Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Sex, drugs and classical music are three terms not often used together. Yet Amazon emblazons all three across their promo for their new video pilot, “Mozart in the Jungle,” making for a surprisingly stellar show. “Mozart in the Jungle” hinges the on the New York classical music scene, arguably the highest echelon of classical music. […]
On Monday, Feb. 10, David Shneer, a professor at the University of Colorado, gave a distinctive insight into perceptions of the Holocaust through photos. The event titled “Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust,” was named after Shneer’s book published in 2011. Students, adults and people from the Waltham area attended the event, […]
Last Sunday, the SCC was clattering away with a room full of tap dancers, with a performance by Hooked on Tap. The show was about an hour long and was absolutely splendid. Being a tap dancer myself, I was inspired to get back into tap dancing after watching the show. Tap dancing may look like […]
Last week, on Thursday, Feb. 6, a ceremony was to be held in the Harlan Chapel to celebrate the opening of a Hindu prayer space at Brandeis. It was organized as an attempt to advocate interfaith understanding and to provide Hindu students with the convenient provision of a prayer space. The ceremony, titled “Murthi Sthapana” […]
Brandeis Pluralism Alliance sponsored an exhibit for ’DEIS Impact titled “Pluralism, Unity, Social Justice and the Arts: An Art Exhibition” from Feb. 1 through Feb. 5. The reception for the event was held in the SCC on Feb. 4. Brandeis Pluralism Alliance (BPA) is an organization on campus that promotes unity through sponsoring events and […]
Three serious injuries call for immediate need for improved crosswalk safety precautions In the wake of an event that The Boston Globe hailed as “peril at Brandeis,” where terrified parents called their children as soon as hearing about the event on the news, The Hoot’s point of view on the car that struck three students […]
Bombay Bicycle Club, a London-based band, is known for their innovative indie music. Having produced three critically acclaimed albums in three years, their fourth album, which took three years to produce, had to meet high expectations. Although most indie critics like to pin the changing style of Bombay Bicycle Club’s sound to their status as […]
Do you remember applying to college? There was so much involved: the tests, the essays, the actual filling out of applications. Everyone has their own story of how they got to college. It is easy to think back on the whole thing, but people sometimes forget how stressful it was, especially because of everything that […]
It’s a fairly common occurrence most mornings here at Brandeis; in the midst of a thought-provoking, major-changing discussion on how the word “inspired” used to mean to have something blown into you in Chaucer’s time and it traces to the term “respiratory,” such as the lungs, when you notice something. While you are trying your […]
The women’s basketball team won a close game on Friday in Cleveland against Case Western Reserve University. The final score was 63-58. The game featured eight ties and 11 lead changes. The Spartans began with an early 9-2 lead, but the Judges responded with a 9-0 run that included three jump shots by guard Kasey […]
