time leading scorers for your team. It certainly isn’t every rookie who can put up ten goals and four assists in a season. Nor could it be expected that the same rookie would go […]
