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On Monday, Feb. 3, Tatjana Meschede, senior lecturer at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, contributed her knowledge and experience of homelessness in the conference titled, “A Focus on Homelessness in Local Communities” for ’DEIS Impact. Members of Habitat for Humanity and Hunger and Homelessness, active clubs under the Waltham Group, held the […]
Before the Brandeis Academic Debate and Speech Society (BADASS) ’DEIS Impact debate began, Alyssa Adler ’16 stood in an aisle in Golding Auditorium, preparing to make her case. ’DEIS Impact is Brandeis’ annual festival of social justice, a concept on which the school was founded. BADASS got in on the action with “Debating For a […]
Levin Ballroom was fully packed on Wednesday evening, despite a snowstorm, as the Brandeis community gathered to listen to Kweku Mandela-Amuah and Ndaba Mandela, grandsons of the late Nelson Mandela, deliver the keynote address of ’DEIS Impact week. The event was sponsored by the Ruth First Lecture series in collaboration with the African and Afro-American […]
By the time Sister Helen Prejean, renowned anti-death penalty activist and New York Times bestselling author, stepped back from the podium to take questions from the more than 200 people gathered in Levin Ballroom Thursday night, she was talking to a different audience. The event, presented by the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism and 12 […]
It seemed fitting that I visited “Portraits of Purpose” by photojournalist Don West, while the “Introduction to Jazz Improvisation” class met in the recital hall of Slosberg Music Center. As I circled the room, the sounds of soulful jazz piano wove in and out of a fervent trumpet solo, perfectly capturing the spirit of the […]
Elections for the Student Union are rapidly approaching. Or at least I think they are, because I’ve noticed “Vote For” posters of the candidates plastered around the dorms, and I’m sure they’re very timely. An effort has been made to get the word out about student representatives, and it is earnest enough to make me […]
Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge” is showing this weekend in Laurie Theater in Spingold, sponsored by Brandeis Theater Company. As a part of this week’s ‘DEIS Impact festival, the show highlights social issues such as incest but, more prominently, homophobia. “Only God can make justice,” the play’s narrator, Mr. Alfieri (Alex M. Jacobs […]
Imagine a room full of warm, passionate, intelligent and funny individuals. Inject fierce dedication to social justice, human rights and LGBT pride, and that is the very essence of Queerologues. Queerologues was part of ’DEIS Impact and was put on by the Brandeis Queer Resource Center (QRC), which is a peer education and counseling outreach […]
The fencing teams competed in the second round robin Northeast Conference Meet of the year at Boston College on Saturday, Jan. 25. Brown University, Boston College, Vassar College, Dartmouth College and Tufts University competed in both men’s and women’s competitions, while Smith College competed in only women’s events. The men went 4-1 in the tournament, […]
As many of us are finally settling into our daily routines for the spring semester, midyear students are just finally adjusting to a whole new experience. Thrown into a new school in a new place with new friends in the middle of the year, these midyears are at a significant disadvantage compared to other first-years, […]
