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The women’s soccer team ended its season on Saturday after a 1-0 loss to No. 3 William Smith College in overtime. The Judges made it to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Division III Tournament and closed their season with an overall record of 15-3-4.
The Judges continued their strong start to the fencing season at their first Northeast Fencing Conference meet of the season in Providence, RI as the men posted a 5-0 record and the women went 6-0.
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As part of the upcoming celebration of the 100th anniversary of Louis D. Brandeis’s appointment to the Supreme Court, the University is hosting a panel discussion called “Louis D. Brandeis, the Supreme Court and American Democracy.”
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Brandeis’s Student Union unveiled its new website to the public on Nov. 4, updating its internet presence in content, style and substance. According to Student Union President Nyah Macklin ’16, the new webpage seeks to improve the Student Union’s transparency and act as a more comprehensive source of information for the Brandeis student community on their representative body.
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.”
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.”
We are currently in the fall box office season, which is the hazy time between summer blockbusters and big holiday releases. While we still have to wait to see the final "Hunger Games" installment, there are several current and upcoming offbeat films, many featuring female leads, that can fill the void.
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.
Kim Conaty has been appointed Curator for the Rose Art Museum. The announcement came last Tuesday in a press release, which stated that Conaty will begin her role in December. The position of curator is new at the Rose. Exhibitions are currently overseen by a variety of players, including Curator-at-Large Katy Siegel, who works remotely from New York, where she teaches at Hunter College, CUNY. Conaty will be on the museum premises on a daily basis.
Brandeis Ensemble Theater challenged patriarchal society and rape culture in their production of “The Love of the Nightingale” in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater this past weekend. The play was written by Timberlake Wertenbaker in 1989 and is a retelling of an Ancient Greek myth about the rape of the Athenian princess Philomela (Keturah Walker ’18) by her brother-in-law Tereus (Andrew Hyde ’17), the king of Thrace.
Brandeis’s Students to End Alzheimer’s Disease (SEAD) discussed the basics of Alzheimer’s disease in a lecture on Thursday. The event, titled the “Alz Talk,” featured Dr. Jonathan Jackson — Research Fellow in Neurology at Harvard Medical School — who spoke about the disease and presented recent developments in the field.
On Monday, the University welcomed media critic Anita Sarkeesian for a lecture on sexist and anti-feminist tropes in video games. The lecture had initially been planned for February, but it had to be rescheduled due to major snowfall that caused travel problems.
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Kinan Azmeh, a Syrian composer and clarinetist, and Kevork Mourad, a Syrian-Armenian painter and visual artist, completed their weeklong residency this weekend. The artists were on campus as part of the MusicUnitesUs Intercultural Residency series, directed by Prof. Judith Eissenberg (MUS). As a culmination of the residency on Saturday evening in Slosberg Recital Hall, Kenan and Mourad performed “Home Within,” their new hour-long audio-visual project. The piece is an abstract telling of the themes and effects of Syria’s revolution and delves into recent events of the revolution. The Lydian String Quartet also performed a world premiere work by Azmeh and Khalil Younes, written specifically for the Brandeis visit.
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The volleyball squad went 1-2 this past week, losing to Babson College 0-3 and Vassar College 1-3 on Saturday at Brandeis, after defeating Lasell College 3-1 at Lasell on Wednesday. After sustaining a 10-match losing streak that lasted nearly a month, the Judges have now won two of their last six contests.
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.
As part of a panel of experts from multiple backgrounds and universities, Rabbi David Ellenson — the director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies — participated in a debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at Boston University on Wednesday. The debate was one part of an event titled “Yitzhak Rabin & the Legacy of Oslo: Prospects for Mid-East Peace Twenty Years After the Assassination.”