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The women’s soccer team ended their season on Sunday with a loss in the ECAC finals to the Keene State Owls. The Judges went down in penalty kicks after regulation and overtime failed to produce a winner. Brandeis defeated the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Trailblazers on Saturday afternoon in penalty kicks. The Judges got […]
Israeli novelist Amos Oz spoke about the need for compromise between Israelis and Palestinians at Hassenfeld Conference Center Sunday night in a lecture sponsored by the Schusterman Center for Israeli Studies. Oz, who grew up on a Kibbutz, a communal living environment based on utopian society in Israel, explained that “Israel was born out of […]
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 […]
