Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
The world is at a turning point, celebrating its greatest accomplishments while facing its greatest peril. As the world’s factories, cars and power plants continue emitting hazardous greenhouse gases at alarming rates, the earth is getting warmer. The scientific consensus is the effects of global warming will continue to worsen unless we take immediate action. […]
There was free HIV testing at the International Cultural Center Monday, did you know that? The amount of advertising was negligible at best. On a college campus, testing should not only be well advertised, but should also encompass all sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), not just HIV. Though the Brandeis Health Center does provide STD/STI testing […]
If you haven’t noticed, the partisanship in Washington is intractable and endless. Republicans are declaring Democrats socialists while Democrats are calling their “friends on the other side of the aisle” obstructionists, and there seems to be little–if any–cooperation or camaraderie between the two sides. Perhaps one way to decrease the divisiveness of our political system […]
Imagine that you’re a Democratic member of Congress who voted for the recent health care legislation backed by President Barack Obama. You’re at home in your district telling your constituents about all your hard work. How will you respond when they bring up the new health care law? Thank you so much for universal health […]
It’s sometimes easy to forget just how large Aramark is. Headquartered in Philadelphia, this massive organization of more than 250,000 full-time employees provides food and facilities to businesses, prisons, conventions, sporting events, and of course, colleges and universities. Though we often think of Aramark as simply a Brandeisian problem, ours is just one of the […]
Many of us are frustrated with Washington these days. We speak of broken promises and weak leadership, powerful lobbyists who control policy agendas and congressmen who run perpetual reelection campaigns. I have never worked in Washington, and I certainly cannot pinpoint the exact reason why voters have lost confidence in their representatives. But during the […]
This week, Western leaders’ favorite dictators continued their ongoing demonstration of how a bunch of all-around great guys can run a country where none of that annoying individual-rights stuff gets in their way. Ever so gently, and almost as quietly, British and American officials had prodded their Chinese counterparts to say something about the whereabouts […]
Housing selection was a key part of this past week for many students at Brandeis. Though I have only been through it once, I can report it is highly flawed. The system of lottery numbers, though equal, is in no way fair. Why is it equal? Because of all the reasons used to call it […]
The ever-present question, for men and women alike, is what to do with the hair down there. I’d love to be able to say that there’s a right answer, but the truth is, there isn’t. It’s mostly about what your personal preferences are, and perhaps your partner’s preferences. During a conversation with some guy friends […]
A few months ago the entire teaching staff and administration of Central Falls High School was fired for incompetence. The move made national headlines with people debating the fairness and future effectiveness of the option, despite the fact that the city’s high school graduation rate is less than 50 percent. Central Falls is a very […]
