Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
In the early 1900s, company towns were commonplace in the United States. These were places where a parent company, usually a mining facility or factory, owned all of the land in a town such as housing and the town market. Employers were then able to pay their workers in credit, which they could use at […]
Every community is built upon a set of rules. Brandeis is no different. As members of the community who follow these rules, we are granted certain privileges. In fact, all of our rules and privileges are listed for us in a book aptly named “Rights and Responsibilities.” Every year, we get an updated version of […]
Reflecting on this past weekend, my thoughts inevitably turned to the annual Break the Fast on the Great Lawn. The event is held to allow all students who have fasted for Yom Kippur to participate in a community celebration of its completion, with friends of all religions, regardless of whether or not one actually fasted. […]
On Sept. 21, Manhattan witnessed one of the largest marches in its history. It address climate change and the way in which global leaders have, for the most part, failed to address it. The streets quickly filled with a sea of people ranging across all social strata, demanding a more robust and efficient plan to […]
The common thing between Antarctica and the Brandeis University Health Center is that most of the first-year class have not been to either. I do not have many issues with the Health Center, where I’ve been twice. Once was when they strong-armed me into handing in a Tuberculosis form in order to add and drop […]
Could you give me the time? It is a simple question, having been asked among strangers on buses and trains since the invention of the wristwatch (and, of course, the bus and the train). In a bygone era, it could have been the beginning of a great conversation, an icebreaker used to talk to the […]
Students at Brandeis often try to get their voices heard in many different ways. Be it through art around campus, protests or Facebook events, one of the most intrinsic characteristics of students here is to try and enact change. And it usually happens, more or less. Yet the students need to realize that they aren’t […]
One of the great joys of living in this modern age is simply how many different avenues there are to access music, movies or television. Netflix and Hulu provide mainstream content to audiences for a very fair rate, be it through an actual paid subscription or being forced to sit through the same 30-second ads […]
Recently, I attended a Black Keys concert at the TD Garden in Boston. This concert reminded me of two things: one, how much I love the Black Keys, and two, the significance of humanity. It is easy to go through our daily lives, living from moment to moment and forgetting to perceive the world around […]
Dear Sodexo General Manager Shawn Monaghan and Sodexo Management, We, the Brandeis Labor Coalition (BLC), are a group of Brandeis students concerned with the treatment of Sodexo workers on the Brandeis campus. It has come to our attention that the managerial staff actively disrespects workers through public and private intimidation, coercion to do tasks not […]
