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In light of Commencement, members of the Class of 2016 have the opportunity to look back at their college careers and their growth over the past four years. Reflecting on your time at Brandeis, what is the most important lesson you learned, and how do you think that lesson will help you in life?
Now that Commencement proceedings have drawn to a close, this board would like to extend its congratulations to the University’s accomplished Class of 2016. We would also like to recognize and honor the Justice’s recent graduates who have contributed so much to this paper.
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.
So, why doesn’t Brandeis have a football team? There’s probably a proper answer for that, but hey, who needs a varsity football team when you have the Adagio Dance Company? Last Thursday evening, the University’s largest student-run dance group hosted their spring show, “Undefeated,” in Levin Ballroom. The audience was restless and eager before the performance even began, and we weren’t left lacking for excitement. After all, as emcees Ray Trott ’16 and Dan Rozel ’16 reminded us throughout the night, “If dance were any easier, it would be called football!”
Students celebrate Holi, a Hindu spring festival that celebrates colors and love. The celebration took place on Chapels Field on Sunday and featured multi-colored powders.
“America’s typical teen-ager.” That’s the slogan that originally marketed Archie Andrews and his Riverdale gang to some of the comic series’ earliest readers. As film critic and scholar Gerald Peary pointed out in a lecture and screening on Wednesday, the “Archie” comics are singlehandedly the most successful non-superhero series available, focusing instead on the idyllic hometown life shared among attractive and squeaky-clean “friendly anti-intellectuals.”
In May of 2015, Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) and House representatives Mike Doyle (D-PA), Kevin Yoder (R-KS) and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) proposed the bipartisan Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act in Congress. Reported by committee in July of 2015, the goal of this legislation is to mandate public release of taxpayer-funded research. It would require that U.S. departments and agencies — which fund outside research through tax money — make results publicly available on the internet as soon as 12 months after they are published in a peer-reviewed journal. The FASTR bill promises to expand the public’s access to research, which would improve academic literacy and increase scientific engagement in nonacademic communities.
Recently, Brandeis’ Vagina Club put on its annual performance of “The Vagina Monologues,” an empowering play that shares the stories of different women’s experiences of womanhood through stories about their vaginas. The standout monologue “My Short Skirt,” performed by Gabriela Astaiza ’19 brought down the house with Astaiza’s proclamation that a short skirt is “not an invitation” and that a woman’s “short skirt” and “everything under it” is “mine, mine, mine.”
Despite the dark clouds and steady drizzle of rain, the children of the Lemberg Children’s Center played outside happily.
Belief in the potential of the younger generation causes the previous generation to shirk everything they know about financial reason and take on massive amounts of student loan debts, argued New York University professor Caitlin Zaloom in a lecture on Friday. The lecture, titled “American Oikos: Finance, Family, and the Student Loan Crisis,” was held as the eighth annual Robert Hunt Lecture in Economic Anthropology.
Last Tuesday, the Justice published a review of “The Wiz” which deeply hurt and upset many in our Brandeis community, and those reactions were expressed in comments online, through social media and through personal discourse. It is important to state that the responses to the article are not attacks on the writer of the review but rather attacks on racist and oppressive systems in which Black folk must operate. I am aware that many students were angry with the writer, but we must all understand that the anger is rooted in a system that continually erases and oppresses Black bodies on this campus. We are sure the writer had no intentions to inflict harm. However, that does not — and will never — negate the fact that harm has been done.
This week, justArts spoke with Rafi Diamond ’18, who directed the open-cast musical “Guys and Dolls.”
The lights in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater go off. The sound of the orchestra playing “A Bushel and a Peck” resonates throughout the theater. Jessica Plante ’16 walks onto the stage, “drunkenly” falls over and lies down while other characters walk on. Within the next few minutes, the entire cast has made its way across the stage, from the crapshooters wearing suspenders and hats to the Mission members docked head to toe in red.
This week, justArts spoke with Clayre Benzadon ’17, who has been organizing a series of poetry coffeehouses in Cholmondeley’s coffeehouse.
As the Republican primaries have raged on, Sean Davis, co-founder of the conservative publication The Federalist, has raised a provocative yet legitimate question: “If Trump were running to destroy the GOP/conservatism and pave a path to the White House for Hillary, what would he be doing differently?”
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.
A voice from the back of the theater emerged and Nyah Macklin ’16 walked down an aisle singing “Take Me to the Water,” by Nina Simone. Simultaneously, Brontë Velez ’16 danced down the center aisle, and the sound of a violin accompaniment came as Priya DeBerry ’17 walked down the opposite side. The audience remained transfixed, and eyes followed the trio as they made their way towards the stage.
“Va-gi-na.” With the curtains closed, the opening speech from the 2016 production of “The Vagina Monologues” addressed the issues with this particular word. Usually considered crass or inappropriate to say in public, the purpose of “The Vagina Monologues” is to de-stigmatize that word. In 1996, playwright Eve Ensler wrote a series of monologues based on interviews with real women talking about their vaginas. Some of these questions included “If your vagina got dressed, what would it wear?” and “If your vagina could talk, what would it say?”
Levin Ballroom was jam-packed last Tuesday night with students anxiously awaiting the start of the 16th annual Liquid Latex show. The Liquid Latex show is an extremely popular event that showcases groups of Brandeis students performing pieces on a variety of themes without any clothes on, covered only in latex body paint. The show this year was titled “Peace, Love and Latex.”