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Encourage American reciprocity to help the less fortunate

(04/21/15 4:41am)

Spending just one day in a U.S. suburb is enough to realize how rich and prosperous most Americans are. While this is an obvious fact to those living in the slums of Mumbai or to the struggling mother of three in Detroit, most Americans do not see this. While the rest of the world’s bereavements are overlooked, our own first world problems ignite coffee table buzz and intellectual pomp. However, for such talk, little is actually done. Despite our wealth of blessings, affluent Americans fail to give back to the people most in need. 








Deny Beijing 2022 Olympics bid on human rights violations

(03/24/15 6:07am)

I remember it well. It was 2008, and among the bookshelves in my library were signs for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics—promoting books related to the place, I suppose. SBeing the suppressed twelve-year-old activist I was at that point, I proceeded to turn the sign on its face, covering the icon of the games that I believed represented such evil in our world. In my mind, the responsibility China had in encouraging the genocide in Darfur was all too much to handle, making my stomach churn. The Olympic Games were intended to exist as a symbol of global collaboration and harmony, not a representation of self-interest and violence. Now, I couldn’t watch them. 






Administrators discuss future campus sustainability goals

(03/03/15 7:53am)

Last Thursday, the Senate Sustainability Committee hosted its second annual State of Sustainability Town Hall, in which students questioned administrators on the progress of sustainability initiatives on campus. The administrators discussed several sustainability improvements the University has made, including the hiring of a new sustainability manager, the large reduction in natural gas usage and an initiative to use more solar energy on campus.




Women's fencing goes 3-2 at invitational

(02/09/15 8:30pm)

The women’s fencing team fought its way to a 3-2 record in Teaneck, New Jersey at the Farleigh Dickinson University Invitational this past Sunday. The Judges started off their day with a defeat to the 10th-ranked Temple University, with saber Ashley Jean ’17 notching two of Brandeis’ five wins in the match. She finished the day with an overall record of 12-2.




Boko Haram massacre must not be ignored

(01/27/15 2:44am)

By most accounts, this was a slow week in the news. After the excitement of President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, the headlines mostly turned to analyses of the speech, continued coverage of the Charlie Hebdo terror attack and its international response and a national scandal over whether or not—shock and horror!—a football was slightly deflated at an important Patriots game. This story has huge consequences for the football community, but for those of us who couldn’t care less one way or the other about sports, it was a rather ho-hum time to be browsing Google News. The front page stories of Sunday’s New York Times, for example, focused on tax policy shifts being proposed by eight Republicans, an exploration of the Vatican’s current stance on divorce, new evidence in a 50-year-old murder case and something headlined "North Korea’s Forbidden Love? Smuggled, Illegal Soap Operas."