Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
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 […]
The Brandeis men’s golf team has returned this fall thanks to a hard fought battle to stay alive last spring. Coach Bill Shipman has returned for his eighth season as head coach in addition to his role as head coach of both men’s and women’s fencing. Lee Bloom ’10 has taken over the role as […]
The image gallery for this game can be found here Women’s soccer started off their season with a big win against MIT. Sofia Vallone ’11, scored in the first eight minutes of play for the Judges, assisted by Mimi Theodore ’12, and Brandeis would not fall behind again for the rest of the game. In […]
Many people have heard of Rafael Nadal, the Spanish tennis player, if not for his style of play on the courts then for his haircut. The one thing that has kept me from jumping on the Nadal train for all these years was the shoulder length locks that, by the end of every match, looked […]
