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Don’t keep students in the dark

(1 hour ago)

On Oct. 15, the Brandeis administration held an undergraduate town hall to discuss their new career initiatives. Many students used the event as an opportunity to voice other concerns, including campus accessibility, possible department closures and budget constraints. While these topics warrant their own discussions, this editorial board is compelled to bring up a common denominator between them: uncertainty. 

https://www.thejustice.org/article/2026/10/dont-keep-students-in-the-dark

STEM vs. humanities: What’s the difference?

(09/29/26 10:00am)

Waking up at 10 a.m. for my 11:15 a.m. German class every morning with my roommate long gone has already become an established norm of my collegiate life. As a humanities student, walking up and down the Rabb steps for some daily cardio and diving into 50 pages of archaic English that make me doubt my language skills is how my days go by. One day, while doing the HWL-1 Campus Scavenger Hunt, I was trying to find the new location of the International Students and Scholars Office in the Gerstenzang Science Library and entered the wrong building under Google Maps’ guidance. I thought I entered the backrooms for a second — the blurry orange afternoon sunlight enveloped the hallways with a foreign sense of nostalgia. Restricted access signs, eye wash stations and unknown apparatuses faded this comforting sense of coziness. 

https://www.thejustice.org/article/2026/09/stem-vs-humanities-whats-the-difference

The power and magic of horror

(09/29/26 10:00am)

Horror is perhaps one of the most provocative genres of entertainment today. The genre focuses on magnifying and studying the taboo, on pushing the limits of human will and sanity and, above all else, eliciting a visceral reaction from its audience. While the nuance of human emotion leaves room for a whole range of feelings to be contained in the “horror,” genre the fact is that the end of every horror movie — a good one, at least — leaves the audience feeling disturbed or afraid, or at least somewhat unsettled. The appeal of the “scary movie” is widespread and obvious: It entertains and critiques in equal measure, providing provocative imagery and material for productive discussions in one fell swoop. This isn’t to say that other categories of film entertainment can’t do the same, but horror is undoubtedly the most effective out of all of them. From bloody slashers (“Saw,” “Scream,” “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”) to that of the unsettling and mystifying (“Annihilation,” “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me,” “Midsommar”), horror can wear many different clothes and yet fundamentally accomplish the same goal. Yes, horror frightens and disturbs, but it can also serve as a magnifying glass aimed at studying the underbelly of what it means to be human, examining the lengths one will reach to survive In this desire to be the winner, to be one’s own salvation, lies the undoubtedly Romantic ideal of humanity being its own destroyer and savior. Horror combines two seemingly opposed ideas and uses them against the audience — first, the eternal fight between good and evil — and second, the idea that in order to triumph over evil, that which is framed as “good” must itself become a little monstrous in the process. The heightened emotion, contradictory themes and allegorical possibilities that horror presents can be traced through the literature from centuries past from Stoker’s “Dracula” and Shelley’s “Frankenstein” all the way to Kubrick’s “The Shining” and Aster’s “Hereditary.” 

https://www.thejustice.org/article/2026/09/the-power-and-magic-of-horror