Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
I love eggplant. But until recently, I’ve been insecure cooking it. I would always order eggplant at restaurants (and I have paid for some delicious eggplant), but it seemed a shame that I couldn’t find a satisfactory way to cook one of my favorite vegetables in my own kitchen. After a bit of internet perusing […]
On March 4 the Brandeis administration will face the board of trustees to propose which academic programs should be phased out. At that time, the administration will also be faced with the decision of how to make the inevitable announcement of cuts to the world outside of Brandeis. At a faculty meeting Thursday, Dean of […]
In spite of the fact that President Jehuda Reinharz resigned over three months ago, we know little actual information about the process for choosing the next president. We do not know where the search committee stands in its process, and we do not have a list of the candidates currently under consideration. In fact, thus […]
As you may have heard, Brandeis received $9 million from the $787 billion federal stimulus package Congress passed last year, enough to fund several research projects that would have otherwise been put on hold. But not everyone approves. In his Jan. 26 column in the Justice, staff writer Avi Snyder argued that Brandeis should have […]
Almost all of us can remember spending the afternoons of our youth riding around on bicycles after school. With training wheels spinning wildly, silly grins on our faces, and a gentle wind in our hair, we cherished those spring afternoons. It is an almost universal experience, appreciated around the world. So what happened? Why in […]
Several weeks ago, I wrote about the famous mathematician John Nash and his direct connection to Brandeis as a hired research specialist for a short time in the mid-1960s. I learned about this connection from reading Sylvia Nasar’s excellent biography “A Beautiful Mind;” before that, I had no idea that Nash had been here at […]
The Russian and Chinese governments probably didn’t plan to do the United States a huge favor last week that would enable the country to quickly improve its strategic posture. But, whether they intended it or not, they did. As in the way of international politics, of course, they expressed their goodwill in a manner more […]
Five and a half years ago, a then little-known state senator from Illinois named Barack Obama declared at the 2004 Democratic National Convention that, “There is no red America, there is no blue America—there is only the United States of America.” Despite his soaring rhetoric, Obama, after one year into his presidency, has failed to […]
In the wake of Diana Aronin’s removal and breach of the student Constitution, the Student Union is reeling from both the loss of a secretary and much of its remaining campus credibility. After the fall from grace of a university-wide elected student leader and the accompanying judicial infighting, all three branches of the student government […]
