Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
The first time I heard it I was at a concert, but I didn’t actually hear the alarm. The music was playing too loudly to hear it, but all of a sudden the music stopped and everyone started running in a million directions. I never made it to a bomb shelter. I never made it […]
It’s that time of year again: Eleven players on each team hit the field running, adrenaline, anticipation and sweat coursing through their veins. Here in Judges territory, Brandeisians know this sport as soccer. The 17th-ranked Brandeis men’s soccer team kicked off the 2014-2015 season with a decisive 5-0 win over Hobart College. Tournament MVP, Brandeis’ […]
The women’s soccer team celebrated two victories the last weekend in August. The first was a win against the Clark University Cougars. Not only was this a welcome bolster to team spirit after a 0-1 loss to MIT last week, but this win also marked Coach Denise Dallamora’s 300th win in her career as a […]
“The Voyager,” Jenny Lewis’s third album, has a strong, beachy, Californian sound. The generally relaxed, light sound of the album starkly contrasts with the themes of the songs, which mainly touch on serious topics such as growing older, dealing with heartbreak and mid-life crises. Lewis does an interesting job of uniting an airy sound with […]
I assume that I am like most people: I want to get involved in my college community, even at the expense of nightly commitments. I want to spend an incredible amount of time assisting my club in perfecting their craft, whether it be writing for a newspaper, debating a timely issue or simply having a […]
Last August, Brandeis alum Meron Langsner ’04 had his play, “Over Here,” performed at the New York City International Fringe Festival. This festival is the largest performing arts festival in all of North America, where over 200 companies from all over the world perform. A graduate of the playwriting program, Langsner received his MFA in […]
Possibly the most highly anticipated movie this summer was the next film in the Marvel series, “Guardians of the Galaxy.” Marvel has created 10 films since its first, “Iron Man,” which was released in May 2008. While I watched this film, I was pleasantly surprised that a superhero movie could be equal parts action, comedy […]
When entering college, it is easy to feel overwhelmed. From the prospect of living alone and bearing the responsibilities that come with it, such as doing your own laundry, to the task of picking the right classes and all the activities that go in between them, it is hard to find composure. Yet once these […]
While fears of the Brandeis academic workload often haunt first-year students long before they ever arrive on campus, it is the “freshman 15” that wakes them up in the middle of the night. As Steven Hoffman ’18 put it, “I am worried about the freshman 15, but only because it is so easy to gain […]
By now, all of you first-years will have settled into your first-year dorms, finished Orientation, had (almost) a full week’s worth of classes and hopefully found a good group of friends. You all have experienced eating at Sherman, and you have spent more time trying to figure out how to get to your 9 a.m. […]
