What's the deal with TRON?
(10/30/18 10:00am)
“Hey, I’ll see you around,” Robert Singer ’19 said on his way out of his politics class. “I gotta go buy a banana so I don’t die.”
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(10/30/18 10:00am)
PURE SPORT: In 1978, former TRON member, Mike Banks ’29 told the Boston Globe that Ultimate Frisbee is the “purest sport.”
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(10/30/18 10:00am)
SPEAKING UP: The panelists discussed the lack of support systems available to members of the LGBTQIA community who experience domestic abuse.
Crazy Stupid Trade
(10/23/18 10:00am)
What did it mean for Germany when Angela Merkel’s sister party, the Christian Social Union, got clobbered in last month’s Bavarian parliamentary election? Are trade wars good for Americans? And how can the first chapter of an economics textbook help Trump understand global trade?
Planting Happiness
(10/23/18 10:00am)
If you were wondering what an oasis of greenery was doing in the middle of the Shapiro Campus Center on Oct. 17 and 18, or why people were leaving with tiny plants, wonder no longer. It was just Randy Skolnick, Brandeis’s friendly neighborhood plantsman.
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(10/23/18 10:00am)
COUPLE GOALS: Now that his wife June is retired and he only works six months a year, Randy often brings June along with him to sell plants across the northeast.
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(10/23/18 10:00am)
A HAPPY PLACE: Randy Skolnick is at home among plants. He said, “I just love plants. I like ’em better than people. I give ’em what they need and they don’t talk back.”
A maxim for people with a sweet tooth
(10/16/18 10:00am)
When Max LeBlanc ’22 was a freshman in high school, he began working in a local ice cream store. In his hometown, the tourism-driven community of Kennebunk, Maine, LeBlanc was just looking to earn some extra money for college. As a 14-year-old, he had no idea that in less than four years, he would be the founder of his own dessert shop.
It’s time to vote!
(10/16/18 10:00am)
At the entrance of the Shapiro Campus Center atrium last Thursday, two long, gray tables were stretched out, filled with candy, snacks and boxes of white envelopes. At the end of the tables, a blue, red, and white-checkered sign read, “Register to Vote!”
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(10/16/18 10:00am)
GET ENFRANCHISED: “I think it’s always important to vote, regardless of what the political climate is,” said Lauren Komer ’21.
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(10/16/18 10:00am)
CIVIC DUTY: Over 60 students came to the voter-registration drive to claim their absentee ballots.
Making a lasting impact
(10/09/18 10:00am)
While waiting for physical therapy, a group of student athletes noticed Marci McPhee’s sweatshirt and asked what sport she coached. “Uh...” McPhee responded. “It’s a social justice thing — ’DEIS Impact.”
Let’s talk about race
(10/09/18 10:00am)
With the words “I remember…” magnified on an otherwise blank slide behind her, Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum asked the audience of faculty members before her to take a moment to think about their earliest race-related moment. When she asked at what age these memories occurred, many faculty members shouted out, “five.” She then asked them to raise their hands if they had any recollection of having a conversation about these moments with an adult. Only a few hands went up.
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(10/09/18 10:00am)
RACE BARRIER: Dr. Tatum asks the question: How do we get students from various backrounds to talk about race relations?
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(10/09/18 10:00am)
HAPPY MEMORIES: Marci McPhee’s father, Bunnie E. Gregory attended Middlesex College of Medicine and Surgery. McPhee recalls her father enjoying returning to campus to visit her and see the old buildings.
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(10/09/18 4:50pm)
HER LEGACY: Marci McPhee (left) and Lyn Gregory wear ’DEIS Impact shirts celebrating the festival of social justice McPhee championed at Brandeis.
Not So Trivial
(10/02/18 10:00am)
The story of trivia begins in the Ancient World. Trivia, meaning “unimportant matters,” derived as a back-formation of trivialis, which meant “found everywhere, commonplace” or “vulgar.” An online column from Merriam-Webster, shedding light on the etymology of trivia, noted that the term — and the titular game — “sometimes gets a bad rap” because of a related word, trivial, meaning “of little worth or importance.” When used in a singular construction, it means “a quizzing game involving obscure facts.” The lay meaning of the trivia, according to Merriam-Webster, is “obscure facts and details that aren’t applicable to one’s day-to-day life.”
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(10/02/18 10:00am)
NOTHING BUT THE FACTS: Faiyaz Rahman ’20 says that being smart is a big advantage on Trivia Night, but ultimately, "anyone can win."
The Underground Barista
(09/25/18 10:00am)
When Ben LoCascio ’20 is daydreaming in class, he’s not fantasizing about backpacking across Europe or sipping cocktails on a tropical island. Instead, he’s thinking about coffee. LoCascio began drinking coffee sometime in the eighth grade and hasn’t looked back since. “My dad is from Italy and would always make espresso drinks,” LoCascio mused. “I think it was his rebellion against American drip coffee.” When he was given a $3,000 professional-grade espresso machine by his uncle before attending Brandeis, LoCascio decided to channel his love of coffee into a one-man movable Café stand, affectionately dubbed “Café Undergrounds.” Since then, the Café has taken off, bringing in hundreds of dollars in sales each weekend. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Fridays, LoCascio can be found selling lattes and Nutella paninis from a small cart parked in Upper Usdan. He’s keenly aware of his competition on campus: between Dunkin Donuts, Starbucks and Einstein's, students have wondered where Café Underground fits in. LoCascio says he isn’t sweating the competition, because he has a secret force behind him — God.
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(09/25/18 10:00am)
On Fridays, Ben LoCascio '20 spends the day selling lattes from a small cart in Uper Usdan. While the competition on campus is large, he says making coffee is his calling.