Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
If you ask a group of Brandeis students to tell you how much electricity their residence halls consume each day, you’ll probably get a lot of blank stares and, if you’re lucky, a few ballpark guesses. But if you ask students at Harvard, or at Yale, or even at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, […]
Grayce Selig ’11 will be traveling to Capital University in Columbus, Ohio to compete in the mile-run event at the 2011 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III championships. Selig is currently ranked fifth in the nation in the mile run. Earlier this season, she set a Brandeis-record of 4:54.82, her best time of the […]
This week’s rankings are broken up by spring training leagues. Since all teams have played between 10-14 games it makes sense to pay some attention and see what teams are doing. The records are valid as of 10 p.m. March 9. Grapefruit League (Florida) 1. Washington Nationals (7-3): Surprisingly, to me at least, the Nationals […]
People in the West have the tendency to project their own values onto individuals that are completely unlike themselves. They are inclined to assume that everyone in the world wants ulimately the same things that they want, despite differences in culture, history, religion and other characteristics. A recent example of this phenomenon is the American […]
The American Jewish community has historically recognized the need for vigorous internal debate. But recently, the demand to support Israel has outweighed our commitment to listen to one another. This was made clear when Brandeis Hillel voted on Monday to exclude Jewish Voice for Peace (J.V.P.) from their organization. Following guidelines recently issued by national […]
Remember when you were young, and you told jokes to your friends to make them laugh? “Why did the chicken cross the road?” was never really all that funny. So you cleverly thought up variations to the chicken joke … —Why did the chicken cross the playground? To get to the other slide. —Why did […]
Faculty members voted Thursday to change the university’s pass/fail system to allow students to count a class in which they received a “P” for a graduation requirement. Students could begin taking courses pass/fail for a requirement this fall if the proposal brought by the University Curriculum Committee (UCC) is passed on a second reading at […]
While visiting my friend during midterm recess at Hampshire College she suggested we attend the Stand Up for Women’s Health Rally on Feb. 26 in Manhattan’s Foley Square. Her school, Hampshire College, sponsored two buses of students to go to New York to partake in the rally. The rally was aimed at raising awareness and […]
Recently, I’ve been talking with people a lot about what I like to call the “Junior Slump.” The idea behind the Junior Slump is that girls who are single during their junior year encounter significantly more difficulty in finding a partner or partners than girls in other years do. There are a number of reasons […]
It’s 1 o’clock a.m. on a Thursday Morning. I’m sitting in my library chair, trying to absorb the hundred pages of reading due the next day, study questions in hand. If I can get to bed before five, I have a shot at five hours of sleep and a decent next day. If not, I’m […]
