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Every member of a club executive board at Brandeis can tell stories of the mythical P-Card. A P-Card is a debit card that allows students to pay for club events straight out of Student Union’s bank account. These cards are meant for small purchases, such as office supplies, decorations, food and the like. There is […]
“Gravity,” which opened in theaters on Oct. 4, is not about gravity, but rather the lack thereof. Starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, the movie begins in space. Bullock’s character, medical engineer Ryan Stone, is installing a program into the Hubble Space Telescope. The function of this program is the first of many ambiguities within […]
Dear Eliana, Frankly, my roommates are making my room smell horrible. The disgusting rank body odor and dirty laundry is driving me insane. The problem is amplified by the fact that I sleep on a lifted bunk, and the smell rises to the top of the room, making it difficult for me to fall asleep. […]
After a second album, “Congratulations,” that did not do very well on pop charts, one would expect that MGMT would try to recreate the electro-pop sound of its 2007 debut “Oracular Spectacular.” Yet surprisingly, MGMT took a different route and created an album stranger and more psychedelic than its second. If this is Andrew VanWyngarden […]
Amid rainbow streamers in celebration of National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11, the Queer Resource Center has announced its proposal for the creation of a Gender and Sexuality Center. Margaret Borchert, co-coordinator for the Queer Resource Center, explained, “We thought Coming Out Day would be the perfect day for us to ‘come out’ with […]
On Oct. 4, Dr. Michael J. LaFarr, associate director of the Psychological Counseling Center (PCC), announced that Brandeis has been awarded the JedCampus Seal from the Jed Foundation in an emailed press release. The Jed Foundation is a “leading organization working to promote emotional health and prevent suicide among college students,” according to the press […]
Brandeis announced the hiring of a Sexual Assault Services and Prevention Specialist on Oct. 7, welcoming Sheila McMahon to the staff while hoping to bring awareness about a sensitive topic. McMahon will begin Nov. 1. Brandeis has had numerous sexual assault cases in the past, from allegations of sexual assault last January at a fraternity […]
The visual arts and sciences are commonly thought of as two separate fields of study, with little overlap between them. However, in his lecture “Science at the Art Museum,” Richard Newman, head of scientific research at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston, demonstrated the crucial role of scientific processes in understanding and preserving […]
Pouring through thousands of film reels and prints, Northwestern lecturer Pamela Bannos delivered her presentation “Vivian Maier’s Fractured Archive: A Woman’s Story” to the Women’s Studies Research Center this past Wednesday. Bannos has dedicated herself to piecing together the mystery behind the identity of Vivian Maier, a street photographer and nanny who lived in poverty, […]
The library at Brandeis houses a collection of rare Shakespeare works. Since 1961, the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections has counted books of Shakespeare’s plays that were printed in the 17th century among its acquisitions. In addition, the collection has a number of later anthologies of Shakespeare poems, as well as contemporary […]
