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Steve Nash ended his 19-year NBA playing career Saturday, announcing his retirement in a letter published by The Players’ Tribune website.
On Friday, students and alumni gathered outside University President Frederick Lawrence’s office to discuss the results of a recent meeting Lawrence held with students regarding the renewal of the University’s suspended partnership with Al-Quds University. The demonstration was organized by the leaders of the Brandeis University—Al-Quds University Student Dialogue Initiative.
On Sunday, Prof. Anita Hill (Heller) published an article in the Huffington Post stating that she will not be lecturing at the University of Illinois this semester after the escalation of an incident involving the school’s policy toward free speech.
There is a dichotomy between the mentalities of children versus adults when it comes to understanding “the Golden Rule” of treating others as one would like to be treated. A tenant of almost every major religion, the rule is so deeply ingrained that it can become a lens for all human relations. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the war on terror, where America has come into the forefront of world conflicts. What is first taken as a maxim, “the Golden Rule,” or ethic of reciprocity, teaches children how to live harmoniously with one another. However, this lighthearted connotation is transformed in adults, who use it to justify their egocentrism and the use of militant force. In the arena of politics, this has had drastic effects; child’s play has turned into a war for democracy.
This week, justArts spoke with Prof. Judith Eissenberg (MUS), the director of MusicUnitesUs, a program that brought Azerbaijani vocalist Fargana Qasimova to the University for an intercultural residency.
Promote civility in free speech
Academic and other responsible presses around the globe are struck with the following dilemma regarding important anti-Semitic tracts. On the one hand, such antisemitica are painful but crucial vehicles that keep a scholarly or general reading audience from merely dismissing antisemitica as an outmoded, irrational type of bygone foolishness which need not concern contemporary serious discussion or engagement. On the other, the publisher unintentionally risks breathing new life into texts and figures otherwise consigned to obscurity or general stigmatization. Of course, German anti-Semitic texts take on a special valence in terms of potential public appeal. There are several modern German writers whom I would deem to be be required reading for anyone student, or citizen, interested in grasping the power and logic of antisemitism: Johann Andreas Eisenmenger’s Judaism Unmasked (1700), Wilhelm Marr’s The Way to Victory of Germanicism over Judaism, 1879 (by the man who coined the term Antisemitismus), Richard Wagner’s “Judaism/Jewry in Music,” Paul de Lagarde’s “German Writings” (1878), Heinrich von Treitschke’s “A Word about Our Jews/Judaism (Judenthum)” (1880), Julius Langbahn’s Rembrandt as Teacher (1890), Houston Stewart Chamberlin’s The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899) and Alfred Rosenberg’s The Myth of the 20th Century (1930), just to name a few. As a professor at Brandeis, I am obligated to expose students to such texts and try to present their structure, presuppositions and worldviews, as well as their reception and legacies, in a way which forces us to confront and take seriously the manifold systematics of hatred towards Jews and Judaism. Literature and film of course expand such a course of study as well. Whenever I teach or write about these materials, I am always worried that the endeavor to engage these figures and texts in a serious way, some of my arguments and approaches may be utilized to bolster noxious forces of palpable hate and exclusionary violence.
This Thursday, the Student Union will be holding its annual presidential election, as well as a first round of elections for several other positions on its executive board. Voting will be open for 24 hours starting on Thursday.
Netflix has proven itself to be the next great place for entertainment. Whether through intense dramas such as House of Cards or smart yet poignant “comedies” such as Orange is the New Black (I say “comedy” because the Emmy Awards used to classify Orange is the New Black as such), Netflix’s original content has shaped the future of online television. Amazon has followed suit with recent Golden Globe winner Transparent, the story of a father coming out to his children as a transgender woman. However, despite original content, online streaming sites have quickly become the place for network successes and failures.
Travelling for 10 weeks through 10 countries on three continents may seem like a dream trip to some, but for Kevin Dupont ’16, it has become a reality. Dupont will be traveling this summer to research how social media influences and responds to social unrest.
The University Advisory Committee’s Subcommittee on Sexual Violence made their report on the University’s sexual violence policy available to the community via the Office of the Provost this month. The report was first released in June 2014, after 15 months of work. The committee added a supplementary addendum in Nov. 2014 as a response to the 2014-2015 Rights and Responsibilities handbook.
Barely 24 hours after I had returned home from Brandeis Admitted Student’s Day, the Boston Marathon bombing happened. As the story and subsequent manhunt unfolded, I followed the news not as a concerned American but as a concerned Brandeisian and perhaps Bostonian. This episode was the new association I had with my new identity as a Brandesian, as I feared for the safety of the place I had recently decided upon as my new home.
Focus, the latest Will Smith action film, may have pulled in $19.1 million in its opening weekend, but the film’s reception better represented by its 55 percent critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Focus will attract plenty of moviegoers to the theater due to its leading man and sexy tagline, but the film ultimately slows halfway through and fails to leave a positive impression on the viewer.
Last Friday, University President Frederick Lawrence announced his resignation. Lawrence will step down in June and depart for Yale University, where he will be a senior research scholar and a teacher. The president began his term nearly five years ago on Jan. 1, 2011. Notable events during his tenure include the reopening of the Rose Art Museum and the Linsey Pool , the cessation of the University’s partnership with Al-Quds University and the Ayaan Hirsi Ali honorary degree scandal. In a campus-wide email, Lawrence noted, “Applications have surged to an all-time high, our endowment had grown to its highest point ever, and we have made significant progress in balancing the University’s budget.” What qualities should the University consider when searching for the next President?
Two recent events brought Brandeis to the Boston Globe’s headlines: our online free-speech fallout and our president’s resignation. Not our stellar academics, our athletics teams, our artistic exploits or our tireless work for social justice. No, it is has been a resignation and a series of controversies which have come to haunt this University’s press coverage during President Lawrence’s tenure. Though I wouldn’t consider that either of these stories define our institutional identity, both should serve as a wake-up call for examining what we as students value in our University and how we can go about shaping its future. President Lawrence’s resignation is unfortunate for our campus, but we should capitalize on our current phase of transition to form a University and community that better reflects the values which unite us and take the opportunity to build more cooperative relationships with a new administration.
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is a campaign perpetrated by various non-governmental agencies against Israel supporting the Palestinian cause.
On Jan. 7, two gunmen, Chérif and Saïd Kouachi, attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical magazine, in response to their cartoons that depicted the Prophet Muhammad. The attacks killed 12, including the magazine’s editor and cartoonists and a police officer.
University President Frederick Lawrence announced Friday afternoon that he will be stepping down at the end of this academic year. He will take a full-time position at Yale Law School as a teacher and senior research scholar.
I am a senior at Brandeis University, grateful for the privilege to study in Waltham for three and a half years to date. At first, I was hesitant to join the Brandeis community—I never visited before arriving (late) for orientation my first year and did not bother attending most of the “mandatory” orientation programming.
This week, justArts spoke to Yasmin Yousof ’15, coordinator for the ’Deis Impact and Brandeis Immigration Education Initiative event “Dream Monologues,” about the performance on Friday.