Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
The Student Union senate has lost the respect of the Brandeis campus. It isn’t just 18 percent voter turnout in elections or uncontested races. It isn’t Senate Money Resolutions (SMR) requesting pizza for senate meetings or more votes for abstain and Mickey Mouse than real people. And it isn’t the invisibility of the senate’s work […]
This past summer, all I could think about was college—how incredible it was going to be, how much fun I was going to have and the amazing friends I would make. I spent my free time worrying about my classes and dreading my finals, dreaming of people I did not know and places I had […]
Throughout all of high school, each and every activity—whether academic, athletic or extracurricular—was done with the future in mind. Upon volunteering or signing up for anything I would always ask myself: “Will this help me get into college?” Everything I’d do was explicitly done in an attempt to make me more appealing to college admission […]
Starting to think about summer opportunities—and already lost? Dear Leah and Morgan, I’ve started thinking about getting a summer job, and I’m not sure where to turn. I have to do an internship for one of my minors, and my adviser suggested I do it over the summer. My parents want me to find a […]
As a midyear you have a couple options: Go abroad; stay home and try not to strangle your sibling; do an internship somewhere; or go to community college. For me it was a no-brainer. All my friends fled from my hometown like it was the plague and so I found myself doing the same. Except […]
Last week this editorial board complained about Einstein Bros. Bagels closing early, cowardly using the excuse of the Jewish holidays. We made the point that Jews eat too, even on holidays. Similarly, the food options in Sherman Dining Hall on Jewish holidays are meager. On the non-kosher side, which should not logically be affected by […]
Hello, my name is Morgan Gross and I can’t dance. Now, before you start with the “everyone can dance,” “you just need to try it,” “don’t be so hard on yourself” stuff, let me assure you, this isn’t some exercise in self-deprecation or fishing for compliments. I’m not secretly a ballerina, who is just trying […]
What a person wants to do with their own body is their business. Therefore, while I may not entirely understand gender reassignment surgeries, I can respect the transgendered people undergoing them and wish them well. Tommy, a resident of California, is currently taking the first steps to become Tammy. Good for him! He is a […]
The “Shalit Deal” with Hamas is not something the average Brandeis student has managed to avoid. According to the deal, Gilad Shalit was released in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners from the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Israel, some of whom returned to their homes while some were deported. The popular media in Israel continuously […]
The Brandeis women’s soccer team fell to 5-8-1 Sunday after losing to Washington University 3-0. Two days earlier, Brandeis tied the University of Chicago 1-1 in a match that was delayed for an hour and 25 minutes due to lightning. The Judges earned their first point of the season in the conference standings with their […]
