A few weeks ago, I went to a stand-up comedy show with my cousin Josh. As we were talking on the car ride home, he stumbled upon what I think might be the most simple way to combat municipal poverty that I have ever heard, as well as a truly brilliant public relations strategy for whatever school is crazy enough to try it.
On Sunday, the United Nations launched an ambitious new women’s rights campaign aimed at people that don’t care about women’s rights campaigns.
On March 31, Brandeis released its list of honorary degree recipients for this year's commencement ceremony, including keynote speaker Geoffrey Canada, and five other hon-orees. Among these other honorees was Ayaan Hirsi Ali, whose nomination caused an uproar in the Brandeis community, leading to her degree invitation being rescinded.
The first day of April marks an interesting accomplishment for our country. It hasn't been written about anywhere in the news, which is exactly what makes it notable.
Last Thursday marked the passing of America's universal bad guy. No matter who you are and no matter what you believed, no matter your sexuality, religion, politics or class, you probably hated Fred Phelps. Everyone hated Phelps, pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church.
Last summer, a few weeks before I first came to Brandeis, a bunch of my high school friends and I were sitting around in a basement thinking about what we wanted to do in college.
The Super Bowl is a curiously American tradition; Friends and families gather together around the TV, with some watching for the football game itself, but others watching only for the advertisements. This year, one ad in particular stood out.
A few weeks ago, the Yale Daily News, a Yale University student newspaper which self-identifies as "the oldest college daily," published one of the most important and terrifying op-ed pieces I've read in a long time.
For every great communication technology, there have been people who control it. Newspapers like the Justice rely on editors to judge which stories should be featured in each issue, and determine how much space each story earns.
Let's do a little exercise: When you were in high school, probably sophomore or junior year, did you have to read George Orwell's 1984 for English class?
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