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Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.

January 2010 Issue

2009: The year in music

2009 has brought us the end of the decade, and some pretty awesome tunes to boot. While you’re trying to remember that dates end in 2010 now, there’s still time to catch up on 2009’s best new music. As far as pop goes, it was an interesting year, and while Lady Gaga continued her neo-Madonna […]


Broc and Roll: Adventures in Chinese cooking

Sunday evening, a few friends and I decided to make a pilgrimage to H-Mart in Burlington. H-Mart is an Asian grocery store the likes of which I had never seen. It is a cross between a massive supermarket, food court and weird mall. If you’re so inclined, you can get dinner at the food court, […]


Learning from our mistakes

Wednesday evening, the Board of Trustees announced that the university must make substantial cuts to its academic programs in order to tackle a persistent multi-million dollar budget shortfall. After summarily rejecting last semester’s budget trimming suggestions courtesy of CARS, the university community will no longer be able to hem and haw over possibilities. We will […]


Aronin trial a call for change

This sunday, Union Secretary Diana Aronin ’11 will be tried by the Union Judiciary after being impeached by the Senate on Dec. 6 for allegedly failing to put a Constitutional amendment for the creation of a midyear senator position to the student body for a vote. This trial could result in the removal of Aronin […]


Democrats should be for free speech

At the time of publication, I have been assaulted with news of epic proportions and far-reaching political ramifications. It was predicted beforehand, though at one time unthinkable, and the conclusion alters decades of elections norm. And no, it’s not that Scott Brown beat Martha Coakley. (Maybe we’ll have an equally smart and progressive candidate with […]


John Nash and Brandeis

One does not need to be at Brandeis very long to feel the pervasive influence of some of the great thinkers who have come to and from our school. From the artistic festival dedicated to Leonard Bernstein to the semi-frequent visits from Thomas Friedman, the university works hard weaving its relatively short but highly illustrious […]


Book of Matthew: A brief (sort of) history of the filibuster in American politics

SENATE PRESIDENT: The Chair recognizes Senator Smith! SENATOR SMITH: Thank you sir. Well, I guess the gentlemen are in a pretty tall hurry to get me out of here. The way the evidence has piled against me, I can’t say I blame them much. And I’m quite willing to go, sir, when they vote it […]


Borde-nough: The stroke of midnight in Haiti

A whole lot of nothing occurred when the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced last week that it was resetting its “Doomsday Clock” to six minutes before midnight, a minute further from Doomsday. The value of the Clock’s measurements, it turns out, depends upon how well the Clock is calibrated. The news media’s output these last […]


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