Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
As most people probably remember, a few weeks ago, Brandeis Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) created a Facebook event called “Brandeis Israel Apartheid Week (IAW).” The event, simply the Brandeis extension of one that occurs all over college campuses nationwide, went viral in less than a day. Pro-Israel Brandeis students flooded the page with […]
I missed my usual Latin Mass in Newton last Sunday morning, so I had decided to go to Father Cuenin’s service at 7:30 that night. instead. As I walked to the Bethlehem Chapel to go to Mass, I passed by the Protestant and Jewish chapels. Out of the three chapels, only one was dark on […]
Around the beginning of the semester, the most wonderful thing was going on in the SCC. A Girl Scout troop had set up a table and was selling cookies—Girl Scout Cookies. Since I did not have any cash on me, I couldn’t buy any cookies. But it wasn’t the possibility of a box of decadent […]
Brandeis has become a campus more than fairly involved in social justice. With that in mind, I thought about how exactly social justice is conveyed throughout campus. Just the other day, someone knocked on my door with a message of one of many groups on campus. This particular student was going door to door informing […]
Every day brings new obstacles, some days more than others. At Brandeis, we expect our course load to be difficult, and there is a mentality to fill every waking hour with a different activity. Students are no strangers to complaining about all the stress or work they have to deal with. But perhaps we should […]
Housing is over, and once again it has caused more pain than pleasure and split up more friendships than it has created. There is not enough campus housing to fit everyone in the first place, but the people who will be living on campus have to deal with the ridiculous prices and the limited options. […]
I like to watch “The Daily Show.” As it name suggests, I tend to watch it every day, usually while eating a bowl of cereal the morning after a new episode airs. This past Friday, after finishing my classes and getting something to eat, I sat down to watch the latest episode. Now I usually […]
It is five minutes until class starts, and you are running toward the Rabb Steps to make it on time. As you try to cross the road to get to the Rabb Steps, a car suddenly speeds through. You are surprised that the driver drove so fast and feel lucky that you are safe and […]
A few weeks ago, Brandeis Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) hosted keynote speaker Max Blumenthal, a widely known journalist who recently wrote a book about the state of affairs in Israel. While he spoke about apartheid in Israel, a stone’s throw across the Mediterranean there were different talks of “separateness” occurring. In Ukraine, threats […]
On Wednesday, March 12, the fire alarm went off in Lown. At least that’s what I have been told, because a bell clanging like it’s announcing high school passing period and some flashing lights does not a fire alarm make. “Do you think it’s the carbon monoxide detector?” a classmate asked me as we walked, […]
