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University Provost Marty Krauss has approved all 17 of the Brandeis 2020 Committee’s proposals to suspend or restructure academic programs in order to save the university $3.8 million annually beginning in 2012. Krauss also altered the Committee’s original proposal to terminate the Ph.D. program in anthropology and has instead proposed that the program “be retained […]
Sayed Kashua, screenwriter for the popular Israeli television show “Arab Labor,” and columnist for the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, answered questions after a screening of an episode from the first season of the show Tuesday evening. Much of the first season of “Arab Labor” centers on the beginning romance between an Israeli man and an Arab […]
The first performance of Henry Purcell’s definitive work, the opera “Dido and Aeneas,” occurred in 1689 at a London girl’s school. Three hundred and twenty-one years later, it can still sound fresh and lively if it’s presented by an organization with as much talent as the Brandeis University Department of Music. Last Sunday’s staging of […]
Unsurprisingly, the Levin Ballroom was packed to capacity on Thursday night, with all seats filled and numerous people standing in the back of the room, all in anticipation of Liquid Latex’s 10th annual show. Every year, students get on stage and prance about with nothing on but latex and a lot of creativity, which always […]
An ungodly runtime, hosts with mediocre jokes, long clip montages with no apparent purpose and sometimes dubious winners. Every year, critics and viewers alike lodge these complaints against the annual Academy Awards, yet tens of millions still watch the ceremony every year—and that’s just in the United States alone. Why? I asked myself this question […]
Clever stage direction and stellar acting made the Free Play Theatre Cooperative’s production “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” an enjoyable experience. However, Tom Stoppard’s uneven and muddled script left the audience feeling dissatisfied. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the often forgotten minor characters from William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” take center stage in Stoppard’s script. In Shakespeare’s mammoth play, […]
The experience of watching “Alice in Wonderland,” the newest film from zany director Tim Burton, in 3-D was like falling down a rabbit hole and being bored by the fall. Sure, the situation itself is odd enough, but there are no significant surprises. My attitude may be a result of overly high expectations and my […]
As she slept in her hotel room on the last night of her study abroad orientation in Valparaiso and Vina del Mar, Chile on Feb. 28, Quinn Lockwood ’11 felt the shocks of one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded. “We certainly felt the shaking. [It was] very scary, and the hotel sustained some damage, […]
Proposed Amendment 1: Student Union Government restructuring • Part one would replace the legislative powers of the Union Senate into an Assembly and Club Support Board. • Under the committee’s proposal, the Vice President would be internally elected by the Assembly—merging the position with executiv senator. • The Union Judiciary would become […]
In April 2009 the Student Union Judiciary (UJ) was unable to come to a majority opinion in a case that questioned the legality of the Racial Minority Senator position. The UJ instead ruled that the fate of the Union position created in the early 1990s should be decided by the Union’s Constitutional Review Committee this […]
