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Evoking emotions of compassion amid performances laced with an artful blend of humor, tragic suffering and self discovery, student performers portrayed the violent plights suffered by women globally through their rendition of “The Vagina Monologues,” by Eve Ensler, this past weekend. With a diverse cast of students, stemming from departments across the university, the production […]
In Hebrew it’s called emet. In English, however, perhaps most of us know it better as truth. At Brandeis, we encounter this word daily. It’s thrown around in conversations and pursued in campus clubs. Other times, students have protested for it. Mostly, at Brandeis, we search for truth as a way to realize social justice—in […]
This week, The Rose Art Museum celebrates the opening of three new exhibits from artists Ed Ruscha, Sam Jury and Walead Beshty. In Beshty’s exhibit, titled “On the Matter of Abstraction (figs. A & B)” and “Walead Beshty: Untitled” he has transformed the floor of the gallery into a mirrored glass floor where viewers are […]
As new seasons of television shows get into the thick of the drama, “Grey’s Anatomy” is no exception. The show ended last season with a major cliffhanger—a tool that the show uses to engage the audience each season—and this season picked up right where it left off. The most recent epic cliffhanger was a plane […]
Audience after audience was left in awe after the Boston Colonial Theater’s production of “Memphis” this winter. The plot of “Memphis” is based on Memphis disc jockey Dewey Philips, who was one of the first white DJs to play African American music in the 1950s. Huey Calhoun (Bryan Fenkart), a quirky white man, falls in […]
Online higher education in the United States, while growing in influence during the past decade, has attracted considerable controversy. Opponents of online courses have criticized the quality of education they provide. However, online education has significant advantages: it is especially cost-effective and allows for more time flexibility than its in-class counterpart. Historically, it is precisely […]
Award show season has always been a guilty pleasure of mine. Watching the superficial pomp and circumstance of the red carpet and the lavish ceremonies that celebrate the pinnacle of the past year’s art and culture makes me feel like a party-goer at one of The Great Gatsby’s celebrations (if only that were true). But […]
After bouncing back with a win against the University of Rochester that broke their seven-game losing streak, the women’s basketball team suffered two losses on the road this past weekend. The weekend’s losses against Carnegie Mellon and Case Western Reserve—the Judges’ second matchup with both teams since facing them on their home court earlier in […]
The Brandeis men’s basketball team went 1-1 for the second straight weekend, losing to Case Western Reserve University on Sunday and defeating Carnegie Mellon University on Friday. The Judges defeated both teams at home last month. The game against the Case Western Spartans left the Judges on the losing side of a 56-47 game and […]
