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Students who wander into the Shapiro Campus Center this evening at 9 p.m. will find themselves in the middle of a war zone—a Nerf gun war zone that is. The war will be the main event of Game Knight’s weekly meetings. The Brandeis club, which formerly spelled it’s name “Game Night” until it decided that […]
The Brandeis student community is as diverse in interest as it is in composition. Students actively participate in more than 250 clubs ranging in topics from cooking to Korean culture and from environmental awareness to slam poetry. Each of these organizations caters to a different faction of the student population, allowing students to explore that […]
When Skyler Kasko ’14 arrived at Brandeis, he knew how to juggle and sought out the Brandeis Juggling Society. “It’s a pretty small club, so I’m one of the few regular members,” he said. “I learned something from the club though. The first meeting I went to, I learned to juggle clubs.” The juggling club […]
Danielle Schivek ’11 has been interested in fashion for as long as she can remember, but she never planned to be involved in the fashion industry. That, however, did not stop her from becoming one of three Brandeis seniors to win a prestigious fashion scholarship this year. Schivek joined Abi Katznelson ’11 and Ji Yun […]
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day has traditionally served as a day of reflection, remembrance and service. The holiday at Brandeis, with its history of commitment to social action, is no exception. This year, the sixth annual Brandeis Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Memorial, was a day focused on service led by a university chaplain and […]
From Dec. 19 through Jan. 4, Brandeis Students Dana Kandel ’14, Amber Kornreich ’12, Avi Fuld ’14, Zahava Horowitz ’14 and Emily Mandel ’12, along with 105 other college students from more that 60 universities nationwide, had the incredible opportunity to travel to Israel with the Hasbara Fellowship. The fellowship was created in 2001 as […]
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman ’75 questioned the ethics of WikiLeaks and technology in journalism during an academic symposium to honor outgoing university President Jehuda Reinharz Dec. 15, 2010 in the Shapiro Campus Center. Friedman, who writes many columns on politics and globalization, said that he was torn about whether WikiLeaks was justified to […]
When Robyn Lederer of Washington D.C. received her letter informing her that she was a midyear she “flipped out.” With some contemplation and encouragement from friends and family, Lederer chose to see the midyear acceptance as an opportunity. According to the Brandeis website, “the opportunity to be a midyear is not one that you may […]
The holiday season is fast approaching and Brandeis Dining Services has taken notice. Whether you take your meals in Sherman, Usdan or the Faculty Club, Dining Services has set up tables in every dining hall advertising their Toys for Tots campaign to collect toys for needy children in the Waltham area. Toys for Tots is […]
Every Monday and Wednesday, a group of girls gathers in Gosman. They are tour guides, belly dancers, Student Union senators, lab assistants and members of Waltham Group. They all share one special bond—they are members of the Brandeis cheerleading squad, a little-known campus group. When Reina Guerrero ’11 joined the cheerleading squad, she had one […]
