MATT BROWN:Stringent drinking laws and a high drinking age help no one
It sometimes feels that, from an institutional standpoint, alcohol is anathema to the Office of Student Life.
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Prospect's pizza a staff favorite
Last issue, I wrote about dessert pie, so now, pizza pie! College without pizza is like life without oxygen (if you're not a plant). That analogy may go too far, but not by much.
Latex lust
To say that Levin Ballroom was packed Thursday would be an understatement. With students and even some parents resorting to sitting on the floor, Liquid Latex proved once again to be one of the most popular annual performances.
Making the perfect pie
A wise man once said, "Show me someone who doesn't like pie, and I'll show you someone with broken taste buds."Well, that's actually not true; I made that up just now.
MATT BROWN: Student Union elections' flaws help to foster apathy in students
It's Student Union election season, which means that punny posters are covering the campus once again.
Alumni offer words of wisdom on the 'biz'
Five alumni and the manager of a sixth spoke Saturday about their careers in film and television and offered advice to students aspiring to work in the business.Jeremy Larner '58, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of The Candidate; Ross Martin '95, the head of programming for MTVu; David Ian Salter '88, a film editor for Finding Nemo; Donald Silvey '84, vice president of strategic planning for Lifetime Entertainment; Clare Tully '80, an entertainment lawyer; and Erwin Stoff, a producer and manager of, among others, Debra Messing '90, spoke to a crowd of about 60 in Sherman Function Hall.Their backgrounds held a common theme: Regardless of whether they intended initially on entering the entertainment industry out of college, none of them are doing exactly what they pictured-Stoff, for example, earned a doctorate before making his way to Los Angeles.This is in part due to the fact that throughout the 1980s-when three of the five alumni graduated-Brandeis had no film studies program, they said.According to Martin, those interested in content-based fields should not go to graduate school, because it is more valuable to "get things wrong and experiment."Salter agreed, calling his time at USC Film School a "wash," citing the networking connections he made as among the few overall benefits.
MATT BROWN: Calls to boycott Brandeis asinine
It's no surprise that we can still feel the ripples of former President Jimmy Carter's visit to campus.
Kosher eats of the Far East
It's easy to start off a restaurant review with a disparaging remark about the state of campus dining; in this case, the comparison is actually warranted.
MATT BROWN: Cartermania made Brandeis feel like a 'normal' university
When former President Jimmy Carter said last week that the invitation to have him speak in the Shapiro Gymnasium had "gotten almost as much publicity" as his inaugural address in 1977, he wasn't exaggerating as much as many in the audience might have thought.
Brandeis' best bets for a big bunch of brunch
Most weekend mornings, I'd much rather fork out a fiver than face the prospect of having to clean up my bowl of cereal-and I know I'm not alone.
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Waltham residents protest the Trump Administration