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MONTHLY MISSION: Cafe Science occurs on the first Monday of every month to engage the community in lively conversation about cutting-edge research by Brandeis scientists at Solea Restaurant and Tapas Bar on Moody Street.
The Islamic State released a video on Tuesday, Feb. 3 showing a caged man being burned alive. Jordanian officials have confirmed that the man was Moaz al Kasasbeh, a pilot in the Jordanian Royal Air Force whose plane was shot down on Dec. 24. He has been held captive since then by the Islamic State.
The women’s fencing team fought its way to a 3-2 record in Teaneck, New Jersey at the Farleigh Dickinson University Invitational this past Sunday. The Judges started off their day with a defeat to the 10th-ranked Temple University, with saber Ashley Jean ’17 notching two of Brandeis’ five wins in the match. She finished the day with an overall record of 12-2.
This year’s Eric Sollee Invitational tournament took place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as both the men and women’s fencing teams posted impressive records of 5-1 at the meet.
By most accounts, this was a slow week in the news. After the excitement of President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, the headlines mostly turned to analyses of the speech, continued coverage of the Charlie Hebdo terror attack and its international response and a national scandal over whether or not—shock and horror!—a football was slightly deflated at an important Patriots game. This story has huge consequences for the football community, but for those of us who couldn’t care less one way or the other about sports, it was a rather ho-hum time to be browsing Google News. The front page stories of Sunday’s New York Times, for example, focused on tax policy shifts being proposed by eight Republicans, an exploration of the Vatican’s current stance on divorce, new evidence in a 50-year-old murder case and something headlined "North Korea’s Forbidden Love? Smuggled, Illegal Soap Operas."
FA 79A: “Modernism Elsewhere,” taught by Prof. Talinn Grigor (FA)
Due to a lack of cable and spare time, my budget for new television shows is relatively slim. However, I did find time to check out NBC’s newest comedy Bad Judge starring Kate Walsh as Rebecca Wright, a discombobulated and questionable criminal court judge. I am drawn to the show because Wright doesn’t care about the system or expectations—she does whatever she wants while still serving as an excellent judge. Her antics are amusing and liberating—the show proves that just because she does not behave like your stereotypical judge, does not mean she is bad at her job.
The men’s basketball team notched its first two victories of the season last week, taking the consolation game of the New England Big 4 Challenge on Sunday afternoon and defeating Framingham State University last Thursday. The Judges sit at 2-5 overall with the pair of wins.
On Tuesday morning, two Palestinian men stormed an Orthodox synagogue in Jerusalem with guns and meat cleavers, killing three rabbis and one scholar, including three Americans and one man from the United Kingdom. The attackers were killed at the scene by police officers, but not before eight other people were injured, one of whom has since died from the injuries. This attack is yet another example of the escalating violence of the past month, with some labeling these attacks as the beginning of a Third Intifada. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to “respond harshly” to the events on Tuesday, including demolishing the attacker’s homes. How do you react to the events in Jerusalem, and what effect do you see foresee from the recent spike in violence?
Tucked away in the corner of the stage sat a plain brown desk. With the houselights up, an actor in a dark brown suit calmly wrote at the desk as the audience filtered in. People slowly took stock of his presence, but the actor kept his eyes trained on his writing and did not acknowledge the audience. As the house lights dimmed, the play began; the man at the desk (Jose Castellanos ’18) introduced himself as the narrator and established the structure of the play.
Many people associate musicals with random dance numbers, toned-down dialogue and happily-ever-afters. Brandeis’ latest musical challenges this assumption, touching on sensitive issues like sex education and abortion overs its two acts. Tympanium Euphorium’s production of Spring Awakening debuted on Thursday evening in the Carl J. Shapiro Theater. The show was directed by Rachel Liff ’16 and stage-managed by Rachel Josselsohn ’17. It focused on two German teenagers, Melchior Gabor (Jason Theoharis ’17) and Wendla Bergmann (Sarah Steiker ’17), who break the rules of their restrictive society. The show’s program bills it as a play about “everything we don’t talk about,” which is pretty accurate. Featuring sex, abortion and corruption, the play highlighted the darker parts of German society in the late 1890s. The production appeared to be cognizant of this fact and included a resource guide for sexual assault survivors and bystanders in its playbill.
On Nov. 3, Noam Bedein from the Sderot Media Center visited Brandeis to discuss his work in the publicizing of the continued missile strikes on Sderot, Israel. In an event hosted by the Brandeis Israel Public Affairs Committee, Bedein discussed the traumas, tragedies and perseverance of the Israeli citizens living in Sderot, which is just one kilometer away from the Gaza border. It is in pre-1967 Israel, the part of the country that is not disputed in any landswap discussions. The Sderot Media Center’s objective is to educate the global community about the city—“the bomb shelter capital of the world” in Bedein’s words—through media outreach and seminars.
The men’s and women’s fencing teams took home six medals at the New England Fall Collegiate Championships, their first met of the season. The men’s sabre squad held three of the four semifinals berths in the competition—known as “The Big One”—and saw Adam Mandel ’15 win the meet for the second year in a row.
As attention has been building around campus protests and recent cases that have put the spotlight on University policies and practices, Brandeis has worked to improve its grievance process, has hired a sexual assault and prevention specialist and is in the process of finalizing its rape crisis center. These changes, however, have been implemented after almost 30 years of advocacy on behalf of students, staff and faculty for better policies, procedures and resources.
It was July 2014 in the North End of Boston when Ohad Elhelo ’16 received devastating news from his home country of Israel. During a secretive mission part of a military operation called Operation Protective Edge, 13 soldiers and officers from his former unit in the Israel Defense Forces died in an explosion on a road planted with mines.
The United States Open, the annual end-of-summer tennis tournament in Flushing, New York, had not produced a first-time winner since 2009.
To wrap up the summer and usher in the fall, the City of Boston, in collaboration with the State Street Corporation, produced the eleventh annual Boston Arts Festival—more simply known as “ähts.” The festival took over at the Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park, near Boston’s North End, on Saturday, Aug. 30 and Sunday, Aug. 31.
Every sovereign nation has not only the right but also the obligation to defend its citizens. Israel, a sovereign state, invoked this right and obligation in July with Operation Protective Edge, a defensive military campaign with the goal of protecting Israelis who have been pounded by a barrage of rockets fired by the terrorist group Hamas which resides in Gaza and has members propagated all around the Middle East.
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I recently stumbled across an article from The Princeton Tory (republished in Time Magazine) called “Why I’ll Never Apologize for My White Male Privilege,” written by Princeton University freshman student Tal Fortgang. In it, Fortgang vehemently protests the idea that all of his success in life (including his admission to Princeton) can be credited to his race or sex, and offers instead that to call someone privileged “[assumes] they’ve benefitted from ‘power systems’ or other conspiratorial imaginary institutions [and] denies them credit for all they’ve done.”