Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Wilson’s is hardly the place Brandeis students dress up for, wait for a late-night BranVan and head to with a huge group of friends. I bet most haven’t even heard of the Waltham diner; I certainly hadn’t when I stopped there for a morning breakfast Saturday. The place is small, rectangular and reminds one of […]
Sushi Yasu is a small, unpresumptious Japanese and Korean restaurant on Main Street, and makes for a delightful evening of scrumptious food and generous service. Whenever I enter a restaurant that I’ve never been to before, I pay attention to who’s sitting down and eating, so I was worried when I entered Sushi Yasu and […]
Eating the same vegetables (or, more likely, no vegetables) every day can get boring. Luckily for you, it’s fall, and there are some delicious squashes in season. Don’t like squash? You will. Squash dishes are easy to make, tasty and good for you too. Here’s one of my new favorites … BUTTERNUT SQUASH (a.k.a. Winter […]
I must admit that I was a little nervous as I stood waiting in line to ask a question of the speaker, who minutes before had captivated an audience with a short, but well-crafted and well-spoken speech. She spoke in immaculate and steady tones with little-to-no hesitation, and had a stony, contented expression that would […]
Meghan Breslin-Jewer ’11 was an athlete all through high school, but she didn’t want to participate in a varsity sport when she got to Brandeis. She was at the activities fair when she discovered the sailing team and decided to give it a try. It was only two weeks into practice that she realized sailing […]
The Social Network, if you haven’t already heard (or seen for yourself), is a real ripper of a film. Between sharp performances, a Rice Krispy script (it snap-crackle-and-pops!), and the kind of visual electricity we have come to expect from David Fincher, the whole thing is just filthy—in the good way. It could make your […]
During the past month, the Brandeis community has been the subject of many events that some may consider uncharacteristic of the university. The flasher, castle dorm thefts and credit card frauds are all examples of incidents we would like to think occur in the outside world, not at Brandeis. We like to think that here […]
In “Our politics continue to divide us” Shirel Guez misrepresents the sign put up in the Shapiro Campus Center by JewishVoice for Peace (JVP) in a way that aggrandizes Israeli and Jewish suffering and excludes the crimes perpetrated against Palestinians. The sign was JVP’s contribution to the Brandeis Zionist Alliance’s commemoration of Gilad Shalit. In […]
As a student-worker, I often feel I’m living a double life. Throughout the day, as I walk around the campus in my jeans and t-shirt, I’m greeted with friendly “hellos” and I blend in well with the other students. Come night, however, as I put on my uniform, marking myself as a dining services employee, […]
