Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Each student at Brandeis comes across classes that they want to take but the same ones make them worry that if they do so, their GPA will suffer. Since 2006 the University Curriculum Committee (UCC) has been debating changing the reigning pass/fail system. Under this system, a student who receives any grade more than a […]
The common study abroad application deadline is contrived and unfair, and it’s time that students at Brandeis question the wisdom of the financially-motivated decision. On Feb.15, all students who seek to study abroad at Brandeis in the 2011-2012 academic year must turn in their applications. It doesn’t matter if the application for their program is […]
To the Editor, I think it’s extremely inappropriate for you to publish the picture of a student on a stretcher being taken to the hospital. In my opinion your article didn’t touch on that student and focused on the person that actually hit them and I didn’t see the point of publishing such a personal […]
A student’s negligent and careless driving hospitalized two students last month. We are outraged that this university has had no formal response or statement to the community about what happened and what we can learn from it. We are not ignorant to believe that accidents do not happen or that they may never happen to […]
The provost search committee has already received many nominations for potential replacements for Marty Krauss, who currently holds the position. The provost is one of the most influential and important people on campus. Charged with shaping the university’s academics, choosing a new provost is as important as picking a new president. But you wouldn’t know […]
As the ball dropped in Times Square this New Year’s Eve, members of the Brandeis community were greeted with a video holiday card from President Fred Lawrence and his family wishing a happy new year to all. The video is the first Lawrence has made in his time as president, and the university has already […]
Today, members of the Westboro Baptist Church from Westboro, Kans. will picket outside of Brandeis to protest the university’s Hillel organization. The church, well-known for it’s anti-gay protests during funerals of soldiers, whom they claim fight for a country of sinners is coming to our university to “remind these Jews that they bear the curse […]
Anyone who has ever lived on South Campus knows the way your heart sinks when it’s 11 p.m. and 17 degrees outside in the dead of winter and you realize you are out of orange juice for tomorrow’s breakfast. Anyone who has ever lived on South Campus knows that the up-hill walk to the C-Store […]
Too often in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we listen to speakers, activists, students and professors voice their opinions, yet these talks accomplish little to no progress. Both sides adamantly express their beliefs about Israel and its policies, yet refuse to yield any ground to the opposing and at times, equally passionate and informed side. This week […]
This week, hundreds of thousands of people traveled to Washington, D.C. to hear comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert speak at the rally to restore sanity and/or fear. Inspired by extremism in politics and bias in the media, Stewart told the crowd “if we amplify everything, we hear nothing.” We wish Stewart would say the […]
