Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Hello, my name is Morgan Gross and I can’t dance. Now, before you start with the “everyone can dance,” “you just need to try it,” “don’t be so hard on yourself” stuff, let me assure you, this isn’t some exercise in self-deprecation or fishing for compliments. I’m not secretly a ballerina, who is just trying […]
What a person wants to do with their own body is their business. Therefore, while I may not entirely understand gender reassignment surgeries, I can respect the transgendered people undergoing them and wish them well. Tommy, a resident of California, is currently taking the first steps to become Tammy. Good for him! He is a […]
The “Shalit Deal” with Hamas is not something the average Brandeis student has managed to avoid. According to the deal, Gilad Shalit was released in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners from the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Israel, some of whom returned to their homes while some were deported. The popular media in Israel continuously […]
The Brandeis women’s soccer team fell to 5-8-1 Sunday after losing to Washington University 3-0. Two days earlier, Brandeis tied the University of Chicago 1-1 in a match that was delayed for an hour and 25 minutes due to lightning. The Judges earned their first point of the season in the conference standings with their […]
Arriving at the Javits Center, located in a relatively secluded corner of Manhattan, is like stepping onto another planet. As you enter the enormous glass building, a sign hanging from the ceiling reads “Greetings, earthlings! You have landed at the 2011 New York Comic Con!” It is immediately clear that today the Javits Center—which normally […]
The Israeli government recently released approximately 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the return of Staff Sergeant Gilad Shalit, who had been held hostage by Hamas for the last five years. I am not sure, however, if this was the wisest course of action to take on the part of the Israelis. I clearly understand […]
The Brandeis cross country team returned to competition this week for the first time in nearly a month at the Albany Invitational. Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams had very strong showings with the men coming in fifth out of 21 competitors and the women coming in 10th out of 23 competitors. Both […]
I have loved books since I was a very small child. I clearly remember my parents teaching me to read as I sat on their laps and slowly sounded out words from semi-awful Step-into-Reading books. Once I got past that rudimentary process, however, I discovered books that thrilled my mind and sparked my creativity. There […]
Whoever decided that 24 hours was enough for a day was terribly unmotivated or had a particularly cruel sense of humor. (Interestingly, the term nychthemeron is the term for the consecutive 24 hours marked on the calendar as a day, while a “day” is the transitive period of sunlight.) This is why coffee is such […]
“Submarine” is an indie British comedy-drama that has recently come out on DVD. In short, it is the epitome of an indie film. The hero of this film is 15-year-old Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts), who is exactly how you would imagine an adolescent Brit to be: a tad sensitive, more than a smidge strange and, […]
