Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
This past weekend, Brandeis Players put on a production of Joseph Kesselrings Arsenic and Old Lace, directed, stage-managed, and produced by the extremely sexy trio of Michael Glicksman 08, Yarden Abukakis 09, and Pamela Leonard 06.
Capital Expenditures Fund
Established to provide quick funding to clubs that have large, emergency expenses
2% of F-board budget to Cap Ex Fund;
$150,000 cap on fund
This weeks topic concerns a letter to the editor sent in to The Hoot by an alert reader, who shall remain nameless, concerning a column I wrote two weeks ago about the serious, non-humor related topic of dental hygiene for snails. The letter was signed His Name 08. (For those of you wondering, 08 is not actually his family name. At least thats what Ive been hearing on the grapevine these days. It must be what his buddies call him. And believe me when I tell you this: Id run around in circles really fast until I fell down TWICE just for a nickname like 08.)
Within seconds of the exceptional bass-line cutting into the writhing hardcore guitar lick on Sunny Day Real Estates In Circles, the revolutionary vibrations of the bands sound continued to travel with the breathtaking single twelve years after Diary was released. The widely acclaimed album has become a cornerstone for practically every modern rock album in the past decade, influencing the ever-changing face of music, the way Nirvanas Nevermind has affected aspiring musicians. While most bands that have ripped off of Sunny Day Real Estates unique and enticing sound tend to exude nothing more than mediocrity, staleness, and a formulaic sound, the album that helped launch an incredibly diverse and controversial genre sounds as fresh as the day it was printed, packaged, and pressed for release. While Diary and Sunny Day Real Estate continue to offer an invigorating and rewarding experience after repeated encounters, one modern act only offers the banal opposite that the unique Sunny Day Real Estate have offered millions: O.A.R.
There comes an indescribable sense of liberation when Winters grip finally breaks;
a feeling of freedom that perhaps only people in cold climates can appreciate. The first hint of this great deliverance is some hearty chestful of outdoor air breathed in at just the right moment: A rush of earth, moss, decaying leaves, fungi, and dew, mixed in perfect proportion and aged. Yes, thats it! Its coming…
Researchers, Developers, and Scientists are good for the earth,
New technology and discovery, do they give birth.
To improve life on this planet for all to use,
And in turn we lap it up with enthusiastic muse.
Lee Shulman, the President of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, spoke to a mixed crowd of students, faculty, staff, and administrators on Monday, February 27, in Rapaporte Treasure Hall. His talk, called Professing the Liberal Arts: The Fundamental Tension of Liberal and Professional Learning in Higher Education, was both a report on the studies of the Carnegie Foundation and a platform for telling meaningful anecdotes related to what constitutes the most effective kind of liberal arts education. Shulman is an inspiring visionary in the higher education community, believing that the liberal arts must be seen as tools for thought, not just prerequisites for thoughta vision that involves students acting, creating, and experiencing early on in their undergraduate careers. Learning how to think need not always precede action. For effectiveness and engagement, Shulman says, learning involves students in public performance, actively engaging the habits of the mind (theory and thought), of the hand (practice), and of the heart (ethics) all together.
When were young our parents try to instill in us the value of a dollar. Some parents assigned chores in exchange for a monthly or weekly allowance. Five bucks to take out the trash, ten to do the dishes. Some opened up savings accounts where our birthday money was deposited every year. Whatever the strategy may be, most parents attempt to prepare their children for that day when they are officially cut off from the parental money tree. There may be some lucky ones among us whose parents continue to provide unlimited access to their credit card through the college years, but I am certainly not among them.
My mother is a homebound instructor, teaching kids who cannot go to school for some period of time. Her students have ranged from pregnant teens to threats to the community to cancer and other chronic illness patients to stabbing victims and beyond. Four years ago, she was teaching a seventh-grader with bone cancer at the Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh, and his hospital roommate was an eighth-grader, also from our school district and also with bone cancer. (The seventh-grader, family friend Jon Houy, is no longer with us. He passed away at 15 in March 2005, succumbing to a disease that had already taken one of his legs but that had not kept him from excelling as a student and wheelchair basketball player.)
To the Editor:
Im writing to express my deep disappointment in Nathan Ehrlichs article Cheers to Mike (3/10/06). I strongly object to Nathans expletive-filled piece which blames homeless people for their situation. Has Nathan ever been homeless? If not, he should not claim that homeless people really suck for not being able to stay warm in the winter.
