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Brandeis faculty and staff will show off more than 100 works of art at the exhibition, JustArts, on display in the Dreitzer Gallery of Spingold Theater from Nov. 16 through 22. Works displayed will be by individuals from across campus, including the departments of psychology, theater, fine arts and politics; the mail room; LTS; and […]
The set-up is this: A group of strangers enter a room; it is hell. They wait for something dreadful to happen but nothing does. Trapped for an eternity, with nothing but each other’s company and conversation to occupy them, they discover that they are each other’s hell. The Free Play Theatre Cooperative transforms the Mandel […]
November is known to many writers as National Novel Writing Month, otherwise known as NaNoWriMo. NaNoWriMo is an annual creative writing project coordinated by the non-profit organization The Office of Letters and Light. The challenge of NaNoWriMo is to have 50,000 words of either a novel in process or a completed novel by midnight on […]
When “Grey’s Anatomy” announced its new spin-off “Private Practice” in 2007, we weren’t too hopeful. Addison was a whiny adulteress and, although she added to the plot, we couldn’t imagine an entire show about her. After the first few episodes, however, we were hooked. Addison Montgomery, MD, played by Kate Walsh on “Private Practice,” is […]
Danielle Zipkin ’12 has created a short masterpiece. Inspired by movies like “Paris, Je T’aime” and “New York, I Love You,” Zipkin adapted several Brandeis love stories, submitted last year by students, into choreographed dances. Tackling themes ranging from the realization of friendship after heartbreak to self-exploration, Zipkin, with the help of a group of […]
This week, two student groups at Brandeis University are hosting the first “Brandeis Israel Occupation Awareness Week” with a stated goal to present a “nice counterpoint … to the Zionist narrative” through a series of lectures and presentations. This week includes an appearance by MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, who will address Israeli “apartheid,” a speech […]
Let’s start with a story. Last Thursday a few friends and I went to the Student Activities monthly bingo event at Ollie’s. Sometimes nobody wins and sometimes we all win; once I won a nice DVD player. Last Thursday, we noticed that, at a booth next to us, a player had more boards than allowed […]
As my time at Brandeis passes, I find myself more interested in the long history of this institution and its students. It is a view that, unfortunately, few of my fellow students share. Often, Brandeisians will go four whole years without consuming any more than a few anecdotes about the past. The purpose of this […]
As anyone with eyes—let alone a Facebook account—knows, this past week has been “Israeli Occupation Awareness Week.” For those who have managed to avoid the e-mail, Facebook message and flyer campaigns, I will give a brief summary. “Israeli Occupation Awareness Week” was sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine. It […]
College students like to drink. Enforcement of rules against the consumption of alcohol at America’s colleges nearly always fails. This is a fact that every American and certainly every Brandeisian after Pachanga knows; yet, for the past two decades, every state has maintained a legal drinking age of 21 years of age. It would seem […]
