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Imagine a national magazine that is geared towards college students, one that doesn’t center on celebrity gossip and instead provides advice on dorm life and even has a section devoted just to Brandeis. Take a look at Her Campus, an online magazine written by college students for college students, and you’ll find just that. Her […]
If you attend college, chances are you’ve heard about the “freshman 15.” Though some say it’s just a myth, for many college students the freshman 15 is a very real problem. What else could we expect? With unlimited access to junk food at anytime of the day, it’s no wonder that some college students are […]
As she slept in her hotel room on the last night of her study abroad orientation in Valparaiso and Vina del Mar, Chile on Feb. 28, Quinn Lockwood ’11 felt the shocks of one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded. “We certainly felt the shaking. [It was] very scary, and the hotel sustained some damage, […]
Proposed Amendment 1: Student Union Government restructuring • Part one would replace the legislative powers of the Union Senate into an Assembly and Club Support Board. • Under the committee’s proposal, the Vice President would be internally elected by the Assembly—merging the position with executiv senator. • The Union Judiciary would become […]
On April 11, the Student Union will host a half-marathon across the Brandeis campus. The event is being organized by Union Vice President Amanda Hecker ’10 and Phi Kappa Psi President Justin Meltzer ’11. The Facebook event created to advertise the event will say the race is being “cosponsored” by both the Union and the […]
Last semester, Adrienne Karlovsky ’12 ran out of points. Over the semester, she would stock up on various snacks while still paying for meals with points; as Karlovsky explains it, “I was trying to double up.” By the end of the semester, her combo meal plan point allowance of 525 was gone. On Feb. 21, […]
There are many things on which I would defer to Jerry Seinfeld. Comedy and how to make millions, for example, are things on which Seinfeld has an authority. Marriage advice, however, is not one of them. Unfortunately, NBC disagrees and this week premiered “The Marriage Ref,” a show in which a star-studded celebrity panel (which […]
The reverberations of last week’s 8.8 earth quake in Chile are being felt at Brandeis. The earthquake, one of the largest to ever hit the South American country, hit in the early morning hours and killed close to three hundred people. Brandeis currently has one student studying abroad in Chile. While officials in the Study […]
The Last Supper A group of 23 people sat and dined at a long, winding table. The group was mixed in age, race and personality, but they all shared one thing in common—their strong faith. As this group drank wine and broke bread together, they reveled in the past six days they’d all shared. Near […]
This coming May will mark the 40th anniversary of the nationwide student protest against the Vietnam War, a protest in which Brandeis was declared the National Student Strike Information Center. Brandeis students began receiving call after call as colleges from as far as Texas phoned in to announce that they, too, were going to strike […]
