EDITORIAL: Celebrate Rose's revival and recent successes
Kim Conaty, the assistant curator of drawings and prints at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, was appointed curator for the Rose Art Museum on Nov.
EDITORIAL: Maintain careful eye on A-board proceedings
On Friday, students voted in favor of an amendment to the Undergraduate Student Union constitution that will expand the size and term lengths of the Allocations Board members, including adding four members to the board, granting year-long and three semester terms to board members and clarifying that the chairperson of the board will be selected to serve a maximum of one term by A-Board members. Since student groups raised concerns over the club funding decision-making process, the Student Union has taken clear action to reform the A-Board.
Views on the News: Nepal elections
On Oct. 28, the Nepalese parliament elected its first female president, Vidya Devi Bhandari, to serve as a ceremonial head.
Condemn African dictators for undermining democracy
“Please explain this to me like I’m a five year old.” I guess this can be said about nearly every decision that I read about African politics, but this one is one of those decisions that makes vomit fill my mouth and the ground below my feet feel shaky. This July, Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza stole a third term and changed his country’s constitution despite great opposition from his own party — claiming that his first term did not count on the grounds that he was appointed by Parliament rather than being elected by popular vote.
Democratic dialogue needed on Syria intervention
On Oct. 30, President Obama announced plans to deploy around 50 Special Operations forces to Syria — a decision which, according to an Oct.
Repealing Houston Equal Rights Ordinance denies basic rights
By most measures, 2015 has been a good year for the American LGBTQ community. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality.
Questions at Republican debate lack focus on issues
On Oct. 28, CNBC hosted the highly controversial third Republican presidential debate. The moderators were criticized throughout the night by the candidates for their attempts to have the candidates go on the offensive against each other, their attempt to ask questions about debunked scandals meant to make the candidates look bad instead of discussing important issues and the open contempt that the moderators exuded toward the presidential candidates. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) received the biggest applause of the night, and the highest line score that pollster Frank Luntz said he ever recorded, when he called out CNBC’s moderators and the mainstream media, stating that the “questions asked in this debate illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media ... Donald Trump, are you a comic book villain?
Reconsider Congressional Republicans’ roles in government
For all the talk by pundits and politicians of how Washington, D.C. is “broken” and how “things can’t get done,” congressional Republicans and Democrats sure seem to be proving that notion wrong in the worst of ways.
EDITORIAL: Recognize student divestment attempts
Early last week, students and faculty members representing the group “Brandeis Climate Justice” staged several public events to protest the University’s continued investment in Fossil Fuels.
Views on the News: Foreign aid
On Monday, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit remote areas of northern Afghanistan and Pakistan, killing 364 and injuring over 2,000 more.
EDITORIAL: Applaud Sarkeesian speaking event
When feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian was invited to Utah State University in 2014, her lecture was canceled due to security concerns.
Reevaluate international opinion of Snowden’s actions
Edward Snowden was all over the news when I graduated high school in 2013. It was still surprising, though, when our salutatorian stood up and made his speech about the Snowden case — one in which a former government contracted employee had leaked classified information from the National Security Agency.
Scrutinize global response to protracted Syrian Civil War
The Syrian Civil War has been referred to as one of the most devastating humanitarian crises of the 21st century, with an Oct.
Two-child policy does not address systematic flaws
In the late 1970s, China launched a feeble attempt to reduce its population growth and resource consumption at the expense of its citizens’ autonomy and safety.
Criticize Carson’s misguided Holocaust comments
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson, a former neurosurgeon and 2016 candidate for president of the United States, caused an uproar recently when he claimed that gun control measures played a major role in the extermination of six million Jews during the Holocaust. “I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed,” said Carson in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Oct.
Views on the News: Canada's elections
Canada elected its first new prime minister in nearly a decade last Monday, as the Conservative Party’s Stephen Harper was ousted by Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party, which also gained an absolute majority in the country’s government.
EDITORIAL: Reflect on Lynch’s State of the University address
This past Saturday, Interim President Lisa Lynch hosted a State of the University talk designed to inform visiting parents about the University’s recent achievements.
Reconsider Al-Quds culture before renewing relationship
On Oct. 3, Muhannad Halabi, 19, a resident of Ramallah, killed two Israeli men, Nehemia Lavi, 41, and Aharon Benita-Bennett, 22, in a terror attack in Jerusalem.
EDITORIAL: Reexamine Allocations Board funding process
On Wednesday, Oct. 14, the student Allocations Board released their yearly budget decisions, which included significantly reduced funding from what clubs requested and have received in previous years.
Scrutinize Nobel Peace Prize candidate vetting process
And the results are in! For the 2015 year, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has been declared the winner of China’s Confucius Peace Prize for the Founding Leader as “he brought benefit to the people of Zimbabwe.” This benefit so frequently manifests itself in the presence of mass atrocities and election violence, but maybe for a moment let’s put that aside to reevaluate how we got here. The prize was first awarded in 2010 in response to the Nobel Committee’s choice to give the Nobel Prize to Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident who spent 11 years in prison.
Fighting Authoritarianism Brandeis holds May Day protest
Examining the March 24 ICE misidentification on campus
New damages found at Polaris lounge