Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Our country’s public education is in a sorry state; this is not some new discovery. For years the media has been reporting on how much better China’s children are at math and science and on how schoolchildren do not know many basic bits of data. The United States’ public schools have been trying to push […]
Do you like beautiful women? Do you like politics? Do you like free food? If you do, you may have found yourself at a Brandeis Libertarian-Conservative Union (BLCU) speaker event featuring S.E. Cupp last night. From what I’ve gathered from the Facebook event page and a little Internet detective work, Sarah Elizabeth “S.E.” Cupp is […]
Since the beginning of the academic year, Aramark, Brandeis’ food service provider, began phasing out student manager and supervisor positions. After the graduation of current student managers, the positions remain unfilled and were ultimately eliminated. Student and union workers find that they now bear increased pressure. The elimination of the student manager position has “definitely […]
In difficult economic times, successful philanthropic fundraising requires creative thinking and original, attention-grabbing ideas. This is part of the reason why the Brandeis National Committee (BNC) Las Vegas chapter brought Betty Bunch, a former Vegas showgirl entertainer, to speak at their 15th annual book and author luncheon on Sunday. Bunch, who performed in shows and […]
Michael Rosbash, already awarded the Greuber Neuroscience Prize in 2009 for his research on brain and sleep disorders, has been named the first Peter Greuber Endowed Chair in Neuroscience, a new university position on the board of trustees. Rosbash, who runs the Rosbash lab, has made significant headway in the scholarship of circadian rhythms of […]
Friendships between men and women are complicated to say the least, but bring a kid into the equation and you’ll see how complicated things can be. “Friends With Kids,” directed by Jennifer Westfeldt (also the film’s writer and star) is a romantic comedy that reveals in great detail the experience of having a baby. Best […]
In the United States of America all citizens are granted the freedom of speech. This is perhaps the most well-known and most sanctified clause of the Bill of Rights. It is a clause meant to protect to the ideas of the citizens and a clause meant to prevent the American government from ruling as a […]
As I walked toward Usdan for dinner the other night my male friend and I got into a debate. Arguing is an unsurprising activity for me since the adjectives most frequently associated with my personality are “snarky” and “sassy.” I remarked that I thought the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance’s dramatic attempt to catch the eye […]
“Tuesdays With,” a program based on the premise of the novel “Tuesdays With Morrie,” brings a professor from Brandeis into close proximity with students as they tell the tale of their lives and what brought them to Brandeis. “Tuesdays With Morrie” by Brandeis alum Mitch Albom ’79 is a famous non-fiction novel, topping the New […]
Film: ‘Days of Heaven’ There may be no film more beautiful than Terrence Malick’s “Days of Heaven” (1978). In the early 1900s, working-class lovers Bill (Richard Gere) and Abby (Brooke Adams) migrate to the Texas Panhandle, where they begin harvesting wheat for a well-to-do farmer (Sam Shepard). The farmer instantly falls for Abby. When Bill […]
