‘House of Cards’ season three fails to live up to hype
Spoiler disclaimer: If you haven’t watched the third season of Netflix’s series “House of Cards” and are planning to, you probably shouldn’t read further. This review comes from the perspective of two fans of the show who binge-watched all 13 episodes of the season in a row the same day of release. Food and drink […]
Jennie C. Jones displays work narratives of black musicians
On Friday, Feb. 27, artist Jennie C. Jones came to speak at the Rose Art Museum as part of the “Art | Blackness | Diaspora Project.” Her paintings mostly speak as if they were telling a history through the lens of a photograph, drawing attention to the work narratives of black musicians, with her works […]
Brandeis struggles with sustainability
In the past year, Brandeis University has fallen behind on its commitment to becoming a sustainable campus. In 2012, Brandeis lost a staff member who worked full-time as a sustainability coordinator. While the position was filled for a time with an interim staff member, after her tenure, Brandeis did not rehire someone to fill the […]
COMIC: Make It Work
JBS and English department collaborate to create new course
The Justice Brandeis Semester program is an academic staple at Brandeis; however, its curriculum is ever-changing to incorporate all ranges of experiential discovery. This year, the English Department has collaborated with JBS programs to offer “Storytelling as Social Practice,” a conglomeration of three courses designed to fuse the social aspects of storytelling with narrative textual […]
The bitter reality of coffee
Not everyone likes coffee, but those who do need it more than almost anything else. Those ubiquitous coffee lovers haven’t always needed coffee, though. For most people, sometime in high school or even in college, coffee becomes a necessity, a type of chemical dependency similar to, though less serious than, other drug addictions. I don’t […]
Social justice employers reach out at industry night
The Hassenfeld Conference Center was filled with students and industry representatives on Tuesday night, March 3 for the Hiatt Career Center’s Brandeis Industry Night: SoJust. The event, cosponsored by the Heller School, began with a case challenge, which gave students an opportunity to develop solutions and present them to a panel of industry representatives. Represented […]
Library contains many historical treasures
The impressive contents of the Brandeis library remain unknown to most students. We see the library as a quiet place to work, socialize and occasionally pick up a few books for an assignment. We are largely unaware that we have access to fascinating documents such as an original work by Thomas Aquinas, “Buffalo Bill” dime […]
French Business and Lifestyle Club takes shape
Wednesday, March 4’s Top Chef event, hosted by the French Business and Lifestyle Club, was the debut event for the newly formed campus group and designed to attract both those who are already interested in French culture and those who are unfamiliar with it. French chef and entrepreneur Etienne Jaulin came to Brandeis to give […]
Rosenberger reflects before five-year IGS program review
If one were to ask what got Professor Chandler Rosenberger (IGS/LGLS/SOC) interested in international frameworks, he would blame a lot of it on Harrison Ford. “Indiana Jones. When I was a kid, watching Harrison Ford running around the world and leading this adventurous life got the 10 year old in me excited. The most interesting […]
