‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ (2022) is awful and no one should be surprised
Every “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (TCM) movie is terrible. Spanning from the original to the 2022 Netflix release and taking a tiny reprieve for “Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2” (1986), which is arguably watchable, the series has always been awful. I state this to be clear that I came into “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (2022) from a place […]
Adirondack Chair Conversations With the Statue of Louis Brandeis, part 1—a short story
“Look around.” I don’t understand. “Explore your surroundings.” But I live in them. “You do not live in them. You have become them; a sapling who thinks itself an acorn. Your home is vacant.” And it was gone. And that was the first conversation I had with them. I […]
Baseball wins against Trinity
Graduate students Mike Khoury (GRAD) and Luke Hall (GRAD) each homered and Mason Newman (GRAD) pitched six quality innings as the Judges staved off a late charge to defeat Trinity 15-9. With the win, Brandeis is now 2-2. Brandeis scored nine runs in the first three innings. Steven Simon ’23 led the game off […]
Student group holds sit-in in support of dining workers
Students held a sit-in inside Bernstein-Marcus Administration Center on March 11 in support of dining workers on campus. Students were able to meet with the administration to voice their concerns and hear the university’s plans. Lois Stanley, Vice President for Campus Planning and Operations, and Stew Uretsky, Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration, met […]
Indigneous scholars discuss art as a decolonization tool
Two PhD scholars, Zoe Todd (GRAD) and Celeste Pedri-Spade (GRAD), discussed their art in a virtual talk at the university, on Wednesday, March 16. This event—sponsored by the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WMGS)—focused on how the two “manifest and mobilize their obligations within spaces where colonial institutions still work tirelessly to dispossess […]
It’s about time!
On Sunday March 13 most Americans resumed daylight saving time (DST), and moved their clocks ahead by one hour. The U.S. will resume standard time in November, when the clocks get pushed back by an hour. Like nearly 75 percent of Americans, I feel that we should do away with the practice of changing our […]
Fencing competes at regionals, Shealy named athlete of the week
The men’s and women’s fencing teams competed in the NCAA Northeast Regional championships at Vassar College. On the women’s side in the saber’s opening round, Maggie Shealy ’23 went 5-1, which put her in the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, we went 4-2, bringing her to the finals, where she went 3-8. Also in saber, Kayla […]
Univ. alumni in Ukraine call for support from community members
The university’s Alumni Association shared “harrowing stories” from alumni currently living in Ukraine amidst the Russian assault on the country, in a recent article from March 8. Russia has continued its invasion of Ukraine, attacking major cities and urban areas including: Kyiv, Kherson and Melitpol, according to the live updates from The New York Times. […]
American drug epidemics and their responses: perceptions of drug users vary along racial lines
The United States has been struggling with the ever-worsening opioid epidemic since the 1990s when increased opioid prescriptions led to widespread opioid addiction. Driven by greed, private companies fraudulently marketed highly-addictive narcotics as safe for moderate pain — as seen in the case of Purdue Pharma and their drug Oxycontin. Growing up in New Hampshire […]
Disability Student’s Network hosts upcoming webinar
The Disabled Student’s Network is a campus organization that serves to provide a community for disabled students at Brandeis and promote advocacy and activism for representation for the disabled. The founders of the club are students Luca Swinford ’22 and Zoe Pringle ’22, and the club hosts multiple weekly meetings in-person and over Zoom. On […]
Ukraine is the new Afghanistan; Western hypocrisy in support for Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has truly been in progression for quite some time, in which its democracy has been challenged consistently since its independence in 1991. Starting in 2014 during the Euromaidan revolution where Crimea was annexed, Russian involvement in politics in neighboring former Soviet Union countries has continued to pose threats to sovereignty. […]
Panera’s new Thai Chicken Soup and Citrus Asian Crunch Salad
After all the fast food we have been eating recently, we decided to try to focus on reviewing something healthier. Or at least something that pretends to be healthy; and what pretends to be healthy other than Panera? Luckily for us, they recently introduced two new items: the Thai Chicken Soup and the Citrus Asian […]
