Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
This week’s Student Union election pleased members of this board for several reasons and could go a great deal toward future success of the currently dysfunctional organization. Each candidate for the post of president, especially, brought a unique story to the race in ways that may have been the causes of the extremely high and […]
Beginning this week, Community Advisers will be distributing forms for the United States census to students across campus. Federal guidelines say that since Brandeis students live in Massachusetts the majority of the year, they will fill out the national count here. We cannot stress how important it is for students to fill out the census […]
The news that the administration cancelled half of the planned Justice Brandeis Semester (JBS) programs did not come as a surprise to this editorial board. JBS coordinators extended the deadline and worked hard to sell their program, but in the end, the few students who actually knew the JBS programs existed could not justify the […]
IndieLouies a student festival through and through To the Editor, In preparation of the coming festival, and in light of the recent controversy, the IndieLouies committee would like to explain our purpose more clearly to Brandeis community. We are not withdrawing the statement on our Web site. We believe in what we said. It was […]
This editorial board was appalled by the week voter turnout in last week’s student body vote on the Constitutional Review Committee’s 11 proposed amendments. At most, only 279 students voted on these issues. Some amendments received even fewer votes, such as one to change the Constitutional review process, which yielded only 220 votes. This disparity […]
School critique comes up short To the Editor, The article, “Giving bad schools an ‘F,’” by Alex Self (March 19, 2010) fails to consider the fundamental structural causes behind the Central Falls High School debacle. Self correctly notes that Central Falls is a city of few resources, yet he does not extend this observation to […]
Dear Brandeis Facilities, Thank you for hiring a cleaning crew to shampoo carpets Tuesday afternoon. After the long weekend of students’ suffering in mold-infested, humid, wet and smelly rooms, this board is glad you could help. You are going to charge next year’s residents approximately $6,314 to live in a standard double next year (which […]
When it comes to food on campus, students are often quick to blame Aramark for the less than desirable cuisine. This week Aramark has been using the outside firm Marketmatch Research to conduct and process statistics on student dining options to change menu choices and add grab-and-go options. We view this as a step in […]
In April 2009 the Student Union Judiciary (UJ) was unable to come to a majority opinion in a case that questioned the legality of the Racial Minority Senator position. The UJ instead ruled that the fate of the Union position created in the early 1990s should be decided by the Union’s Constitutional Review Committee this […]
This board was disturbed and hurt by the vandalism to the Muslim Student Association (MSA) suite this week. We were equally disturbed and hurt by the suggestion that such actions could be blamed on “the Jews” as one individual wrote on the wall of a Facebook event created to show support for the MSA. The […]
