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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.”
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.