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Following Former University President Frederick Lawrence’s departure, Interim President Lisa Lynch did a great deal more than keep a seat warm for President-elect Ronald Liebowitz. In an email interview with the Justice, Lynch reflected on her numerous endeavors this year, from gauging the campus climate on race and sexual harassment to working to improve sustainability
An artist is nothing without his printmaker. Printmaking is unique in the art world. It relies largely on what master printmaker Dan Welden said is “a love for process” while other art forms, such as painting, rely on perfecting the piece. Welden stated that painting is “more direct from the heart to the canvas.”
Cholmondeley’s Coffee House was different on Sunday afternoon. The usual hotspot for live music and slam poetry was quiet with an easy calm; even the painted buzz of words on the walls seemed to succumb to the peace. Before the event even began, the Brandeis Pottery Club’s Japanese tea ceremony was a gentle respite from the hectic excitement of the Festival of the Arts.
“We are going to see the universe,” artist JJ PEET explained to the Justice on Friday night after he had successfully found a team of students with whom to complete his newest project “FIELD_WORK.”
Every shoe has a story.
Several professors were honored for their teaching in this month’s faculty meeting, which took place on Friday. These professors come from vastly varied backgrounds, from Prof. Claudia Novack (CHEM), who won the Louis D. Brandeis Award for Excellence in Teaching, to Prof. Jasmine Johnson (AAAS), who received the Michael Walzer ’56 Award for Teaching. Additionally, Prof. Sarah Lamb (ANTH) received the Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer and Joseph Neubauer prize for teaching and mentoring.
14 seats were filled in the second round of Student Union elections on April 4, according to an April 5 email from Student Union Secretary Shuying Liu ’16.
Last Tuesday saw the arrival of ’DeisTalks, a TED Talks-style discussion on various topics with speakers from both within the University community and outside of it. The event, hosted by the Education for Students by Students Board, sought to shed light on different topics, such as anxiety and the myth of the “model minority” which are not often discussed in public discourse.
The Senate convened for its weekly meeting on Sunday to recognize a club, pass a Senate Money Request for the Midnight Buffet and discuss amendment changes with the Union Judiciary.
B’yachad, Brandeis’ Israeli folk dance troupe, held its annual show in Levin Ballroom on Thursday. The title of this year’s show was “Rikudiat B’yachad.” Choreographer Lianne Gross ’16 said in an interview with the Justice, “Rikudiat means ‘dances of,’ but it’s kind of a made up word. It comes from [the Hebrew word] ‘rikudia,’ which camps and Hebrew schools use to mean ‘celebration of dance,’ and we just conjugated it to make it grammatically correct with the name ‘B’yachad.’” “B’yachad” is the Hebrew word for together. Putting that together, the title of this year’s show can be loosely translated to mean “a celebration of dancing together.” This really typifies Israeli folk dance — a kind of dance that focuses not on a single dancer but on the group as a whole.
Each student in her class was asked to produce a sculpture made from a book. In a spurt of inspiration, Brontë Velez ’16 decided to cut a hole through her book’s pages and fill it with soil and a dead bouquet of flowers.
Last Wednesday, many gathered in the Wasserman Cinematheque, where the History department and the Film, Television and Interactive Media program co-hosted the North-American film premiere of “Verdun, They Won’t Pass.” The film is a historical documentary created by Serge de Sampigny, a French filmmaker who has written and produced three historical documentaries previously. Prof. Paul Jankowski (HIST), whose work deals primarily with the history of modern war, was the contributing historian for the documentary.
In an email to the student body last Friday, Interim University President Lisa Lynch announced a 3.9 percent increase in comprehensive undergraduate charges for the 2016 to 2017 academic year. This increase was approved by the Board of Trustees on Thursday to allow the University to maintain its “commitment to providing you [the students] with an education of the highest quality” and to “sustain the financial aid that makes Brandeis accessible to students across the socioeconomic spectrum,” according to the email.
Julieanna Richardson ’76 will deliver this year’s commencement address on May 22. Graduating members of the Class of 2016 will hear from Richardson — founder of The HistoryMakers, a video archive of the oral histories of African-Americans — who will also accept an honorary degree from the University alongside physicist and engineer Mildred Dresselhaus; historic-preservationist, attorney and grandson of Louis D. Brandeis Frank Brandeis Gilbert; filmmaker Agnieszka Holland; and artist Jack Whitten.
A Grateful Dead poster and a slew of polaroids decorate the wall. Sounds like an average student’s dorm room, right? Wrong. The backdrop of Brandeis Players’ production of “This Is Our Youth,” written by Kenneth Lonergan in 1996, is an Upper West Side New York City apartment inhabited by Dennis (Matt Hoisch ’19) and frequented by his friend Warren (Rodrigo Alfaro Garcia Granados ’18) in the early 1980s.
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Despite what the op-ed pages of the New York Times might have one believe, there really is no unified theory of Trump — an overriding explanation for his entrance into public life last summer and, ever since, his utter domination of the Republican presidential race.
Last Friday, Goldfarb Library hosted its third annual Edible Book Festival, in which students and faculty from the Brandeis community were invited to combine cooking ingredients with words in order to create their own edible bestsellers.
Josh Gondelman ’07 is many things: a stand-up comic, a writer for “Last Week Tonight” with John Oliver, the co-author of the widely popular @SeinfeldToday Twitter account, a former preschool teacher and a Brandeis alumnus.
Faculty members and administrators will undergo diversity training in April and May, respectively, in accordance with Interim University President Lisa Lynch’s Feb. 24 email providing updates on the University’s diversity and inclusion efforts.