(10/28/14 3:34am)
Lucia, who works at the salad station in the Usdan food court, refills the station with carrots.
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(10/28/14 3:33am)
Andy works on Mondays at the Currito station in the Usdan Food Court.
(10/28/14 3:19am)
LGBTQ groups across campus hope this new center will provide a central, well-used location for gathering.
(10/28/14 3:19am)
Sara Brande ’15 holds office hours for TransBrandeis in the new Gender and Sexuality Center in the Usdan Student Center.
Performance shows off music for the modern age
(10/21/14 6:28am)
The latest installment of Brandeis’ Concert Series featured expansive mythology references, modified lyric poetry and even a few walrus noises. Saturday night’s concert, “The Electro-Acoustic Piano,” was part of coordinator and performer Keith Kirchoff’s ongoing project that helps redefine modern music by commissioning new works for technology and the piano. Kirchoff seeks out artists to commission pieces for the project and then performs the pieces throughout his tour. Since 2009, the Electro-Acoustic Piano project has commissioned over 20 different composers, such as Joshua Clausen, Marisol Jiminez and Benjamin Dean Taylor.
Indie film delves into fetishization of Asian women
(10/21/14 6:27am)
On Wednesday, the Brandeis Asian American Student Association offered a peek into the world of Steven and his wife, Sandy, through Debbie Lum’s Seeking Asian Female (2012). The film screening was followed by a group discussion and a taste of Korean food. Lum is a San Francisco Bay area director and film editor who has worked on countless short films. This independent film is her feature-length directorial debut.
Late music prof honored at concert
(10/21/14 6:24am)
A large crowd flocked to Slosberg Music Center on Sunday evening to honor the late Erwin Bodky, the first professor of music at Brandeis. An erudite teacher, composer, pianist and musicologist, this concert featured mostly his own compositions, interspersed with speaches about his work as a teacher and a lecture about his life. Spurred by an interest in the late professor’s compositions, Prof. Daniel Stepner (MUS) set forth the idea for this concert, inviting pianist and fellow faculty member Prof. Evan Hirsch (MUS) to join him in performing this long forgotten work.
Pop Culture
(10/21/14 6:16am)
Let’s check in with the current movies at the top of the box office. Up until this weekend, the number one film was Gone Girl, based on Gillian Flynn’s bestselling novel about a man and his missing wife. In the film, Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike took on the starring roles, drawing in over $18 million in ticket sales since it opened on Oct. 3. Both actors’ performances and the film itself are already generating Oscar buzz, according to Entertainment Weekly.
‘Gone Girl’ stays true to Flynn’s novel
(10/21/14 6:09am)
After Gone Girl’s reign on the literary scene, fans eagerly awaited the release of the movie version of Gillian Flynn’s novel on Oct. 3 and the movie had rather large expectations to fulfill. Starring Ben Affleck and former Bond girl Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl takes a captivating novel and expertly transforms the text into a shocking dramatic thriller. In addition to the thrilling plot, the acting displays a level of expertise and well-thought out casting.
Animal behaviorist addresses issue of declawing housecats
(10/21/14 6:03am)
The Paw Project, a 2013 documentary which tells the story of the movement toward banning the practice of declawing exotic and domestic cats in the United States, was screened by the Animal Appreciation/Pre-Veterinary Society this past Sunday. Dr. Stephanie Borns-Weil, an animal behaviorist at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, was the guest speaker at the discussion that was held immediately afterward.
Author praises ‘Detour’ for use of limited budget
(10/21/14 5:59am)
The University’s American Studies department held a screening of Edgar G. Ulmer’s classic B-movie film noir Detour (1945) yesterday, followed by a question-and-answer session with professor Noah Isenberg, the director of the Screen Studies program at Eugene Lang College. The event featured a brief introduction by Prof. Thomas Doherty (AMST).
EDITORIAL: Applaud activism in athletics
(10/21/14 4:52am)
On Oct. 17, Brandeis Athletics published a video on the Brandeis Athletics website as part of the You Can Play campaign, which works to ensure equality, respect and safety for all athletes regardless of sexual orientation. In the video, each of the University’s 19 varsity teams pledge not to tolerate discrimination.
EDITORIAL: Review assault policy recommendations
(10/21/14 4:51am)
When the University brought in Sexual Assault and Prevention Services Specialist Sheila McMahon in November 2013, her hiring was hailed as an innovative step forward for Brandeis in handling sexual assault on campus. McMahon, whose duties include educating the community on sexual assault prevention, coordinating advocacy services for survivors and acting as a liaison to student activities, is the first person to hold her position in the history of the University.
Corrections and Clarifications
(10/21/14 3:00am)
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‘John Altoon’ reflects artist’s ecclectic style
(10/14/14 6:28am)
The Rose Art Museum’s newest exhibit, John Altoon, is a collection of works by the titular artist which opened last Wednesday. The collection is on loan from Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and its exhibit will run through Dec. 21.
Exhibit highlights art of faculty and staff
(10/14/14 6:09am)
At times, students forget that professors are not just people who grade papers. The current exhibit in the Dreitzer Gallery in Spingold Theater proves that the lives of the people who teach us day in and day out are interesting beyond what we see in class.
Pop Culture
(10/14/14 6:06am)
A few weeks ago I wrote about the upcoming fall television season. Now that most new and returning shows have premiered, I’m seeing the most diverse lineup of main TV characters to date. Remember when the most popular show on television centered around six white, heterosexual Friends? Today, that is far from the case, with complex characters that are the opposite of cookie-cutter.
Biochemistry professor lectures on scientific “crackpottery”
(10/14/14 5:48am)
Prof. Chris Miller (BCHM) might be a biologist by profession, but in a lecture he gave on March 3 2014 at Oxford University, he tackled a subject that he said, in the opening words of the presentation, he had wanted to study for years: scientific crackpots.
Recognize and evaluate hidden dangers of structural racism
(10/14/14 4:38am)
This past summer my three-year-old nephew told me, “I don’t want to become any darker, I just want to stay white.” His father is white and his mother is black, so his skin was very light when he was born and has only recently started to get darker.
(10/14/14 3:44am)
Lynch brings a combination of field experience, as well as academic and administrative expertise to the provost position.