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Brandeis Students for Justice in Palestine hosted Gideon Levy and Suhail Khalileh last Saturday for a discussion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the world’s response to the issue.
The men and women’s swimming and diving team competed in the Rochester Invitational on Saturday and Sunday but were unable to pull out a victory amid some strong individual performances.
In October of 1986, the New York Mets defeated the Boston Red Sox in Game 7 of the World Series, bringing the club its second championship in history. To Mets fans, the 29 years that have followed likely feel like centuries. The team has not won a Major League Baseball championship since then, stuck in a decades-long drought that has featured mid-season collapses, disappointing play on the field and heartbreak in 2000 when the Mets fell to the rival New York Yankees in the “Subway Series.” Though some Mets fans may have grown accustomed to heartbreak and mediocrity, it appears they once again have a reason for hope.
Last Tuesday, CNN hosted the first 2016 Democratic debate featuring candidates Hilary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee. The event, hosted in Las Vegas and moderated by CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, reached a new high in viewership: 11 percent of American homes with televisions tuned into the broadcast, according to CNN, beating the previous record of 8.9 percent in 2008. Among the key issues discussed during the debate were American involvement in the Middle East, gun control and economic policy. Sanders and Clinton took time to address some of the key concerns of their campaigns, including the perception that Clinton flip-flops on issues and Sanders’s self-described political philosophy of democratic socialism. Who won the debate?
Nationally renowned storyteller, poet and multicultural motivational speaker Bobby Gonzalez was the featured guest at AHORA’s, Brandeis’s Hispanic and Latino Organization, coffee talk on Hispanic identity, coordinated by AHORA Event Coordinator Alana Alves ’17. In celebration of the conclusion of Hispanic Heritage Month, Gonzalez took the floor to discuss the importance of recognizing Hispanic identity as a blend of cultures and heritage that should be inclusive for everyone.
To Prof. David Hackett Fischer (HIST), “history is not only about the past: it’s about memories of the past, it’s about experiences of the present, and it’s about anticipation of the future,” Fischer said in an interview with the Justice. In describing his childhood, Fischer recalls growing up in the midst of great historical events like the Great Depression, World War II and the Cold War. Yet to Fischer — and no doubt to many others — these events were also family events. “War was very much a part of my own experience,” Fischer said.
FIRST-HAND: Isabelle Rosenblatt ’17 strings together her first prosthetic hand that will be submittied for approval through e-NABLE next week.
LENDING A HAND: A member of the prosthetics club puts the final touches on his 3D-printed prosthetic hand.
A MODELED EXAMPLE: Founder and president of the club Liz Washington ’17 displays a prosthetic hand that was 3D printed in the Maker Lab.
HUMMING AND PRINTING: A 3D printer (center) is in the process of printing a prosthetic hand that can take up to 14 hours to complete.
It took 95 minutes, but Alec Spivack ’16 scored a howler off of a free kick to propel the Brandeis Judges (12-2-1, 2-2 UAA) to a 1-0 win in extra time on Sunday against the No. 7 Washington University in St. Louis Bears (12-2, 3-1 UAA). Spivack’s goal came at a crucial time, as the Judges had dropped a game to the unranked University of Chicago earlier in the weekend, but this win was important in keeping pace both in the UAA and in the national rankings.
On Oct. 11, Neuroscience Ph.D. candidate Vivek Vimal ’16 and Department of Community Service Specialist Brian Quigley led a discussion about Vimal’s work to build a partnership between science programs at the University and students attending Waltham High School. The talk touched on Vimal’s own life experience and transitioned into an open discussion about science and community service.
On Oct. 8, the Women’s Studies Research Center held a panel discussion on “Collateral Damage: Civil Society in War.” Through their research and artwork, the three panelists — WSRC scholars Mary Hamill and Linda Bond and senior lecturer at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston Bonnie Donohue — discussed how society changes both during and after war.
Over the past two weeks, there has been a colossal wave of terrorist attacks in Israel. In Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and virtually all parts of Israel, there have been over 150 terror attacks, including stabbings, shootings, stones thrown, vehicular rammings and suicide bombings, according to an Oct. 8 Jewish Telegraphic Agency article. No, you read that right. Why haven’t you heard about it, you ask? That’s because news outlets across the world have reported on a minuscule amount of them.
He worked in publishing for a couple years in New York in the ’80s, and his boss was always calling him into his office about something. One day, after he referred to someone whose book they were planning on publishing as a novelist, his boss said, ‘“Come in here! he’s not a novelist. ... a novelist is someone who has dedicated his or her life to the pursuit of this artform.’ At the time I thought that was curmudgeonly and old-school, but now I see the wisdom in it,” said Donald Antrim.
If you happen to drive down Barretts Mill Road in Concord on a Friday afternoon you’re likely to see Brandeis students hovering over holes in the ground or shaking dirt through a sieve. These students are part of two classes at Brandeis that are working together this fall to dig up the untold story of a historic site known as McGrath farm.
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“Felix at the Rose”
On Sept. 10, Prof. Anita Hill (Heller) and alumna Letty Pogrebin ’59 led a discussion on issues of tradition, social justice and activism in an event called “Faith, Race, and Feminism: The Bonds That Tie Them Together.” The event also featured a discussion of Pogrebin’s most recent novel, “Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate.”
This year, a few times a month, the Brandeis community should expect a concert near or inside the Rose Art Museum. The new series, Lamplight Sessions, is a collaboration between the Student Committee for the Rose Art Museum (SCRAM), Brandeis Television (BTV) and the University radio station, WBRS. The first Lamplight Session was on Sunday and featured the student group How Deep Was the Ocean (with students Harris Cohen ’16, Ben Kazenhoff ’16 and Gabe Rosenbloom ’16).