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After missing last year’s 24-Hour Musical, I made sure to see this year’s performance. I got in line in front of the SCC at around 5 p.m., three hours before the curtains rose, and still found myself only halfway through line. From what I’ve heard, this year’s show was much better organized than last year’s. […]
I was in Boston on 9/11/01, on the faculty of the Boston University School of Law. It was a beautiful morning, but otherwise a routine day as the law school and the university got into the flow of fall term. I had driven our children and several others to their school that morning—it was my […]
It is impossible for Claudia Jacobs ’70 to forget the pain of Sept. 11, 2001, as society reminds her every day of the terrorist attacks that devastated a nation, reshaping American life as we knew it and turning her own life upside down. Sept. 11 is more than a defining moment in American history to […]
Hurricane Irene struck the Brandeis family with tragedy this weekend, claiming the life of Michael Kenwood ’94, a university alumnus who lived the values of heroism and selflessness to their fullest degree. Kenwood, a former director of the Brandeis Emergency Medical Corps (BEMCo) who dedicated his life to saving others as a volunteer emergency medical […]
Our culture is obsessed with the origins and beginnings of our icons—think George Washington and the cherry tree, this summer’s “X-Men: First Class” and, of course, “Muppet Babies.” We have an insatiable desire to know what shaped them into the legendary figures we know today and it’s a desire that’s unlikely to be quenched anytime […]
Just in time to welcome the Brandeis class of 2015, Hurricane Irene crashed down on the first day of first-year orientation, forcing faculty and staff to make quick safety decisions and rearrange the orientation schedule. As Governor Deval Patrick declared a state of emergency in Massachusetts last weekend, Brandeis canceled the first day of move-in […]
For up-to-date hurricane coverage, please follow our website at thebrandeishoot.com or follow us on Twitter @TheBrandeisHoot from your mobile device. Brandeis canceled all move-in and orientation activities on Sunday as Governor Deval Patrick declared a state of emergency in Massachusetts and the Commonwealth prepares for Hurricane Irene. Irene, currently a category one hurricane, struck the […]
