Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
The annual SunDeis Film Festival will take place in late April and early May and will be sponsored by the Film Studies Department, reflecting Student Activities’ inability to organize the program this year. Student Activities, usually one of the main organizers of the event, but due to a lack of funding they will not sponsor […]
The Brandeis Academic Debate and Speech Society (BADASS) and its newly elected executive board is off to a successful semester following a sixth place individual win at New York University (NYU) and two members’ attendance at the Worlds Council competition. Over the holiday break, Evan Green-Lowe ’10 and Jackie Saffir ’10 travelled to Istanbul to […]
Last week this editorial board could find no better way to express our dissatisfaction with the Student Union than to depict it in an editorial cartoon as a chicken with its head cut off. But if the Union was bumbling and disoriented last week, this week it is completely without a clue. Two weeks ago […]
The housing gods have answered our prayers: Charles River, a.k.a. Grad, is finally getting a makeover. Built in 1972 the Grad apartments, known to some students as Stalin-Grad for it’s resemblance to Communist block housing, have long been the subject of much student lamentations. The buildings are not only unpleasant to look at, they are […]
Sex works differently in college than it does in other places. At a place like Brandeis, more likely than not, once you get into a group of friends you either find someone you like and stick with them, or you end up sleeping with more than one person in your circle. Like anywhere, it’s easier […]
Steve Jobs is a brilliant gentleman who has created a company that is “different”—its brand alone is worth millions. Apple has become an avant-garde company in industrial organization, hardware and software design. Jobs has been the main architect behind the creation of Apple. He is some kind of mystic wizard who has managed to create […]
Liberals are in a collective state of dread and anxiety over the 2010 midterm elections. Each day, they hear reports of Democratic congressmen from swing districts retiring or polls suggesting a senator from their party will lose his or her next election. There are a myriad of reasons to account for why this is happening: […]
To say romance is dead would be an overstatement, but it is in a noticeable decline. When was the last time you noticed a “spark” in your relationships? Have you ever? That’s my point. It seems many people have not. In the world we live in–the world of hooking up and the word “hott”–real relationships […]
Democrats attempting to green the country by convincing skeptical Republicans that global warming exists are simply wasting their time. Convincing Republicans takes more work than necessary, and there are other means of getting to the desired end than debating. For one, skepticism in global warming is understandable. While most scientists agree global warming exists, there […]
“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins,” wrote Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his 1849 story “Kavanagh,” but “it is less difficult to know that it has begun.” Cupid’s arrows flew over the political landscape in strange ways in recent weeks, but an examination of their paths reveals a pattern that would fit […]
