Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
When Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe put forth his preliminary proposals for improving the Academy at Brandeis, an immediate furor erupted from all quarters. The need for reasoned discussion and discourse in such planning decisions is a must. But the alarmist talk and cries that the sky is falling did more to make faculty members look like children than to move the process forward.
We finally have the data to prove what we Brandeisians have known all along: this place kind of sucks. Brandeis was ranked by the Princeton Review to have the fourth unhappiest students in the U.S. And I bet our administrators are asking themselves, Where did we go wrong? In my opinion, the problem is with the many, many annoyances we have to put up with each day.
Why would hundreds of college students choose to spend a rare warm and sunny March weekend cooped up indoors? While their peers trekked into Boston or simply frolicked in the sunshine, 26 Brandeis Ballroom Dance Team members were executing the best New Yorkers and dancing the best Cha-Chas at the 14th Annual Harvard Invitational held March 5th and 6th.
The best aspect of writing a column for a campus newspaper is that you know who is going to read it. My good friends will sit down and read an article with my picture near it. Professors involved in the journalism program will likely read the campus publications. My parents and close relatives will probably find themselves perusing The Hoots website to see what it is that I have to say. And of course the few people on campus who have an interest in sports may happen upon my column, bringing my total readership to nearly 25. It is those few people with an interest in sports that I am attempting to reach with the following column I feel that if they take my advice they will be doing themselves a large favor.
She woke with a start. Her body felt heavy, weighing down on the mattress. She could hear someone shuffling around her, but she imagined it would take too much effort to open her eyes. Then, the person stopped moving.
Last weekend, Eve Enslers The Vagina Monologues was performed in Spingolds Mainstage Theatre to cap this years Brandeis Universiy VaginaFest. This is the fourth consecutive year that The Vagina Monologues has been performed at Brandeis, and judging from the enthusiastic reception it received from the audience, this is far from the last.
Okay kids, brace yourselves. Its time for the 2005 Brandeis Housing Lottery. Key the dramatic music and a slightly elevated heart rate. If youve done this before, you know that the process can be just a bit stressful. Take a walk around campus and theres a good chance youll find students clawing at their mailboxes with the most anticipation since college application season.
In the last fifteen years, the Internet has made all but defunct the old 26 volume, several hundred dollar encyclopedia set. One popular site that I have been using and that has emerged within the past few years is known as Wikipedia.
The People Power protest in Lebanon over the past two weeks has been led by jubilant teens and twenty-somethings who sense that change is in the air.
