Prayer for a millennium

Come, friends, and, in the closing light of day,
take up the brick and set it while you may;

and thus, in laying brick on brick, assemble
the future now, and its foundation lay…

Into the Woods not your momma’s fairy tale

Apparently the Disney World theme park had it right: it is a small world after all, or at least the world of Into the Woods is. Tympanium Euphoriums production of Stephen Sondheims play unites various fairy tale characters, such as Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and Jack of Jack and the Beanstalk, in a intricate plot that shows that happily ever after is just the end of Act I.

Campus recycling program established

A collaboration of clubs and administrative offices announced this week the reestablishment of an abandoned recycling program that collects usable products and food from students. The program is expected to reduce the University's waste output as well as cut down on disposal fees.

Activist alum speaks to DFA

On Sunday, April 14, five years after former Student Union President Ben Brandzel 03 made his State of the Union address urging students to participate in a walkout if the United States went to war with Iraq, Democracy for America (DFA) brought Brandzel back to Brandeis to speak about his post-undergraduate experiences in the world of social activism.

Schwartzbaum gives State of the Union

Outgoing Student Union President Alison Schwartzbaum '08 gave her final State of the Union address Monday night in the Shapiro Atrium. Highlighting the best of an eventful semester, Schwartzbaum heralded her administrations successes working with the school and the faculty to change portions of Brandeis policy and aesthetics. Among projects initiated by the administration was the now-defunct Campaign for Peace, an organization intended to “to meet with students planning events with a potential to polarize and divide members of our community… and to build student capacity for dialogue,” founded shortly after former President Jimmy Carter visited campus in January. Schwartzbaum felt that “that the Campaign for Peace brought our low tolerance for real debate of meaningful issues, to the forefront of the Student Union's agenda. I hope that the Union will continue to find appropriate ways to create a more open, tolerant campus.”

Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Movie Film for fans only

Walking into the Embassy, Walthams very own independent movie theater, with my best male and female friends (appropriately from New Jersey), I began to worry that cute little Stacey might not like the movie we tricked her into seeing. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (or ATHFCMFFT) was, to say the least, hard to follow for even the most obsessive Aqua Teen fan.

Everythings (not so) cool

Following an introduction at this years Sundance Film Festival, activist-director Judith Helfand premiered her new film, Everythings Cool, to the Brandeis community Tuesday night. The documentary is an exploration of the past three-and-a-half years of environmental action and the dramatic shift in public opinion about global warming since 2003.

Work for grades, live for speed

Shortly before I started my career as a Midyear here at Brandeis this past January, I contemplated deleting all of the games that I had stored on my computer.
“They'll just be a distraction,” I told my myself. “You won't have time for video games.” But I had saved up these games for years. I had found them for free online, burned them from friends, taken them from shareware CDs, and overall, I considered myself to have an impressive collection. So I compromised with myself. “You may keep them on the computer, but no playing during the school year.”

Media have performed at substandard level in Virginia Tech debacle

In the wake of tragedies like the Virginia Tech shootings on Monday, it has become the job of journalists and the media to not only inform the public, but to comfort the American people as well. Taking these important tasks into account, I feel that the major news sources have performed at a substandard level at both (the media has chosen to ask more questions about Cho Seung-Hui guns than celebrating the lives of his victims), and that I should at least attempt to speak to the community here at Brandeis that I have been given an outlet to address.

Student activist and author advocates Department of Peace

Aaron Voldman 09, founder and director of the Student Peace Alliance, spoke Wednesday alongside author Marianne Williamson to an audience of over 115 people to advocate for a U.S. Department of Peace.