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Archive for 2009

What’s going on at Brandeis?

Fencing: Saturday, Feb. 28, 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Gosman Sports Center Support your university’s fencing team at this year’s Intercollegiate Fencing Associaton Championship! All day on Saturday, teams will battle to be the winner of the nation’s oldest fencing competition. Brighton Beach Memoirs: Friday to Sunday, 8 p.m. Shapiro Campus Theater. Don’t miss out […]


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A brief and wondrous reading by Junot Díaz

You could tell just by looking at the audience that something exciting was about to go down. Caribbean American college students, old ladies, and a Boston high school English class all mingled together, atwitter with the prospect of meeting the person behind the words they’d cherished, that starkly original, inventive spinner of tales about the […]


Images of Pakistan reveal a land of beauty

This was written on a blog series about US-Pakistan Relations called Hope Within Pakistan for Senator John Kerry. It is incredibly important for Brandeis students to know not only about Pakistan, but about the entire world. When we look closely and try to learn and understand other cultures, we find how similar we all are […]


Laissez bon temps rouler

Last weekend I traveled to New Orleans for the celebration of Mardi Gras. The holiday, which translates to “Fat Tuesday,” acts as the final party before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. It is celebrated in cities all over the world, notably Brazil’s Carnival. In New Orleans, the festivities begin about a month before […]


An intimate evening in a sold out crowd with Antony

Every generation there comes a singer whose voice radically reshapes conventions and standards of vocal beauty. Artists like Nina Simone, Patti Smith, Tom Waits, and Thom Yorke have each, through their own vocal genius, altered the popular music landscape in significant ways. As I sat spellbound in the balcony of New York City’s legendary Town […]