Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Massachusetts banned texting while driving last September; yet, law enforcement officials have struggled to enforce the new law during the past year, with police in the state issuing one texting citation for every 200 speeding tickets, The Boston Globe reported this week. The law banned cell phone usage while driving for drivers younger than 18 […]
Anita Hill has been named the senior advisor to the provost, just as she prepares to keynote a conference in her honor in New York City on Saturday to mark the 20-year anniversary of her infamous testimony accusing the then-nominee of sexual harassment. Hill, the former Senate witness against Justice Clarence Thomas and professor at […]
As college students and middle-class Americans, inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement, join in the spread of protests against corporate greed, the Brandeis International Business School offers its students a different model of the role business can play in society. In line with the university’s long-standing pillar of social justice, professors at the business […]
Dining service workers and Aramark have resolved the contract negotiations that dragged through the summer and into the new school year. According to Dana Simon, UNITE HERE union representative, the corporation’s final offer was generous and ceded to many of the workers’ demands. A few weeks ago, the negotiations slowed over health care conflicts with […]
Before a Jeep Patriot swerved onto the wrong side of an upstate New York highway and collided with a GMC dump truck on a rainy July afternoon, Jordan Zides ’14 was enjoying the typical college summer—working as a counselor at Camp Echo Lake in Warrensburg before his return to Waltham for classes and soccer in […]
With work zones marked all across campus, it is hard not to notice the several construction projects, which have been happening all around Brandeis during the first few weeks of the semester. These projects have included regular campus maintenance and upkeep initiatives, along with more high profile ones—including the much-awaited work on the Linsey pool, […]
The United States is not often thought of as a country suffering from hunger but, according to a recent report from the Center for American Progress and Brandeis professor Donald Shepard (HS), 48.8 million Americans live in households without an adequate supply of food. The new report extends and updates a study that was published […]
Upper Crust Pizzeria, which owns a location on Moody Street in Waltham, has come under federal scrutiny after allegations arose concerning the exploitation of its immigrant workers. According to the Boston Globe earlier this year, the Department of Labor began investigating the company again after it began to rescind the payments it was compelled to […]
Brandeis holiday schedules have become part of the fabric of the university we all love and attend. Students especially love the days off regardless of whether they are celebrating them as Jewish holidays or simply taking a much-needed break from classes. The dining schedules that accompany them, however, are an example of the very worst […]
This editorial board approves of any outside positive publicity for Brandeis. Really—if they have an award ceremony somewhere for Most Peppy Admissions Counselors or if there can be a national headline celebrating Brandeis as the single best of all the schools in the nation with liberal, inaugural Jewish Supreme Court justices as namesakes—that would be […]
