Lecture focuses on Mandela, apartheid
Dr. Robert Trent Vinson gave a guest lecture last Thursday on anti-apartheid advocate Albert Luthuli.
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Use Nemtsov assassination to reexamine Russian power
“I’m jealous, Viktor. You don’t answer to anyone. You have no real opposition, you know exactly how every election is going to turn out.” So says Frank Underwood to the fictionalized Russian president Viktor Petrov in the new third season of House of Cards, which premiered on Friday.
Anti-vaccination movement ignores rational argument
Politics is rarely simple. Our world is confronted by a multitude of issues, a multitude of theories about how to solve them and a multitude of critiques of those same theories.
Boko Haram massacre must not be ignored
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.
Honor defendant's rights in Marathon bombing trial
The world is now approaching the final chapter in the tragedy of the Boston Marathon bombings. Dzokhar Tsarnaev, the 21-year-old Chechen accused of planning and detonating two homemade pressure cooker bombs along with his deceased brother Tamerlan, entered court on Jan.
Focus Brown and Garner protests on specific goals
On Aug. 9, in Feguson, Mo., 19-year-old Michael Brown was shot. At 11:54 a.m., he allegedly stole a few cigarillos from a liquor store, and walked a few blocks away with his friend Dorian Johnson until he was stopped by police officer Darren Wilson.
Fully consider shortcomings of current gamification in education
I was sitting in a class on Monday, listening to a professor give a deeply involved lecture on a complex topic and absorbing absolutely none of it.
Avoid biased online media outlets to uphold journalistic integrity
There’s a website called Vox, and I hate myself for using it as often as I do.It represents the future of journalism?or at least, a future?as newspapers struggle to remain relevant in the digital age.
Overcoming partisan divisions is critical to democracy
This past June, Stanford University professors Shanto Iyengar and Sean J. Westwood released a new study titled “Fear and Loathing Across Party Lines: New Evidence on Group Polarization.” The findings are fascinating.
Define and re-examine "social justice" in Brandeis community
When I applied to Brandeis, I applied because it met a set of criteria that I was pursuing: a respected liberal arts school, with a small student-to-professor ratio, academically strong in my areas of interest that regularly accepts students with my high school grade point average and course rigor.
How did the City of Waltham vote in the 2024 Presidential Election?
Alumni circulate petition to keep official Brandeis emails
Moving forward: Lulu Ohm '25 welcomes a new era of Brandeis women's basketball
Community receives message titled “Social Justice and Free Expression”
Getting to know the Brandeis fencing team