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After a brief spell of 80-degree weather, the temperature plunged back into the 30s and 40s, necessitating the return of the heating system on campus. It takes two weeks for the university to prepare the air conditioning equipment, according to Associate Vice President for Facilities Peter Shields. “The biggest effort is preparing the cooling towers […]
Deborah Bial ’87, founder and president of the Posse Foundation, will deliver the 2012 commencement address, President Fred Lawrence announced at the university’s board of trustees meeting on Wednesday. Along with two Nobel Prize winners, a musical educator, and former philanthropist and Brandeis trustee Myra Kraft who passed away last year, Bial will receive an […]
President Obama nominated Dartmouth College president Jim Yong Kim last Friday to lead the World Bank. Although applauded nationally for his background in economic development, Dartmouth students have voiced concerns over student life issues during Kim’s presidency. After only a three-year term as Dartmouth College’s president, the second shortest in the history of the college, […]
Sarah Sobieraj, professor of Sociology at Tufts University and recent author of “Soundbitten: The Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism,” led a lecture titled “Covered: Activists, Journalists, and News in a Shifting Media Landscape” on Thursday afternoon in the Mandel Reading Room. She discussed the forms of rhetoric used by popular media and the “unsettling” relationship […]
Five Israeli Knesset members participated in a town-hall style meeting at Temple Emanuel in Newton on Monday evening. For the second year in a row, members of Brandeis Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) interrupted the Ruderman fellow event in protest, this time shouting, “Israel is an apartheid state and the Knesset is an apartheid […]
Presenting the lecture “On the Organization of Sacred Time Among Jews and Christians,” Professor Israel Yuval of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem spoke to the Brandeis community regarding his recent revelations on the intricate connections between Judaism and Christianity. Yuval initiated the discussion by denouncing his own former conviction that Judaism and Christianity signified “sister […]
The Gender and International Development Initiatives (GaIDI) at the Women’s Studies Research Center screened the documentary “Not My Life,” directed and produced by Oscar nominee Robert Bilheimer and narrated by Glenn Close, this past Monday about the international child trafficking and slave trade. Dr. Mei-Mei Ellerman started the event by passing out tissues. Ellerman is […]
“Pink slime.” Yuck. Try saying it: “pink slime.” The syllables feel gross in your mouth. Now picture it: a light pink—the same color as raw ground beef—gel oozing across your plate. “Pink slime” is the newest cause of parents everywhere since ABC had a report this month decrying its use in our fast food and […]
“Why is it that I always have supper in the red dish and my drinking water in the yellow dish?” a wise beagle asks himself in the musical “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown,” which Tympanium Euphorium is staging this weekend. “One of these days, I’m going to have my supper in the yellow dish […]
In a one-hour roundtable lecture and question session titled “Arguing About World War I: A Transatlantic Story” co-sponsored by the German and European Studies and History departments, visiting Duke University Professor Philipp Stelzel offered insight into the Fritz Fischer controversy and the differing views on the causes of World War I. The focus of the […]
