Jewish and German students participate in discussion on Holocaust
Students from Germany and Jewish students held an evening panel discussion and Q&A surrounding facilitating discussion of the Holocaust with Germans and Jews. The March 6 panel, sponsored by the German and European Studies Department, was introduced by the director of the department and led by Brandeis alum Benyamin Meschede-Krasa ’17, whose mother is German […]
Editor gives tips on publishing a book
Those unsure how to proceed after writing a dissertation came to a question and answer session with Kate Wahl, publishing director and editor-in-chief of Stanford University Press, who discussed the publishing process from the perspective of an editor. Wahl began by describing the overall process of publishing a book and some general tips on getting […]
DCL aims to make the housing selection process transparent
The Department of Community Living (DCL) invited the Student Union Executive board and representatives from The Brandeis Hoot and the Justice to witness the housing selection randomization process on Wednesday afternoon. This is the second year DCL has invited students to view the housing lottery process in an effort to be more transparent and quell […]
Art project reflects on educational journeys
It is never easy to combine the natural sciences with the fine arts. Some would even wonder what that intersection would look like. To Sarah Valente (GRAD), it is a matter of looking beyond just the medium of art and the subject of a piece, and seeing the societal and cultural impact that comes with […]
BAASA’s ‘Dare to Dream’ celebrates Asian American identity
Culture, family and identity were resonant themes that repeated throughout the Brandeis Asian American Student Association’s (BAASA) Asian Pacific American Heritage Month opener. The event, called “Dare to Dream,” provided a space where identity could be celebrated and experiences shared by a supportive community. The show began and ended with soulful solo musical performances. Both […]
An economic education, please?
According to the Council for Economic Education’s annual Survey, only 22 states in the U.S. require that students at public high schools take an economics class before they graduate. Global statistics are hard to find, but the case is fairly similar in all other countries we looked into. Fornagiel: As a STEM major who was […]
‘Much Ado’ adds something new
Hold Thy Peace’s (HTP) recent production of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” added a new spin on the classic comedy. While the plot of the play was maintained, the setting changed from Messina, Sicily to a high school straight out of a ’90s romantic comedy. In the spirit of Shakespeare adaptations like Ten Things I […]
Unstuck from time and self, ‘Transit’ demands your attention
There’s an espresso machine in the first shot of “Transit.” It’s not an especially fancy espresso machine, an average appliance you’d expect in any modern café. But protagonist Georg (Franz Ragowski) isn’t having coffee in the present—“Transit,” we soon learn, is set at an undetermined point during the height of the Nazi occupation of France. […]
