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Amid criticism over severe service cuts, the MBTA revised its budget proposal last week in a change that would raise fares an average of 23 percent but only result in minor service cuts. The price of the commuter rail and the 553 and 554 buses that many commuting students use will experience a fare hike […]
Brandeis has instituted a system of emergency text messaging designed to send students “pre-defined messages to match the situation,” according to John Turner, director of networks and systems at LTS. After the initial message, he explained the system allows staff members “to send follow-up messages with more details.” Turner also stated how the system was […]
Dean Lisa Lynch of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management announced that this year’s commencement speaker will be Nobel Prize-winning economist and philosopher Amartya Sen. Sen is the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences; this year’s recipient of the National Humanities Medal; and Lamont Professor of Economics and Philosophy at […]
The play “Hedda Gabler” by Henrik Ibsen was put on last weekend by Free Play in the Mandel atrium. The show was put on to almost universal derision due to incredibly poor emoting, misinterpretations of the play itself and inconsistent acting. This may or may not be due to poor casting—it was difficult to tell […]
More than a month since the Feb. 26 shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by 28-year-old George Zimmerman in Sanford, Fla., many questions remain. These questions vary from the complex legal ones concerning “hate crime” and the efficacy of “stand your ground” laws, to the more mundane question of simply what happened. There are also concerns […]
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick met with raucous applause at Brandeis’ annual Global Trade Summit last Tuesday. He praised his own administration’s successes in the world economy and its recuperation in the country’s technology and business sectors. Education, one of Patrick’s three main talking points at the summit, is currently the most contentious. With a 5 […]
As a first-year student at Brandeis, Shayna Palmer ’15 has already seized initiative, sharing her passion for yoga with her peers. Palmer teaches four yoga classes every week to the diverse assemblage of students who attend these sessions as part of her work-study program. Palmer confessed that “initially, you couldn’t get me in a yoga […]
A few days ago, at Women in the World Summit hosted by Newsweek and The Daily Beast, Nobel Peace Prize-winner and Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee asked an important question: “Where are the angry American women? In all honesty, I’ve also been watching the men talk about your reproductive issues and saying: Why are these […]
This past week the Brandeis University softball team went through a gauntlet of games playing four double-headers. They went 5-3 in this stretch once again to reach .500 with a record of 8-8 (3-5 UAA). In the first double-header, the team split a pair of games with Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). In the opening game, […]
This past weekend foilist Julian Cardillo ’14 finished 19th out of 24 foil fencers at the NCAA Collegiate Fencing championships at Ohio State University. Cardillo is currently majoring in politics with a minor in journalism. Aside from fencing, he is also involved with WBRS and BCLU. Cardillo, who placed 17th in the championships last year, […]
