Forgotten, but hardly lost
As her eyes opened for the first time in four months, Tessa Venell ’08 had her very own Wizard in Oz moment. “Am I still in China?” she asked herself as she looked around, taking in the sight of several Asian hospital staff members and recalling her semester abroad. It had been four months since […]
New George Washington club teaches students about America’s History
Although a fair number of us Brandeisian(s) do hail from the Massachusetts area, there are plenty of us from other states, not to mention from other countries. Believe it or not, there are people for whom the acronym MFA is a Master of Fine Arts, and not one of the most comprehensive art collections in […]
IIM allows students to choose their own paths
Each year, about thirty to thirty-five percent of the incoming freshman class arrives at Brandeis undecided about their major. Over the next 2 years, the amount of undecided majors decreases as each explores and finds their path through one of Brandeis’ forty-nine majors – be it Economics, Classical Studies, Biology, or Music. However, a handful […]
24-hour Musical sloppy yet lovable
I find that the old adage, “Don’t judge a book by its cover,” generally holds true for arts criticism. Nevertheless, there are certain instances in which a cover-or in this case a playbill- provides a surprising degree of insight into a work’s actual content. If you attended the 24-hour Musical, Monty Python’s Spamalot directed by […]
Journey through no-man's land
Like many students at our fair university, I was transplanted to Brandeis from faraway climes without any real knowledge of the community in which our campus resides. Treading the well-worn paths from school to Moody Street, Cambridge, and Boston gave me a distorted mental picture of the neighborhood. So I don’t think I’ll do those […]
The thin line between fashion and politics
Some may be surprised by the Election theme of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week website. The page is scattered with buttons and signs typical of political campaigns, except rather than promote a political candidate, they tout fashion empowerment, with slogans such as “Fashion = Change” and “Accessorize for Democracy.” With a landmark election in U.S. history […]
Between the towers
“Why?” Possibly the most common question asked in human history encapsulated in one simple world. While watching Man on Wire it’s hard not to shake your head throughout the movie and continually ask the question “why,” marveling the stunning true story of Philippe Petit – the French tightrope artist who climbed and conquered the world […]
For Jennifer
For Jennifer Time sleeps in a test tube, coils silently under the noses of the sleep-deprived and weightless. Sophocles heard it skirting the boundaries of his doorways, closed his eyes, prayed for sight, and clicked his heels three times. Time holds a lot of rain, like a long-distance telephone call. Take care not to pick […]
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FICTION: The Museum's Survivor
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Students complain of increased laundry prices
Up by a quarter, the prices of using the washers and dryers, in dorms have been raised from .75 $1. Although it has been over 10 years since Brandeis last raised them, students still find the raise to be costly, inconvenient, and somewhat unfair. “[Doing laundry] considerably taxes on my financial resources,” said MaryCate Brower, […]
Volleyball: Errors, inconsistency doom Brandeis against Wellesley
After soaring to new heights following their tri-match victory in Cambridge over the weekend, the Judges plummeted back to earth as errors and sloppy play left them at the mercy of Wellesley 3-1 for their home opener. “We just didn’t play very well,” Brandeis Coach Michelle Kim said. “We practiced servicing the other day, but […]
Women’s Soccer: Matching 2-0 wins pad Judges’ perfect season
The Brandeis women’s soccer team knew they were better than the sixth place they received in the preseason UAA poll, but even they must be surprised at how smoothly the season has gone for them so far. Now four games into the season, the team has not only won every game they’ve played, they haven’t […]
Men’s Soccer loses physical match against Clark, rebounds with late goals vs. Babson
The Brandeis men’s soccer team suffered its first loss of the season on Saturday 2-1 against Clark University but rebounded on Wednesday with a 3-1 defeat of Babson. Brandeis and Clark were both undefeated heading into their match-up, Brandeis at 2-0-0 and Clark at 2-0-1. The hard-fought game was scoreless until the 15th minute, when […]
With Brady gone, Patriot fans turn to Matt Cassel
It has been 111 games since we last saw the New England Patriots start a game without Tom Brady as the starting quarterback. Following this past Sunday’s devastating injury to Brady, Patriots fans are going to get used to Brady’s replacement. This man is Matt Cassel. So let’s meet Matt Cassel. Perhaps Patriots fans will […]
Kicking AIDS to the sidelines
In a little high school in Massachusetts, Brooke Rosenbauer ’09 was showing a small group of students and their teacher a video depicting the impact of HIV/AIDS on the world. What had started out as a crowd of 15 high school students quickly turned into a room filled with more than 40 perspiring athletes and […]
The Art of Dorm Storming
The sounds of a first-year residence hall on a Monday evening: the tapping of laptop keys, the slow and reluctant flipping of an Economics book’s pages, the beeping of a printer as it comes to life. And then… chaos. Shouts, pounding on the doors, and upperclassmen screaming, “Free a-cappella in the stairwell! Free a-cappella!” Before […]
Civil Rights legends to unsung heroes
Tucked away on the third floor of the Goldfarb Library, Pamela Chatterson-Purdy’s exhibit, “Icons of the Civil Rights Movement,” lies in wait for students casually passing by. Seventeen gold-painted religious icons hang across the length of the corridor facing the stairs, each bearing the face and the story of one or more heroes of the […]
Dancing in the New York City streets
Let me start off by saying how thrilled I am that I can now add the words “professional dancer” to my resume. At the end of a not-so-thrilling summer, I was given the opportunity to audition for a dancing commercial that would be filmed in Manhattan over a period of three days. Given the fact […]
Liz Phair digs Boston
Men are evil. That is the message I expected to take away from my first Liz Phair concert experience after plunking down thirty bucks to see her perform at Boston’s Paradise Rock Club last Saturday night. After all, isn’t that simple notion the essence of feminism, the only true antidote to the oppressive patriarchy, the […]
