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A man and a woman, the man holding his chest while on his knees. A large, white, Venetian-style bridge. Three stained glass panels depict a heart, scales and coins. These are the three images that greeted the audience of Hold Thy Peace’s fall production of “The Merchant of Venice: A Reimagining” over the past weekend. Directed by Laurel Kane ’26, this production took one of Shakespeare’s most infamous comedies and transformed it into a powerful piece of dramatic theater that left audiences in awe.
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On Nov. 10, the Brandeis Counseling Center sent an email encouraging students to fill out the Healthy Minds Survey, conducted by the Healthy Minds Network. The study collects information about adolescent mental health with the intended goal of helping colleges and universities better understand how they can support student well-being on their campus. “Healthy Minds Network” operates out of the University of Michigan and works with institutions across the nation to collect information about both student mental health on individual campuses and on a nationwide scale. According to the Healthy Minds Network’s website, the group works to treat mental health as an issue of public health using a three-pronged approach. This includes collecting research, disseminating information and putting knowledge into practice. Over the course of 15 years, the organization has collected over 935,000 student responses.
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CONTENT WARNING: mention of rape
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With course registration on the horizon, I wanted to give a few tips, tricks and recommendations I’ve collected during my time at Brandeis. For more specific advice, you should meet with your academic advisor and consult your department head to make sure you stay on track to complete your major.
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Dating apps have come a long way since the now-archaic computerized dating services that first rose to prominence in the 1960s. Since then, decades of digital advancements and software innovations have refined dating apps with highly efficient features designed to match the user to others based on specific dating preferences and common interests, creating a vast pool of people to choose from. However, the ubiquity of apps like Tinder, Hinge and Grindr, begs the question — are dating apps truly a good way to find a partner? With almost 50% of college students reporting using them, as of 2023, these apps boast convenience and speedy match-making, yet a laundry list of cons, risks and flaws are entailed in their usage. The spaces created by these apps can seem confusing and contradictory, with great disparity between intention and outcome creating insecurity and harm where the apps promise success.
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Since August 2025, artist Danielle Joy Mckinney has been the Rose Art Museum’s artist in residence. Her exhibit “Tell Me More” will be touring until January 2026, and the Rose is Mckinney’s first ever solo museum exhibit, featuring 13 of her pieces with two being exclusive to just the Rose Art Museum.
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When Mona Houjazy ’26 steps into the Aging, Culture, and Cognition Lab each week, she is thinking about what most of us take for granted — how we see, and how those sights remain in our memory. A neuroscience, psychology and biology major, Houjazy is investigating how subtle visual details such as sharpness and brightness affect short-term memory.
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Protecting the Global Fund and PEPFAR
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The 2025 government shutdown is now officially the longest in U.S. history, having reached 36 days on Wednesday, Nov. 5 — and there is no clear end in sight, as disagreements over allocations of government funding remain firmly gridlocked. The shutdown has innumerable consequences, not only to the daily functioning of the government but also to the wellbeing of U.S. residents. One such consequence is the potential budget cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which helps to provide food for low-income families and individuals. With nearly 41 million people in the United States dependent on SNAP for sufficient access to food, it is a major concern that this program may be impacted by the shutdown.
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Like many other schools in the Greater Boston area, Brandeis offers a free shuttle service directly into the city Friday through Sunday. However, students who are looking to go into Boston during the week are forced to take the commuter rail train, drive or Uber to wherever they’re trying to go. For most, these means of transportation are costly and inconvenient.
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In a small classroom on a Thursday evening, a group of students gathers around a table to discuss James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues.” Among them are probation officers, district court judges and people rebuilding their lives after incarceration. They are part of a class called “Changing Lives Through Literature” taught by Prof. Sherman (ENG). It’s one of several programs under the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative (BEJI), where faculty and graduate students bring higher education beyond campus walls and into correctional and reentry spaces across the Boston area.
(11/04/25 11:00am)
The 2025 Mexico City Grand Prix wrapped up this past Sunday with Lando Norris taking another victory for McLaren. Starting from pole position, Norris led almost every lap to receive his fifth win of the season and reclaim the championship lead from teammate Oscar Piastri.
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As we enter Week 9 of the National Football League season, conversations are heating up about who will succeed in becoming Super Bowl Champions. Before the season started, some of the favorites to go the distance included the reigning Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs, the Super Bowl runner-ups. However, some of the teams leading the standings right now have shocked the league based on performances in the past few seasons.
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Since sports talk shows have become a greater part of sports media, debates comparing various players throughout a sport’s history have become more pertinent. A main draw of sports talk shows is hearing bigger personalities, such as Stephen A. Smith or Shannon Sharpe, make broad claims. Who is the best? Who is the greatest? It's a deceptively simple question that fuels endless arguments across every sport, and yet after decades of debate, no clear answer has emerged. Why? Because fans keep conflating two words that aren't the same. Best and greatest are not synonyms. Nevertheless, if you turn on your TV you will hear sports analysts give a passionate soliloquy interchanging the words. The two words may sound similar but they measure totally different things: one is about peak dominance and the other is about lasting impact.
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The 2025 MLB season wrapped up on Saturday with the Los Angeles Dodgers winning their second consecutive World Series. The Dodgers fought past the Toronto Blue Jays in seven incredibly intense games that featured a total of 10 extra innings, 19 home runs and several controversial calls.
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On Wednesday, Oct. 29, University President Arthur Levine ’70 spoke to a crowd of undergraduates about the Brandeis Plan to Reinvent the Liberal Arts. He touched on the plan’s three major facets: reorganizing the graduate and undergraduate schools, remaking the core curriculum and creating a Center for Careers and Applied Liberal Arts. The event took place in Rapaporte Treasure Hall and featured small presentations from Levine, as well as members of the faculty and administration involved with the project.
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On Friday, Oct. 31 the University held a groundbreaking ceremony for the new residence hall, set to be ready for use by either the summer or fall of 2027. Though construction on the site began in late June of this year, speakers noted the importance of acknowledging this new chapter and how this new living space will be beneficial for future Brandeis students.
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If you’ve spotted a wagging tail and a pair of eager eyes patrolling campus lately, you’ve already met Justice, Brandeis University Police’s newest and arguably most beloved team member. Justice isn’t your typical officer, she’s a comfort K9 with the Brandeis Police Department, here to spread a little joy wherever her paws take her. The idea for introducing a comfort dog to campus came from Chief Matthew Rushton, who recognized the growing importance of emotional support programs in law enforcement and higher education. “Seeing the success of similar programs at other universities and police departments, it was kind of a no-brainer. The chief saw how effective comfort dogs could be in creating connections and reducing stress, and from there, everything just fell into place” explained Officer Dave Thompson, Justice’s handler in an Oct. 30 interview with The Justice.
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On Oct. 31, Professor Ramie Targoff (ENG) delivered a lecture titled“A Master Class in Witchcraft: The Real Women Behind Macbeth’s Weird Sisters.”
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In an Oct. 31 email to the Brandeis community, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Carol Fierke Ph.D. ’84, and Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration, Stewart Uretsky, announced that Google account storage limit quotas will increase.
