Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
I have a very one-track mind when it comes to sports, which means I tend to focus on one sport at a time. Luckily for me my two favorite sports, baseball and hockey, have very little overlap. One of the few times is October, but now that my team is out of the playoffs, I […]
After their come from behind win against Colby-Sawyer last Thursday to reach the .500 mark for the first time this season, the men’s soccer team dropped their game at home against Rochester on Saturday 2-1 and their match up against Babson on Tuesday 3-2. With the two losses the team drops to 4-6-1 for the […]
Both Brandeis cross country teams performed well at the Open New England Championships at Franklin Park in Boston over the weekend. The men finished 11th overall, third amongst Division III schools, while the women were 20th overall and sixth in Division III. This was the best showing for the men since 1998 when they also […]
It’s a cool, Monday morning; 11:15 a.m., Columbus Day. Most Brandeis employees have the day off. Those who have been here have been at work a mere two hours and 15 minutes. Not facilities worker Mike Flood, though. Flood has been at work in the Usdan Student Center since 5 a.m. He was also here […]
‘Tis the season for papers and, at Brandeis, ’tis also the season for complaining about grades. This school introduced me to the notion that when an instructor puts a grade other than “A” on a student’s work, he has not actually assigned a grade. Instead, the instructor has knocked a chip off the student’s shoulder […]
A convicted felon with a history of mental instability walks into a gun show. He goes up to an assault weapons vendor, and buys two automatics, one semi-automatic, and a couple of handguns. Do you really want to hear what happens next? If not, then you’re like the many Americans who want the gun show […]
J Street is a recently formed lobby that wants to “change the direction of American policy in the Middle East,” with their motto being “pro-peace, pro-Israel.” Alan Solomont, one of the founders of J Street, believes that the United States government has only “…heard the voices of neocons, and right-of-center Jewish leaders and Christian evangelicals, […]
With all the commotion surrounding the decision to award President Obama with the Nobel Peace Prize, I can only imagine how that decision was made… At a meeting of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway: The portrait of Alfred Nobel occupied a prominent position high on the wall of the Norwegian Nobel Committee room. […]
