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On Monday April 26, in the midst of a recession, Brandeis students will vote on an amendment to the Student Union Constitution that would require all students, regardless of financial background, to pay a $7.50 fee every semester to create a sustainability fund with an annual budget of $49,755. Instead of setting up a stand […]
Have you ever considered how your personal carbon footprint affects the operation of this university? Perhaps you haven’t, but you certainly should. The Brandeis Sustainability Fund (BSF) seeks to address the costs of reducing your carbon footprint through the allocation of money towards student driven initiatives and projects that show demonstrable results in reducing carbon […]
Last week I wrote about some of the questionable “truths” about Brandeis’ self image. Having mentioned housing as one of Brandeis’ deficits, I thought I’d discuss the upcoming improvements to the Charles River Apartments. This is a good thing. Improving housing during summer break when students don’t need to use it is definitely positive. The […]
Unfortunately, Howard Dean didn’t give us his latest rendition of his famous “Dean Scream” when he spoke April 15. But I’m glad I had the opportunity to hear him deliver an important warning about the coming midterm election. Dean spent a lot of time in his speech talking about youth activism during the 2008 presidential […]
On April 15, President Barack Obama traveled to Kennedy Space Center in Florida to tell National Aeronautics and Space Administration employees to begin looking for private sector jobs. He didn’t put it quite that way, but his Republican-style plans for NASA privatization carried that meaning. The president called for adding $6 billion to the NASA […]
Tanning beds have become a craze in the United States. Young people everywhere are encapsulating themselves in tanning beds in order to improve their appearances. The feasibility of using tanning beds to modify one’s body in order to feel better about one’s appearance is a controversial subject but not the one I intend to tackle […]
What is good sex? Because we all have different wants and needs, is there really a standard? Is there actually such a thing as objectively good sex? I recently discovered that some of the things I take for granted when talking about sex are not what others do. Of course on an inconsequential level, I […]
Early polling suggests that the Democrats are on shaky ground come this November. A reason for this is that this party is losing what I would like to call the populism war. A recurrent theme in American politics on both sides of the political spectrum is populism. However, the left and right diverge in regards […]
After almost failing to return this year for its seventh outing, the annual SunDeis Film Festival debuts its slate of films this weekend. Because this year’s festival did not receive its usual funding from Student Activities due to a budget crunch, its future had been in question at the beginning of the semester. However, after […]
Pinch Me In “Pinch Me,” a film by Chris Lavery ‘10 and Avi Swerdlow ‘10, a man named Jon leads a humdrum existence. He spends most of his time sleeping, has a less than enthralling job and an awfully noisy neighbor. Luckily, he has a wonderful girlfriend. There’s only one problem: she disappears every time […]
