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(10/21/25 10:00am)
On Sept. 28, we had the opportunity to view Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie “One Battle After Another,” and listen to a panel of experts discuss the movie afterward. One of the points the panel touched on was that the “One Battle After Another” is an adaptation loosely based on Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel “Vineland.” The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Bob Ferguson, a retired revolutionary suffering from overwhelming paranoia trying to raise his daughter, Willa (Chase Infiniti), in seclusion, while the United States falls into disrepair around them.
(10/21/25 10:00am)
As of August 2025, Stanford University’s student newspaper, The Stanford Daily, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging its campaign of censorship and retaliation against student journalists, particularly noncitizens, who share their truth. In Stanford Daily Publishing Corp. et al. v. Rubio et al. the plaintiff accused Secretary Marco Rubio and the administration of abusing two provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act to censor lawfully-present noncitizens in the United States. Represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, the Daily’s case underscores a broader, more disturbing reality: for student journalists, the cost of free expression may now include surveillance, detention and deportation.
(09/30/25 10:00am)
Brandeis University earned an overall F in the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s 2026 free speech rankings, placing 149th of 257 U.S. colleges and universities. The school’s rules received a “yellow light” designation, meaning Brandeis has chosen policies that may be applied in a way that violates rights to free speech. “That means that there’s one or more speech code policies in a student handbook, faculty handbook, somewhere … that they’re worded in a way that they could be applied unconstitutionally. It’s vague or arbitrary wording,” said Sean Stevens, chief research advisor at FIRE, in a Sep. 26 interview with The Justice.
(05/19/25 10:00am)
After the mass layoffs that have continued to increase under the Trump administration, the reality of poverty is closer than ever before for many Americans. The past few years have seen an increase in the number of people experiencing housing insecurity with almost 40% of the United States population in 2023. While the term “homelessness” has negative connotations and stereotypes attached, the truth is there are so many ways in which one can lose their housing — from having a major health concern to losing a job or leaving a situation of domestic violence. In particular, the Netflix series “Maid” has interrogated the complexity of poverty in a particularly poignant way.
(04/01/25 10:00am)
(03/18/25 10:00am)
During the March 10 Waltham City Council meeting, council members, including Ward 9 Councilor Robert G. Logan, Ward 8 Councilor Cathyann Harris, Councilor-at-Large Carlos A. Vidal, Ward 3 Councilor William Hanley, Ward 7 Councilor Paul S. Katz, Ward 1 Councilor Anthony LaFauci, Ward 6 Councilor Sean Durkee, Councilor-at-Large Colleen Bradley-MacArthur and Ward 2 Councilor Caren Dunn introduced a resolution urging the city of Waltham to adopt a web-based reporting system. This system, which would be accessible via a mobile app, would allow residents to report non-emergency neighborhood issues such as potholes, rat sightings and streetlight outages.
(03/04/25 11:00am)
Hosted by Conan O’Brien, this year’s Academy Awards was a spectacle that paid tribute to icons of filmmaking, especially in a location as influential as Los Angeles. During its first moments, the broadcast honored the city showing prominent film clips of the Griffith Observatory and Hollywood Hills among other landmarks. To start off the night, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande performed beautiful songs from “The Wizard of Oz”, “The Wiz” and “Wicked” showing there’s no place like home. Undoubtedly, the evening was about honoring what goes beyond the screen and the global impact of authentic storytelling.
(02/04/25 11:00am)
On Jan. 27, during a Waltham City Council meeting, Ward Nine Councilor Robert Logan introduced a resolution that the city council adopt a recently approved state law that allows for school districts to use bus mounted cameras to identify and issue fines against drivers that pass stopped school buses. This Local Option Act requires the City of Waltham to adopt the new law and for the Waltham School Committee to provide consent through a vote of a majority in order for it to be implemented.
(11/19/24 11:00am)
On Nov. 12, 2024, the Waltham City Council voted in favor of allocating $6 million from the City’s Community Preservation Act fund to help the Waltham Boys and Girls Club with a building improvement. The funding from the city is a fraction of the $25,310,000 total cost of the proposed project.
(10/31/23 10:00am)
A packed audience of Waltham residents came out to the Clark Government Center in downtown Waltham on Thursday, Oct. 26 to hear Waltham’s mayoral candidates share their visions for the future of Waltham and see their leadership styles clash. Jeannette A. McCarthy, the incumbent who is running for her sixth consecutive term, is facing off against Jonathan Paz, a second-term city councilor from Ward 9; the election is non-partisan. At issue was the future of the city's transportation system, the management of the 190 acres of land that previously housed the Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center, and the rise in housing prices.
(05/22/23 10:00am)
Content warning: this article discusses and contains images of and pertaining to instances of white supremacy, Nazism, and related hate and violence.
(04/25/23 10:00am)
Luck has not favored the Brandeis Baseball team this season. Sitting with a record of 5-27, the team has struggled to compete both in conference and out. In their University Athletic Association match-up versus Emory University, the Eagles scored a combined 62 runs in their Saturday, April 8 doubleheader — 31 runs in each game. The margin of difference — 4-31 and 7-31 in game one and two, respectively — were so great that the MLB website ran a story on its account. With 12 first-year players on the roster, the Judges have certainly felt the growing pains this season.
(03/28/23 10:00am)
(03/21/23 10:00am)
“Everyone in our band is so talented [...] we all deserve a solo” —Cheem
(03/14/23 10:00am)
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On Sept. 21, the Creative Writing Program held the first in-person “Creative Writing Reading Series” event since the start of the pandemic, showcasing the poetry of Boston Poet Laureate and current Brandeis Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence, Porsha Olayiwola.
(09/13/22 10:00am)
To undergo an offseason as an NFL fan is an anxiety-inducing, 29-week drought until the start of the regular season. Each day is filled with instability: the madness of the free-agency period, a sudden breaking news tweet from the all-knowing Adam Schefter, a star player being traded, a long-time veteran retiring, or players being released from their teams. Luckily for us, September is here, and the stability of our beloved football is back.
(02/15/22 11:00am)
The Los Angeles Rams have won Super Bowl LVI against the Cincinnati Bengals. This is the second Super Bowl win in franchise history after they won the Super Bowl XXXIV against the Tennessee titans in 1999, reported CBS news.
(02/08/22 11:00am)
On Feb. 13, the Cincinnati Bengals will be traveling to SoFi Stadium to play the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LVI. SoFi Stadium is located in Inglewood, California and is home to the Rams. This will be the second consecutive year that a team will be competing for the championship on their home turf. Last year, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers hosted the Kansas City Chiefs at Raymond James Field and produced a monumental win, capturing the recently retired NFL legend Tom Brady’s seventh ring. Prior to the 2020 Super Bowl, no team had ever played for the championship at their home field.
