Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Every Wednesday afternoon at Snowden International School, in a school library no larger than an MBTA train car, I sit and wait for students to come and ask me to help them with their writing. Snowden lies where the posh shops of Newbury St. meet Dartmouth St.’s as cars race down from the John Hancock […]
When I ask my friends what their majors are, their responses usually include at least two different departments, normally with a couple of minors thrown in between. It seems everyone is at least a double major, or a major with multiple minors, or something to the effect of over-achievement. A sign on East Pomerantz 5’s […]
Sam Vaghar, ’08, probably never envisioned that after reading The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs in 2005 he would be attending a school that was in second place among 100 other colleges nationwide in a competition to end the poverty which Sachs addresses. In his book, Sachs, an economist at Columbia University, calls for […]
Most people don’t visit the place where we were standing. Certainly not Birthright. Most people would be too scared to even set foot in the area at all, but there was our group of 41 Americans, from various college campuses, standing just outside the Gaza border. Our guide was showing us the place where rockets are launched from, and under our feet were scattered remnants of houses that the Israeli army destroyed when it built a tall fence to separate Gaza from Israeli territory…
So, we all know when there’s an emergency who to call- BEMCo. I’m sure a lot of us even have their number stored in our cell phones. We’ve seen them driving around campus in the BEMCo vehicles and toting medical bags in their BEMCo gear, but who are the students behind the BEMCo program? Why […]
Many prominent figures throughout Boston, New York and other parts of the country lent their time and energy towards organizing, publicizing, and eventually creating the Brandeis we know today. It remains an amazing example of successful organization and working with a diverse group of people. One of the more famous among them was Albert Einstein, […]
Do the letters CORI mean anything to you? You may already have some idea of what Brandeis’ policies on hiring university workers are based upon the workers you see around you every day, in the dining halls and in your dorm. Brandeis hires its workers from the local Waltham community, and has demonstrated a commitment […]
You’ve got a guy’s behind planted squarely on your face, his arms wrapped around your feet, and he has complete control over whether or not you break a bone in the next two seconds. What do you do? Come to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu club and you’ll find out how you can reverse the situation, or, […]
Your muscles tense the second your line starts to reel itself out. Your rod bends sharply, threatening to break if action is not taken immediately. A giant shimmer in the water several feet under confirms that you have a monster on the other end of your line. How you react within the ensuing moments determines whether your future involves a giant finned sea creature flopping around in your boat or a broken tool. Do you have a net in the boat? What are you going to do once you have this beast in your grips? Lunch? Catch and release?
