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On Sunday night in the Slosberg Music Center, the Brandeis Improvisation Collective’s fall concert made people tap their feet, nod their heads and laugh to the music.
A young woman sits at a piano while her mother rapidly types the words she sings. It seems like the set-up of a sweet domestic scene, but it is anything but. That was the general theme of “The Contest,” Hillel Theater Group’s fall semester show, which was put on in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater this past weekend.
The women’s basketball team captured the Brandeis Tip-Off Tournament, presented by the Park Lodge Hotel Group, to help head coach Carol Simon earn her 400th career victory. To win the title, the Judges defeated Eastern Nazarene College 70-54 on Saturday afternoon and was victorious by a score 81-38 over Mount Holyoke College. The title was the team’s third in four years.
Over 200 adjunct and contract faculty members have signed an official petition to form a union, which was submitted to the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday. The 230 faculty members are seeking to join the Service Employees International Union Local 509 through their Faculty Forward division, which represents non-tenure track faculty at colleges and universities throughout the Boston area.
Kim Conaty, the assistant curator of drawings and prints at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, was appointed curator for the Rose Art Museum on Nov. 3. Conaty will plan exhibitions, interpret the Rose’s collection and evaluate potential exhibitions for the museum, when she joins the Rose’s staff in December.
On Thursday, Brandeis’s South Eastern Asian Club and the United Against Inequities in Disease Chapter at Brandeis discussed how mental illness is stigmatized in Southeast Asian families, at an event that was titled “Conflicts in Southeast Asia.”
In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s Nov. 4 assassination, three Brandeis scholars lectured on and later discussed his legacy as a peacemaker.
Professors and administrators raised concerns with the ongoing faculty unionization movement at Friday’s faculty meeting. Other topics included the results of the sexual assault climate survey and campus sustainability initiatives.
A fully packed room in Mandel 303 on Thursday evening saw a dramatic one-woman performance and a featured talk back with actress Nancy E. Carroll and Prof.Shulamit Reinharz (SOC). Carroll read a translated adaptation of Savyon Liebrecht’s play, “The Strawberry Girl.”
Henry and Lois Foster Director of the Rose Art Museum Christopher Bedford announced on Friday that collector, businessman and author Stephen M. Salny has promised to donate 48 works to the museum.
JOINING THE ROSE: Kim Conaty has been appointed as the Curator of the Rose Art Museum. She plans to pursue education initiatives and a collection evaluation.
Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” was performed in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater this past weekend, put on by Brandeis’s Shakespeare and classical theatre company Hold Thy Peace. It was set in modern Boston and western Massachusetts rather than in medieval France. The production gave a comedic, if somewhat confusing performance.
On Thursday, Scott Silver ’84, Managing Director at Citigroup, Head of FX Investor and Cross Asset Sales in North America and the FXLM Quantitative Investment Strategy Team, gave advice to business students on how to do well while working in the business industry.
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson, a former neurosurgeon and 2016 candidate for president of the United States, caused an uproar recently when he claimed that gun control measures played a major role in the extermination of six million Jews during the Holocaust.
“Are you a suffragette, Mrs. Edith?”
Why is Russia intervening in Syria? After the backlash Russia faced due to its actions in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea, one would think that getting involved in another major crisis would be far down on the agenda. The war effort in Syria puts further strains on a Russian economy that is already in recession due to low energy prices and Western sanctions. Lives of Russian soldiers are jeopardized, and political tensions between Russia and the West will likely only be aggravated.
On Saturday the men and women’s cross country teams turned in strong showings at the Open New England Championships in Franklin Park, located in downtown Boston, competing against runners from across all three NCAA Divisions.
On Thursday, the Senate met to swear in new members and discuss the Student Union code of conduct for senators.
Last Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the country would continue its support of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime with military assistance. The call came amid concerns of Moscow’s continued involvement in Syria with Putin expressing, “We support the government in Syria in its effort to counter terrorist aggression.” According to U.S. officials, the Russian military has deployed half a dozen airfield tanks outside the city of Latakia, which suggests a move to support the crumbling military forces, according to a Sept. 15 Wall Street Journal article. The U.S. and Russia may have similar interests in the region, both having a stake in the fight against the Islamic State. Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman expressed, “We welcome Russia participating in the global anti-ISIL efforts, but to do that via the Assad regime is unhelpful and potentially destabilizing.” Do you support Russian involvement in Syria, and do you believe in a joint coalition between the West and Russia to combat the Islamic State?
Sometimes, events outside the bubble of the college world demand not only our attention, but also a fundamental reckoning of our position and privilege.