Last week, the editors of the Justice did something that, to my knowledge, no Justice editor has ever done before: They entered the fray and endorsed a candidate from each of the two major political parties, just in time for the Massachusetts primary Feb.
Well, students aren't the only ones who begin to feel the semester getting away from them after midterm exams have taken place.
Late last month, I had an eye-opening experience.On March 28, the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences hosted an on-campus symposium titled "Justice Begins at Home: Building Brandeis-Waltham Community Partnerships." The goal of the symposium was to alert faculty and students to the fact that the community of Waltham can be a wonderful teaching arena-and that there are, just beyond Brandeis' metaphorical gates, countless opportunities for students to become engaged with the cultural, legal, and social issues that animate life in America today.I don't actually know whether the symposium was covered by the Justice.
I would like to take an opportunity this week to re-emphasize a point that I have made in this column before-and that anyone who knows anything at all about the direction the news industry has been taking will undoubtedly echo: The Internet has altered, changed, re-formed and modified, expanded, increased, enlarged and multiplied the audiences served by newspapers throughout the world.
It is, apparently, time for me to offer up another evaluation of the Justice.It had been my intention to comment on the paper's coverage of former President Jimmy Carter's recent visit to Brandeis-which I thought was excellent and far more even-handed, actually, than some of the attention that was given to the event by The Boston Globe.
College newspapers are interesting animals. Just like mainstream newspapers, they seek to provide readers with the information and editorial guidance they need to be free and contributing members of the communities to which they belong.
In the summer of 1954, the American photographer Berenice Abbott set out with a couple of friends to photograph the length and breadth of U.S.
In their book, The Elements of Journalism, Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel lay some pretty hefty obligations at the feet of America's journalists.
Earlier this summer, Dan Hirschhorn '07, the editor in chief of the Justice, approached me about being an ombudsman for the paper.
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