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Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.

December 2012 Issue

Boris’ Kitchen elicits hilarity in sketch comedy festival

Boris’ Kitchen brought unparalleled sketch comedy to the SCC Theater last weekend with their 13th Annual Sketch Comedy Festival. The event spanned two days, with different guest performers at each. Friday’s troupe, EVIL, featured Boris’ Kitchen alumni Sam Roos and Amy Thompson, while Saturday brought a double-header of Yale’s The 5th Humour and Tufts’ Major: […]


Student diagnosed with active tuberculosis infection

A student diagnosed with an active case of Tuberculosis (TB) on Tuesday forced Brandeis University officials to order tests for 250 students, faculty and staff, despite little risk they believe, of the disease spreading on campus. Dr. Debra Poaster, Medical Director of the Brandeis Health Center, said the university decided to test the large number […]


Burger to make move to Middlebury

Associate Vice President of Communications Bill Burger is leaving the university for Middlebury college at the end of December. He will assume his new position as Vice President of Communications at Middlebury on Jan. 1, 2013. “I’ll leave here with many great memories of Brandeis and tremendous respect for so many of the people—staff, faculty […]


Patience in scientific discovery

NASA recently released their findings of soil samples from Mars but only after initially peddling back from their original claims. In the past month, speculation surfaced that NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered evidence potentially unveiling the possibility of life on Mars. In an interview with NPR on Nov. 13, the mission’s chief scientist, John Grotzinger, called […]