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I’m sure most self-respecting liberal arts students do not consider Lady GaGa a gold standard for cultural consumption. For the most part, I would agree. Lady GaGa in many ways represents all that is wrong with pop culture. Her songs, and especially her videos, are the musical equivalents of empty calories. They are loaded with […]
Before last week, artist Peter Maphatsoe had never travelled outside of southern Africa. This week he got a taste of North American culture and shared a bit of his own culture at the same time. Maphatsoe displayed his paintings in an exhibition in Montreal, Canada last week and has spent several days at Brandeis, visiting […]
Open Fields Community Theater will be performing “Rent” at Regis College over the next two weekends, with Brandeis student Nick Maletta ’13 as Collins, a philosopher and anarchist. Maletta, originally from Sherborn, Mass., became involved with the theatre at the end of his junior year of high school and returned to the stage for “Rent” […]
The ease with which the Dirty Projectors perform feats of pure musical acrobatics belies the fact that they might just be the hardest working indie band around today. Between front man Dave Longstreth’s demands for marathon rehearsals and an exhausting touring schedule, the group has managed to work its way to the top of critical […]
AMC’s hit mini-series “The Prisoner” is worthwhile television for Brandeis students. Staying true to the original series upon which it is based, “The Prisoner” tells the story of one man’s attempt to escape the utopian village where he (Jim Caviezel) one day wakes up and finds himself. Before waking up in the village, the man […]
In a Ridgewood suite, visitors to Brandeis have slightly redecorated in order to feel more at home, including brewing a fresh pot of strong Turkish coffee and hanging a Palestinian flag in the window. The visitors are students and recent graduates of Al-Quds University, one of the few Arab universities in Palestinian-controlled East Jerusalem. Students […]
n]The university will begin inoculating “high priority” high risk students with the H1N1 vaccine today. The university has already inoculated Brandeis healh care workers with the H1N1 vaccine earlier this week, and will now begin to inoculate high risk students. Director of the Health Center Dr. Debra Poaster wrote in an e-mail message to The […]
The university faculty will select its members next week to represent the faculty in the search for a new president, as announced at last Thursday’s faculty meeting. The positions on the Faculty Advisory Committee to the Presidential Search Committee will be run by an electronic election still being drafted. The proposal now moving forward allows […]
Five international students from several undergraduate and graduate programs spoke about their experiences regarding American culture at a forum sponsored by the International Students and Scholars Office in the Levin-Ross room in the Hassenfeld Conference Center on Tuesday evening. The panel featured Georiga Luikens, a PhD student from Australia, Vinodini Murugesan, a PhD student from […]
A panel of experts on autism spectrum disorders discussed the possible causes of autism in a medical discussion that was held in conjunction with Autism Awareness Week on Monday. The panel consisted of Dr. Martha Herbert, Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Elizabeth Sajdel-Sulkowska, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Harvard Medical School, […]
