Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Franco Garcia, 21, a student at Boston College (BC) and West Newton resident, has been missing since Feb. 22, and police have no leads as to his whereabouts. Garcia, who lives with his parents in West Newton, studies chemistry, plays clarinet in the symphony and plays trombone in the marching band at BC. He was […]
President Frederick Lawrence has appointed George Wachter ’73 the new chair of the Rose Museum’s board of overseers. Wachter is currently the chairman of Sotheby’s North and South America, the world-famous New York auction house. Wachter is not “entirely sure” what the job entails, he said, as he’s “never done it before.” But he says […]
Professor Clayborne Carson of the African-American Studies Department at Stanford University came to Brandeis on Tuesday to receive the Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize. The award, named in honor of the late sociology professor Joseph Gittler and his mother Toby Gittler, recognizes “outstanding and lasting scholarly contributions to racial, ethnic and/or religious relations” according […]
Listen here: Sound Off: Discussing mental health at Brandeis Almost exactly a year ago, the Brandeis community was sent into shock when Kat Sommers, a freshman, committed suicide. Her death not only left a hole in the Brandeis community, but it also brought up a rarely discussed topic: the mental health of college students. The Hoot […]
Newly opened Linsey Pool closed last Saturday, Feb. 4, following an incident involving a Brandeis student requiring medical assistance after swimming laps in pool temperatures that reached more than 95 degrees Fahrenheit. Though the pool is now open and has returned to a normal temperature, staff felt it necessary to discontinue service for the remainder […]
If you haven’t yet seen “Sh*t Brandeis Students Don’t Say,” then you may actually have been helped by the Hiatt Career Center or be the lone kid in the stands at the Judges game. The video created by four Brandeis students pokes fun at more than 100 you-have-to-go-to-Brandeis-to-get-it stereotypes and has been viewed more than […]
BOCA RATON, Fla. – Palm trees line the streets of wealth here but at the edge of a nondescript strip mall is a bookstore bearing Brandeis University’s name. Visitors won’t find typical Boca shopping of $5 Starbucks lattes or Elizabeth Arden pocketbooks. Instead, hidden in this Jewish retirement capital, John Grishams, Clinton biographies and Shakespeare […]
Wednesday, Jan. 18: College students everywhere experienced a collective panic attack. Hundreds of websites, including Wikipedia, Reddit, WordPress and BoingBoing, “blacked out” in protest of the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, and discontinued service for 24 hours in illustration of the censorship the site owners believe will come should SOPA pass both houses […]
BOCA RATON, Fla. – Overlooking the fairway greens and still water ponds that make up senior citizen paradise at Boca Greens Country Club here, at 86 years old Rosalind Schacknow remembers vividly the day when the Brandeis library received the millionth book in her time as president of the National Committee’s Boca Raton chapter. “When […]
Federal research and development efforts are failing to make the most of basic and applied research occurring in universities in communities across the country, according to a recent report from the Center for American Progress. It elaborated, saying that the current relationship between federal, academic and private enterprise was detrimental to economic development. Professor Eve […]
