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University President Jehuda Reinharz’s choice of Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren as commencement speaker has been called too divisive a choice for an occasion that is supposed to unite the senior class in their last moments at Brandeis. In order to help avoid similar protests about what singer-songwriter Paul Simon should perform at the ceremony, here’s […]
The events at Michael Oren’s February appearance at the University of California, Irvine were an embarrassment for the school and for its students. The Israeli Ambassador to the United States was interrupted ten times throughout the course of his speech and school administrators pleaded with those in attendance to stop the protests to no avail. […]
The backers of the Restoring American Financial Stability Act now before Congress seem to have their hearts in the right place. A seemingly well-intentioned President Barack Obama told an audience in Quincy, Illinois, on April 28 what he thought the law would accomplish. “Accountability—which means no more bailouts. Closing loopholes—no more trading of things like […]
Not since World War II has the world seen a conflict as deadly as the one currently raging in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is beyond comprehension. Imagine boys younger the age of 15 being taken from their homes and forced to kill by their abductors—and used as human shields if they are […]
Having slogged through health care, and with immigration and climate change next up on the agenda, the United States Congress currently finds itself embroiled in the debate over financial regulation. Virtually everyone agrees that something must be done; unfortunately, exactly what that something is remains contested. For the moment the Democrats are quite happy to […]
It is 2:00 a.m. I am holding a café latte in hand and staring at the blank word page on my computer screen. I take a break (from the hard work of staring at the screen) and read some useless stuff. Now back to “writing.” Still nothing. Just another night at Brandeis, wondering what to […]
I recently went on a nighttime foray to Einsteins. I went because my floormates had informed me that at 2 in the morning (Einsteins’ closing time), Einsteins gives away all of the bagels that it didn’t sell during the day. Apparently, there’s a tradition on my floor of receiving a half dozen free bagels which […]
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Our right to free speech is granted in the First […]
It may seem as though we’re too young to have the overwhelming, all-consuming relationships and love stories that we are bombarded with all the time in movies, literature and other formats. However, this is most certainly not the case. We’ve all seen it—a friend gets into a relationship, and suddenly you’re like, “Bob who?” As […]
