Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Emory University Professor Emerita Frances Smith Foster was formally awarded this year’s Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize Tuesday, in Rapaporte Treasure Hall. As a co-recipient of the prize with Stanford University historian Clayborne Carson, Foster is an authority on African American family life and slavery narratives, and has published more than a dozen books […]
Dear Leah and Morgan, I have never had any problems with roommates in the past. After the housing lottery left my friends and me with less-than-ideal numbers, we decided to move off campus together. Everything was great at the beginning of the semester, but as the year has progressed I have been having problems with […]
The Brandeis Sephardic Initiative hosted a henna night Thursday, to educate students about the centuries-old practice of henna applications in the Sephardi Jewish tradition. The Brandeis Sephardic Initiative is in its second semester on campus. A cultural club under the Hillel umbrella, they are dedicated to Sephardic culture, and are open to anybody, whether they’re […]
At the Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery, urgency has prompted an art sale. Sound familiar? The gallery located at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kan., has announced it will be selling a 1919 still life by Marsden Hartley, which one expert told the Kansas City Star was the “crown jewel” of the collection. The estimated proceeds range […]
After eating turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie during Thanksgiving break, coming back to dining hall food was not easy. I had forgotten what it felt like to eat without having to show anyone your ID, without having to count how much money your food would cost in order to decide if you were […]
Children pepper sprayed in the face. Pregnant women shoved to the ground. Men trampled to death. Frenzied rioters just daring the police to step in and stop them. But don’t be mistaken—these are not downtrodden people fighting an oppressive government for the rights we consider basic to living; no, these are heartless people fighting each […]
One of the first changes I made when I came to college was shifting a majority of my purchases from trips to the store to a few clicks on my computer. I didn’t have a car, the Boston shuttle equaled a three-hour round-trip if I caught successive shuttles and being a college student didn’t erase […]
Hello. My name is Morgan Gross and I may or may not be addicted to my iPhone. To understand how this happened—it certainly hasn’t always been this way—we must go back a few weeks in time. I have been a BlackBerry owner, tried and true, for years. While I have always been reliant on my […]
Embarrassing but true: my Ohio accent is stronger when I’m talking to cute boys. Oh-high-oh becomes Oh-hao and all of my syllables slur together, just enough that my speech becomes the Midwestern version of a Southern drawl. I tilt my head, put my hands on my hips, and speak with the “powerless language” that women […]
Books and I, we get along well but I treat them terribly. I turn down pages, I spill coffee and leave greasy fingerprints in the corners. I flip pages too quickly and leave little tears at the bottom of every page. And the worst habit of all, I collect them compulsively. I hoard them, pack […]
