Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Bombay Bicycle Club, a London-based band, is known for their innovative indie music. Having produced three critically acclaimed albums in three years, their fourth album, which took three years to produce, had to meet high expectations. Although most indie critics like to pin the changing style of Bombay Bicycle Club’s sound to their status as […]
Do you remember applying to college? There was so much involved: the tests, the essays, the actual filling out of applications. Everyone has their own story of how they got to college. It is easy to think back on the whole thing, but people sometimes forget how stressful it was, especially because of everything that […]
It’s a fairly common occurrence most mornings here at Brandeis; in the midst of a thought-provoking, major-changing discussion on how the word “inspired” used to mean to have something blown into you in Chaucer’s time and it traces to the term “respiratory,” such as the lungs, when you notice something. While you are trying your […]
The women’s basketball team won a close game on Friday in Cleveland against Case Western Reserve University. The final score was 63-58. The game featured eight ties and 11 lead changes. The Spartans began with an early 9-2 lead, but the Judges responded with a 9-0 run that included three jump shots by guard Kasey […]
Sexual assault on college campuses was a common news topic in 2013. As we enter the second month of 2014, the issue is gaining more movement and traction in the minds of students, college administrators and public officials. The United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights received 30 complaints alleging failures in how […]
When I came to Brandeis in the fall of 2012, there were a few things I was truly excited for: independence, new friends and seasons. Growing up in a fairly small suburb maybe 15 miles southwest of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, seasons were not something I had ever really experienced. I had been through hot weather, […]
This week, the Eli J. Segal Citizen Leadership Program announced the 2014 recipients of the Segal Fellowship, four undergraduates and two Masters in Public Policy (MPP) students. These students will be placed in a summer internship at an organization concerned with social justice and citizen leadership, and will also receive a $3,500 to $5,000 stipend […]
Just a few minutes after 9 p.m., Chums was packed for the Social Justice and Diversity Committee’s Poetry Slam. Crowd Control, one of Brandeis’ improv groups, had already begun their act, though it was difficult to hear them. Chums was so crowded that I could barely shove my way into the coffee house. However, what […]
On Monday, Feb. 3, Tatjana Meschede, senior lecturer at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, contributed her knowledge and experience of homelessness in the conference titled, “A Focus on Homelessness in Local Communities” for ’DEIS Impact. Members of Habitat for Humanity and Hunger and Homelessness, active clubs under the Waltham Group, held the […]
Before the Brandeis Academic Debate and Speech Society (BADASS) ’DEIS Impact debate began, Alyssa Adler ’16 stood in an aisle in Golding Auditorium, preparing to make her case. ’DEIS Impact is Brandeis’ annual festival of social justice, a concept on which the school was founded. BADASS got in on the action with “Debating For a […]
