Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
In the midst of heavy criticism of the administration, distress over the impending closing of the Rose Art Museum, and various protest events, it is easy to forget one important and positive development in the budget crisis saga – the Brandeis Plans wiki. The wiki, which can be found at wiki.cs.brandeis.edu/faculty/index.php?title=Main_Page, is an outlet for […]
Dear Editor, I was deeply disturbed by Bret Matthew’s latest article “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Healthcare, Part 2” (Jan. 23, 2009). It is one thing to have a personal dislike of a certain kind of medicine, but dispensing actual medical advice without any actual authority to do so, either professional or moral, is […]
For most students, aging entails legal drinking, independence and an expanding range of new possibilities at its best. At its worst comes the need to retire pajamas and Birkenstocks on weekdays or a necessity to survive parties without the aid of student-run medical organizations like BemCo. Birthdays, therefore, are usually prime reasons for celebration. For […]
Brandeis University takes pride in its diversity. Beyond the verbal emphasis in Brandeis’ mission statement, students are recruited from around the globe and represent different cultures, systems of beliefs and socio-economic backgrounds. However, age remains a constant as most Brandeis students belong to a single generation. Yet this may not be for long with the […]
The Rose Art Museum is a core part of Brandeis University. It houses some of the most important works of our time, many of them directly tied to our history. Amongst other works, the collection houses a portrait by Salvador Dali of Louis Sachar, our founding President’s brother, and a portrait by Andy Warhol of […]
I’d never been in the Rose Art Museum before. A good friend of mine had worked there for a few years and had told me many a story about the exciting exhibits he’d seen pass through the museum and the wonderful people who worked there. I’d been meaning to stop by for a tour, but […]
“To be eligible to run for an elected Union office, a student must be… [s]tudying on the Waltham campus for the entire period in which s/he will hold office.” — Article IX, Section 1 of the Brandeis University Student Union Constitution. My name is Adam Hughes, and up until two weeks ago, I was the […]
Throughout high school, I dreamed that college would be something like a vignette from Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland: a buzzing institution of the People’s Republic of Rock and Roll, where professors were all brilliant victims of the Nixonian reaction, radicals planned secession, and every moment was documented by the Death to Pigs Nihilist Film Kollective. Upon […]
It is no exaggeration to say that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is one of the most important and most powerful regulatory agencies in the United Sates government. Overseeing a full twenty-five percent of all consumer products sold each year—including food (but not meat and poultry), medicine, cosmetics, radiation-emitting devices, blood products, […]
