Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Without a doubt, “Mass Effect 3” was the biggest video game release of March. Like the rest of the series, it was met with critical acclaim. Unlike the rest of the series, it has become entangled in a controversy caused by some fans’ disappointment with the ending of the story. Online, there is a petition […]
Almost every morning I wake up to the sweet quacking noise of the local ducks in Massell Pond. Usually paddling around or hunting for worms, two feathered friends have decided to set up camp in the pond outside my dorm. Students report that the pair returns back to Massell every year. The birds appear to […]
Unless you have recently been living under a rock, you may have realized that the movie “The Hunger Games” was released this past weekend. Besides filling up the pockets of Hollywood producers—the movie grossed around $155 million its opening weekend and is expected to make another $60 million this weekend—it also served as the latest […]
The Holy Cross-sponsored “The Other America Then and Now” poverty conference in Worcester brought together more than 100 participants, including nearly two dozen Brandeis students and staff last weekend. The conference demonstrated how much has been achieved and remains unfinished in efforts to eradicate unfair income inequality in America. “The Other America,” published in 1962, […]
I am still shocked by the murder of three children and a teacher at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish day school in Toulouse, France, last Monday. The image of a seven-year-old girl fleeing for her life being shot point-blank in the head is haunting. Since then, a French Jewish teenager was beaten in Paris by anti-Semitic […]
“Pink slime.” Yuck. Try saying it: “pink slime.” The syllables feel gross in your mouth. Now picture it: a light pink—the same color as raw ground beef—gel oozing across your plate. “Pink slime” is the newest cause of parents everywhere since ABC had a report this month decrying its use in our fast food and […]
Every year March rolls around and the panic sets in. You see, I was born and raised in North Carolina, a state home to one of the fiercest college rivalries in the country: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill vs. Duke. College basketball has consequently always been important in my family. By the time that […]
Newspapers and other news sources are in a self-reflective business; while we certainly cover the events, politics, etc., we love to cover other newspapers. This proclivity became very obvious during the News of the World scandal this past summer. Although the readers eventually became bored with the story, the newspapers kept writing articles and placing […]
We all know the Rabb steps. They are feared all over campus. And for those of us who are lucky enough to be midyears taking classes at Shiffman at 9 a.m. in the morning Monday through Thursday, this means that we have to tackle them after our mile-long hike. This also means that we see […]
Day by day we hear news reports of the Syrian government slaughtering its own people. The question is: Should the United States do something about it? We have already implemented strict, comprehensive sanctions on the regime there. President Obama has also stated as a matter of policy that dictator Bashar al-Assad must leave. Yet there […]
