Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
The annual on-campus housing headache is upon us once more. The Friday of winter break, like clockwork, the Department of Community Living sends out each student’s personal, randomly chosen lottery name. But each successive year is another reminder of the many, myriad problems with the university’s residence life. Each year numbers get less and less […]
In response to a Justice editorial published Tuesday titled “Recognize Greek life,” we strongly urge the administration to uphold the value of equal opportunity that defines Brandeis University and reject the idea of recognizing fraternities and sororities. The Justice correctly noted that participation in off-campus fraternities at Brandeis has increased dramatically during the past five […]
Each January, Brandeis receives a new handful of midyear students. Unlike the average first-year arrival, however, these students find residence in the Village. Now, before our wonderful, beautiful readers get upset thinking that our staff is merely bitter and resentful that we ourselves live in not-so-clean or new housing, we would like to make it […]
President Obama’s State of the Union included a central portion on higher education, with some choice words for Congress—but also for universities themselves. Colleges across the nation have allowed their tuition and other costs to skyrocket. In recent years a college education has again become more and more the province of the elite, and truly […]
In the strategic plan process, something is clearly amiss. The entire affair has taken far too long. Case in point, in Student Union President Herbie Rosen’s e-mail to students this week, he reviewed the process for those—in his words—“new here, or for those who just plain forgot.” While all indications make clear that the strategic […]
The re-opening of the Linsey Pool this week, after much fanfare, complete with Saturday’s planned pool party, represents a great success not only for Brandeis’ student activists but for intelligent and effective budgetary decision-making as well. The board of trustees announced the donation of the money to renovate the pool last spring, a decision that […]
Another Brandeis student was transported to the hospital last month after getting hit while crossing South Street. Enough is enough. Brandeis and Waltham ought to implement new procedures to ensure student and driver safety. Last week, Police Chief Ed Callahan warned students via e-mail to use the designated crosswalk or pedestrian bridge when crossing South […]
We mourn the loss of Virginia Tech police officer Deriek W. Crouse, who died in a campus shooting on Thursday. Crouse joined the university police force in 2007 following the deadliest school shooting in our nation’s history. And now violence has claimed his life. Police officers place themselves in the line of duty to protect […]
It’s time for President Fred Lawrence to meet Waltham’s mayor. In an interview this week with The Hoot, Mayor Jeannette A. McCarthy, who was just elected to a third term, said that, although she attended Lawrence’s inauguration last spring, she has not yet met with Lawrence in an official capacity. That’s a pretty big problem. […]
Next week the board of trustees will gather at Brandeis to discuss the strategic vision of Brandeis but most integral community members—the vast majority of students—often don’t get to know trustees. It is a sad thing and it represents a larger problem. How many trustees do students know? Do most even know Chairman Mal Sherman? […]
