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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 […]
This board was disturbed and hurt by the vandalism to the Muslim Student Association (MSA) suite this week. We were equally disturbed and hurt by the suggestion that such actions could be blamed on “the Jews” as one individual wrote on the wall of a Facebook event created to show support for the MSA. The […]
When the Justice Brandeis Semester (JBS) was first suggested last year, there were more than a few skeptics. Were students going to bite? Were they going to take this opportunity to either earn extra credit during the summer and graduate early or to pay less tuition and live off-campus? Despite these concerns, the university decided […]
The usual dinner crowd surrounded Einstein’s Bagels. Students browsed through shelves full of prefabricated salads, chip bags and microwaveable meals. They peered into the refrigerators, selecting one Coca-Cola product or another. Each swipe of a WhoCard indicated to those surrounding that, for yet another student, dinner was served. Amid the cacophony of continuous transactions, I […]
Alright, stand back everybody. I’m going to try something unprecedented with this week’s column, something new that I’ve never done before. So watch out, ’cause anything can happen. Today, I’m going to break a long-standing principle of mine, and actually write… about… POLITICS!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! Well, not really. As my legions of devoted readers (Hi Mom!) […]
