Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Congressman Joe Baca, of the 43rd district of California, is once again pushing for warnings on video games. Hopefully he fails yet again. Like in 2009, and again in 2011, Congressman Baca wants all video games not rated EC—everything that isn’t for toddlers—to have a label linking video games to aggressive behavior. Even games like […]
More than anything else, Brandeis is about widening access to education. When Brandeis was founded, that meant opening admission to people of all racial and gender identities. Later on, that mission matured to include the creation of programs like TYP, and Wien and Slifka Scholars. Like graven idols, all barriers to learning should be destroyed. […]
On behalf of the group that cares more about a speaker’s physical assets than what she has to say, I would like to respond to the article that appeared in last week’s edition of The Hoot: “When Free Speech Turns Sexist.” As Vice President of the Brandeis Libertarian-Conservative Union (B.L.C.U.), and the person who planned […]
A common—and often uncomfortable—side effect of a university education, is that it forces us to be critical of beliefs, opinions and values that would otherwise seem unquestionable. To illustrate this point, I ask you—as Professor Tim McCarty (POL) asked me in a political theory class last week—to consider the discourse on marriage equality in this […]
As much as Brandeis students enjoyed having a week off in February, in reality, most of us spent it in front of our computers, refreshing our e-mails in anticipation of the random number that would dictate our lives for the next year—our housing lottery numbers. The weeks leading up to housing selection test our patience […]
Do you like beautiful women? Do you like politics? Do you like free food? If you do, you may have found yourself at a Brandeis Libertarian-Conservative Union (BLCU) speaker event featuring S.E. Cupp last night. From what I’ve gathered from the Facebook event page and a little Internet detective work, Sarah Elizabeth “S.E.” Cupp is […]
Our country’s public education is in a sorry state; this is not some new discovery. For years the media has been reporting on how much better China’s children are at math and science and on how schoolchildren do not know many basic bits of data. The United States’ public schools have been trying to push […]
As I walked toward Usdan for dinner the other night my male friend and I got into a debate. Arguing is an unsurprising activity for me since the adjectives most frequently associated with my personality are “snarky” and “sassy.” I remarked that I thought the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance’s dramatic attempt to catch the eye […]
In the United States of America all citizens are granted the freedom of speech. This is perhaps the most well-known and most sanctified clause of the Bill of Rights. It is a clause meant to protect to the ideas of the citizens and a clause meant to prevent the American government from ruling as a […]
I am currently on the School for International Training (SIT) Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo: Peace and Conflict Studies in the Balkans. I’ve been living in Belgrade for a little more than a month, but last week, had the amazing opportunity to spend a week in Kosovo. So my question to you is, where in the […]
