Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Most Brandeis students are involved in many groups and activities, and know firsthand the challenges of planning and promoting a large event without being certain of the amount of people that will actually attend. This is where Ethan Stein ’15 and two of his high school friends, Gabriel Schwartz and Nathan Shams, saw an opportunity […]
It’s true, what we heard at our first day of orientation: There is no experience quite like the Brandeis experience. Growing up, my parents raised me with the traditional ideals of what many Chinese daughters experience: to be quiet and docile, to play the violin and piano, to achieve straight As in school, and to […]
I better just come out of the closet and say it. I am a divestment campaign skeptic. For those of you who don’t know, the divestment campaign is an effort by a group of students to get Brandeis to stop investing in fossil fuel companies. This, supposedly, will pressure the oil companies to invest in […]
Debbie Chachra, materials scientist and associate professor of materials science at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, presented the final lecture of a three-part series titled “Art of Science.” She discussed the vast realm of technological innovations that have permitted scientists to explore 3D printing, buildings without right angles and inspiration from the intricate structures […]
HBI Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law (GCRL) hosted a panel on Monday for the Gendered Rights conference, titled “Trends in Sex Segregation: Israel, America and Beyond.” Sylvia Barack Fishman, the co-director of HBI, moderated the panel, and Elana Maryles Sztokman, executive director of Jewish rthodox feminist alliance, began the panel by discussing […]
Recently in America, debates about gun rights have raged through social discourse. But why should so much debate over this issue exist? After all, the constitution does clearly say, the right to bear arms shall not be infringed. It shouldn’t be possible to argue with such an unequivocal statement. This commonplace paraphrasing of the second […]
An annual celebration of community and creativity through the arts, “Bahrain/Brandeis: Ulafa’a Reconciliation Art Project Recasting Reconciliation through Culture and Arts” was performed in Pearlman Lounge last Tuesday as a part of the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts. Presented by the Ethics Center and sponsored by both the Brandeis Peacebuilding and the Arts […]
Directed by Brian Haungs ’15, the production of “I Love You Because” presented by Tympanium Euphorium intertwined humor and the classic hardships of romance. Although the choreography and singing capabilities were mediocre, performers playing secondary roles truly stole the show. The musical itself, “I Love You Because,” portrayed the need to cast aside any plans […]
HBI Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law (GCRL) hosted a panel on Monday for the Gendered Rights conference, titled “Trends in Sex Segregation: Israel, America and Beyond.” Sylvia Barack Fishman, the co-director of HBI, moderated the panel, and Elana Maryles Sztokman, executive director of Jewish rthodox feminist alliance, began the panel by discussing […]
Brandeis students, including three BEMCo EMTs, were in attendance at the Boston Marathon on Monday, when two bombs exploded in the crowd. All of the students were safe and unharmed after the blasts. Hannah Goldberg ’13, director and supervisor of BEMCo, mentioned that volunteering at the Boston Marathon is something BEMCo has done for years. […]
