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Following the candidacy of an allegedly white student for Senator for Racial Minority Students, questions have surfaced regarding the issue of changing ones race with the registrar for the purposes of Student Union elections.
The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism and the Justice Brandeis Innocence Project hosted Righting Wrongful Convictions: A Dialogue between an Exoneree and his Prosecutor Tuesday, where wrongly convicted man Dennis Maher spoke alongside his prosecutor.
The practices of Brandeis.CampusShirts.net, a student-led screen printing initiative, have led to a possible Union Judiciary investigation, sources said Thursday. The debate comes after student allegations of undue pressure on student clubs, as well as a conflict of interest between the Finance Board and CampusShirts founder and former Finance Board member Jacob Bockelmann 09.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
