Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
A group of 14 students has begun dormstorming to educate their peers about the university’s budget cuts in an effort to fill what they say is a void in communication between the university’s administration and students. “We feel really out of the loop, and we’re worried about a repeat of last year,” Mariel Gruszko ’10 […]
Though the installation of solar panels on the roof of the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center was completed in January, the panels have yet to be used pending a safety inspection. The amount of energy lost in the meantime would be enough to power a typical household for three years. The panels cannot be turned […]
The Student Union Treasurer and the Finance Board (F-Board) have created a new online structure to coordinate funding requests for university clubs and societies. The Student Union Management System (SUMS) is a new Web organization to simplify the “funding marathon” timeline. Before the online system, club leaders had to submit a request for funds by […]
B’Deis Records, a Brandeis independent record company, hosted a benefit concert for Haiti this Friday which coincided with a special charity Shabbat dinner. Then, on Saturday, an off-campus Greek mixer between the Zeta Beta Tou (ZBT) and Phi Psi fraternities also raised money for the cause. Together, the three events collected more than $3,300. “I […]
The Justice Brandeis Semester (JBS) Committee and JBS program manager Alyssa Grinberg have approved one program for the fall semester. The environmental field semester will allow students to gain hands-on experience in stewardship of land and natural resources as well as gain in-depth knowledge into how law, ecology and history interact in the real world. […]
The annual SunDeis Film Festival will take place in late April and early May and will be sponsored by the Film Studies Department, reflecting Student Activities’ inability to organize the program this year. Student Activities, usually one of the main organizers of the event, but due to a lack of funding they will not sponsor […]
The Brandeis Academic Debate and Speech Society (BADASS) and its newly elected executive board is off to a successful semester following a sixth place individual win at New York University (NYU) and two members’ attendance at the Worlds Council competition. Over the holiday break, Evan Green-Lowe ’10 and Jackie Saffir ’10 travelled to Istanbul to […]
Last week this editorial board could find no better way to express our dissatisfaction with the Student Union than to depict it in an editorial cartoon as a chicken with its head cut off. But if the Union was bumbling and disoriented last week, this week it is completely without a clue. Two weeks ago […]
The housing gods have answered our prayers: Charles River, a.k.a. Grad, is finally getting a makeover. Built in 1972 the Grad apartments, known to some students as Stalin-Grad for it’s resemblance to Communist block housing, have long been the subject of much student lamentations. The buildings are not only unpleasant to look at, they are […]
Sex works differently in college than it does in other places. At a place like Brandeis, more likely than not, once you get into a group of friends you either find someone you like and stick with them, or you end up sleeping with more than one person in your circle. Like anywhere, it’s easier […]
