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Justine Root


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Climb aboard 'Express'

After viewing "Pineapple Express," I'm not really sure who should be responsible for reviewing movies from the stoner genre or for whom such films are intended.


Alumnus emphasizes the importance of globalization

Prof. Arjun Appadurai '70 spoke about the importance of globalizing American universities in order to make them part of civil society and to enhance understanding of global matters in his keynote address at a symposium held by the Office of Global Affairs last Tuesday.A Wien International Scholarship Program, Appadurai is the senior advisor for global initiatives at the New School in New York City and has written extensively on globalization.


Public debate focuses on provocative events

The Brandeis Academic Debate and Speech Society argued the pros and cons of the Brandeis administration placing restrictions on "sexually provocative" events during a public debate last Tuesday in the Shapiro Campus Center Atrium.


Jewish women in WWII

Last Tuesday Lenore Weitzman, an author and Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Scholar-in-Residence, discussed the work of the kashariyot, women who helped Jews in ghettos during the Holocaust, and the role that their gender has played in their disappearance from history.For the past 12 years, Weitzman has been researching the relationship between gender and the Holocaust.


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