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(04/12/16 5:40am)
B’yachad, Brandeis’ Israeli folk dance troupe, held its annual show in Levin Ballroom on Thursday. The title of this year’s show was “Rikudiat B’yachad.” Choreographer Lianne Gross ’16 said in an interview with the Justice, “Rikudiat means ‘dances of,’ but it’s kind of a made up word. It comes from [the Hebrew word] ‘rikudia,’ which camps and Hebrew schools use to mean ‘celebration of dance,’ and we just conjugated it to make it grammatically correct with the name ‘B’yachad.’” “B’yachad” is the Hebrew word for together. Putting that together, the title of this year’s show can be loosely translated to mean “a celebration of dancing together.” This really typifies Israeli folk dance — a kind of dance that focuses not on a single dancer but on the group as a whole.
(04/05/16 7:25am)
As part of their ongoing divestment campaign, Brandeis Climate Justice led a rally on Wednesday to coincide with a meeting between Board of Trustees members and individuals from the University’s environmental interest groups. While walking to his next meeting, one trustee addressed the protesters, who were urging the Board to divest the University’s endowment from fossil fuel corporations.
(04/05/16 5:46am)
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(03/29/16 6:53am)
Brandeis Students for Justice in Palestine hosted its annual Israeli Apartheid Week from Monday through Thursday last week but encountered several instances where their posters and banners were taken down across campus. A small group of students who oppose the apartheid narrative about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict also created a banner which hung across from an SJP banner near the Rabb Steps. The pro-Israel banner is still hung on the Rabb Steps as of Monday night, while the SJP banner has disappeared.
(03/29/16 5:53am)
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.
(03/29/16 3:15pm)
“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?”
(03/29/16 5:21am)
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.”
(03/29/16 12:51am)
This weekend, Brandeis hosted the NCAA Fencing Championships. After four days of fast-paced action, all three weapons for both the men’s and women’s sides featured competitive semifinal and final matchups on a raised platform in the middle of Red Auerbach Arena. The atmosphere was electric the entire time, as hordes of supporters came to cheer on their fencers. The University of Notre Dame, Penn State University and Columbia University sent notably large contingencies which featured school flags, raucous cheers and large cutouts of their fencers’ faces. Pool play was long and grueling as each competing fencer faced the other 23 in their respective weapon for a chance to land in the top four and continue on to the next day.
(03/29/16 5:42am)
In Cuba on March 21, President Obama met with President Raul Castro and spoke of a “new day” for relations between their two countries, according to a March 21 New York Times article. While some argue that this is a historic step toward thawing decades of residual animosity from the Cold War, some — human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, in particular — demand President Castro release political prisoners before the two leaders move forward with a partnership of any kind. What do you think of ’President Obama’s actions in Cuba, and how should the two countries proceed?
(03/29/16 4:52am)
The construction of America’s concept of “war on women” came into full fruition in the recent presidential primary cycle. However, the phrase was coined in the late 1990s by Andrea Dworkin in response to GOP policies and political rhetoric surrounding women.
(03/22/16 6:10am)
On Mar. 6, a group of volunteers staged a used book sale in front of a Publix Supermarket to benefit Brandeis University Libraries, Scholarships and Research, according to a Miami’s Community Newspapers article.
(03/22/16 6:08am)
The Senate met on Sunday to discuss forming a committee to look into space allocation on campus and electing a new representative to the Community Enhancement and Emergency Fund.
(03/22/16 5:47am)
On Friday night, the Golding Auditorium was packed with excited students, waiting for Brandeis’ five comedy groups to make an entrance. Organized by Julia Green ’18, this event was titled “The Comedy Bunch” and featured all of Brandeis’ improv groups — Bad Grammer, Crowd Control, TBA and False Advertising — as well as the sketch comedy group Boris’ Kitchen. The combined humor and entertainment from all the groups had the audience engaged and laughing for the whole show.
(03/22/16 4:29am)
This Thursday, the Brandeis student body voted on candidates for various positions in the Student Union, including the position of the president of the union. David Herbstritt ’17 beat Christian Nunez ’18 by two votes for the seat and will subsequently serve as the president of the union through the 2016-2017 academic year. Winning by a mere 0.19 percent of the votes cast, a majority of student voters actually voted against Herbstritt; he just received the largest total percentage of voters. This election highlighted the extent to which every individual voice can make an impact on our campus. In this situation, one person’s vote quite literally could have swayed an entire election.
(03/22/16 3:20am)
Today’s society has become so dependent on technology that our phones store everything from our credit card information to our home address and several other pieces of incriminating information.
(03/22/16 1:46am)
In 1998, the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute created its 26 word mission statement: “The mission of the HBI is to develop fresh ideas about Jews and gender worldwide by producing and promoting scholarly research, artistic projects, and public engagement.” They’ve yet to make any changes, “which means we’re either stuck in the mud, or we came up with a good one,” said Prof. Shulamit Reinharz (SOC), laughing as she addressed the crowded Rapaporte Treasure Hall on Sunday night.
(03/15/16 7:54am)
On Monday night, Brandeis Conservatives and the Student Union co-sponsored a talk about freedom of speech on college campuses. The talk was held in Schwartz Hall at 6:45 p.m. and featured a lecture and question-and-answer session with Atlantic staff writer Conor Friedersdorf.
(03/15/16 7:06am)
The search for the new Chief Operating Officer, Chief Diversity Officer and Dean of the Heller School will begin shortly, according to a March 11 email to the community from Interim University President Lisa Lynch and Interim Provost Irving Epstein.
(03/15/16 5:34am)
On Sunday evening, the Lydian String Quartet performed in Slosberg Recital Hall, along with assorted guests, for a performance titled “Gabriel Fauré: A Chamber Music Retrospective,” as part of Fauré Festival Weekend. The Lydian performance was the culmination of a two-day celebration of renowned French composer Gabriel Fauré.
(03/15/16 5:29am)
Anyone walking past Levin Ballroom on Saturday night would have been staggered by what they would have seen. A line of over 200 students — and a few proud parents — were eagerly jostling to get inside for the Brandeis Korean Student Association’s annual K-nite stage show. This year’s presentation, titled “Heart and Seoul” (get it?), featured a loving salute to Korean culture, including everything from Tae Kwon Do demonstrations to K-Pop dancing.
