Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Usually when you think of a concert, you think of guitars, drums, a jazz band, an orchestra. That wasn’t the case Thursday when Basic Physics and AraabMUZIK took the stage at Levin Ballroom, complete with six-foot-tall speaker towers and spinning light projections, blasting waves of synthetic hip hop sound that left concert-goers half deaf and […]
Newly opened Linsey Pool closed last Saturday, Feb. 4, following an incident involving a Brandeis student requiring medical assistance after swimming laps in pool temperatures that reached more than 95 degrees Fahrenheit. Though the pool is now open and has returned to a normal temperature, staff felt it necessary to discontinue service for the remainder […]
NBC’s “Heroes” began well but truly fizzled out by its second season. Despite this, Fox is giving producer Tim Kring another chance with his new show “Touch,” which had an early premiere last month. “Touch” focuses on Martin Bohm (Kiefer Sutherland), a man struggling to make ends meet and to connect with his seemingly autistic […]
Last Friday, for the first time in my life, I felt old while playing a videogame. “The Simpsons Arcade Game” had just been re-released as a port on XBox Live. It was the same game I had played every chance I could get in a real arcade when I was a kid, no matter how […]
‘The Artist’ “The Artist” is a very intriguing film. It is a silent movie done in traditional silent film style, including actors using pantomime and overly expressive facial expressions that are typical in the silent movie genre. The topic of the movie, however, is inherently modern in that it follows the life and career of […]
The first ’Deis Impact highlighted the university’s social justice mission statement this week, with speaker events, question-and-answer panels and workshops. Faculty and students joined forces in discussions to address social justice in the Brandeis curriculum across departmental lines. “Social Justice” is a popular cause at Brandeis, though its definition is often ambiguous. In a round-table […]
If you haven’t yet seen “Sh*t Brandeis Students Don’t Say,” then you may actually have been helped by the Hiatt Career Center or be the lone kid in the stands at the Judges game. The video created by four Brandeis students pokes fun at more than 100 you-have-to-go-to-Brandeis-to-get-it stereotypes and has been viewed more than […]
Too often we say things without truly thinking about them first. We are all guilty of it. I am guilty of a fair number of these and am trying to kick myself of the habit. Most often these oral faux pas occur because we have been programmed to say these things; certain words and phrases […]
If administrators have their way, volume 51 will be the last for my high school’s newspaper. Plans are underway to shutter Denebola, the paper that has informed members of the Newton South High School community in Newton, Mass., since the school first opened in 1960. The plan comes on the heels of the decision across […]
Yoni Appelbaum is taking history into the 21st century. With a dissertation at Brandeis, a position at the Atlantic, and a lecture series at Babson College, Appelbaum is exploring one of the greatest conflicts of American history. The Civil War, he says, is still alive in the collective imagination and he works “to trace the […]
