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Steven Simon, a National Security Council director for the Middle East and North Africa during the Clinton and Obama administrations, gave a lecture called “The US and the Middle East in the Age of Trump” on Wednesday. In this lecture, Simon argued that President Donald Trump’s policy toward the Middle East reflects a deeper trend of disengagement that began under President Obama.
If you are looking for a fun vacation, there is no need to hop on SkyScanner — the Vietnamese Student Association has you covered. On Friday Oct. 24, the VSA hosted “Saigon after Midnight.”
Every year, the Brandeis Latinx Student Organization holds their cultural show performance, Incendio, to showcase Latinx artists and activists who strive to bring attention and change to the issues impacting their community. The theme this year was “Golden Touch,” honoring the important works of individual members within Latinx culture. BLSO continues to be a significant part of the Brandeis community and their events help to engage and interact with students to learn and appreciate the Latinx culture and traditions.
This week, the Justice spoke with Irma Reyes Aragon ’21, the president of Brandeis Latinx Student Organization, about their multi-part FuturX event on Oct. 19.
Quick question: Do you like Saturday Night Live? How about thought provoking conversations? If both of these things are your forte, you might like “Love and Information.” Sponsored by the Brandeis Department of Theater Arts, “Love and Information” is a play that captures different human experiences, ranging from euphoria to despair to melancholy. A play written by British Playwright Caryl Churchill, the show, which ran Oct. 18-20 in the Laurie Theater, featured a cast of nine students and was directed by Brandeis alumnus Caley Chase ’16.
When rain started pouring on Brandeis on Oct. 11, it drenched the hundreds of rainbow flags that decorated campus. It was National Coming Out Day, memorialized at Brandeis by “Pride Deis,” a daylong event for LGBTQ+ community at Brandeis to celebrate and be celebrated.
The Taiwanese Student Association presented the Night Market 2019 on the night of Oct. 12 in Levin Ballroom. The activity featured 10 other Intercultural Center Clubs and brought around 950 people, according to TSA, to enjoy cuisines from around the world.
HOMEWARD BOUND: When she was 10, Christina moved from New Jersey back to her parent’s homeland in South Korea, before moving back to the United States to attend Brandeis. She spoke about the challenges and triumphs of creating her identity across both continents.
University alumnus Abbie Hoffman ’59 was a radical social activist, political organizer, drug dealer, conspiracist, rioter, author, FBI suspect and 1960s counterculture icon. Additionally, he was the first male cheerleader on the Brandeis cheerleading team, a fact only recently brought to light in a series of audio recordings that were donated to the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections by documentarian Keith Armonaitis.
On the heels of stellar reviews for his supporting turn as Cliff Booth in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Brad Pitt has come back to the silver screen for the second time this year in James Gray’s “Ad Astra.” The science fiction drama follows Roy McBride, an astronaut tasked with uncovering the cause of catastrophic power outages on Earth known as Surges. The catch: those sending Roy on the mission believe that the cause of the Surges has something to do with his father, Clifford (Tommy Lee Jones), who went missing on an interstellar mission around Neptune years earlier. And believe the hype; Pitt’s lead performance in this film tops off a return to form for Pitt in the acting department, after he has spent the past few years behind the camera as a producer. That paired with Gray’s patient and introspective direction and beautiful cinematography from the always-reliable Hoyte van Hoytema make for a unique trip into the stratosphere.
Have you ever walked through the Olin-Sang American Civilization Center and the Mandel Center for the Humanities and heard music carrying through the halls? It could be coming from your own AirPods, or it could be a concert in the “Music at Mandel” series — free concerts for the Brandeis community that occur seven times each school year.
United States basketball. The phrase brings imagery of some of the most amazing collections of talent the world has ever seen. Amazing teams such as the Dream Team of 1992, where Magic Johnson came out of retirement to join arguably the greatest collection of talent ever assembled with Team USA basketball looking forward with 11 of 12 players and three of the four coaches eventually being added to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. The redeem team of 2008 where Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul dominated every match en route to a “competitive” 11 point win against Spain — their closest game all tournament — earned redemption for their previous bronze medal finish.
The International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life has chosen disability rights activist Rebecca Cokley as the Richman Distinguished Fellow in Public Life for the year 2020. Funded by the Richman and Saivetz families, this fellowship — including a $25,000 award — is presented annually to an individual whose work in public service has significantly impacted society through advocating for social justice.
Every summer, the University selects a book for incoming students to read and then participate in a discussion with the author(s) of that book. In past years, this conversation was only open to the first-year students arriving on campus in the fall, because the event was held before upperclassmen arrived on campus for the fall semester. As a result, the author would only come during what is now known as ’Deis Week.
Over the summer, the University transitioned to Workday, a portal that functions as a one-stop shop for students and other campus employees to log work hours, maintain a record of their financial transactions, view paychecks and have a seamless space for working multiple jobs. It can also be useful when requesting an absence, accessing work benefits and finding a job on campus. This board commends the University for its use of Workday and its attempt to provide employees and community members with a safe, reliable and easy-to-use interface for all things concerning on-campus jobs. However, Workday is plagued with numerous quality-of-life issues that make its use difficult and cumbersome to adjust to, especially for students who do not necessarily have time to devote to learning the nuances of the program.
With a 90 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and 7.9 out of ten on IMDB, “Spider-Man: Far From Home” swung into theaters on July 2. This is the fifth movie starring Tom Holland as Spider-Man since Disney struck up a deal to allow the Sony-owned character to become part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In this deal, Marvel Studios gained the rights to put Spider-Man in the “Avengers” franchise, if “Marvel won’t receive a cut of the box office for any of Sony’s films that feature Spider-Man. Sony won’t receive a percentage of the revenue Disney makes from Marvel’s films that have Spider-Man, either,” explained a 2015 Variety article.
As classes and a new academic year began, soccer, too, was in the air. The Brandeis men’s soccer team began their season with a split of their first two games — they won their first match on opening day against Roger Williams University, but suffered a loss that day against Washington and Lee University. The two games were hard fought and close throughout, with each game being decided by a single goal.
The photographs and names of nearly a dozen current and former Brandeis students, faculty and staff were disseminated on a white supremacist forum, according to a statement Public Safety sent to the Brandeis Community via email on Aug. 19. Director of Public Safety Ed Callahan wrote that the posts posed “no direct threat to these individuals or to Brandeis.”