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...million pebbles will be encased in rectangular plexiglass columns, standing on a map of Eastern Europe and enclosed by barbed wire. The pebbles in each column will represent the number of Jews slaughtered in each East European country by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. The whole scene will be displayed during Brandeis University's Holocaust Rememberance Week, April 19 to 25, in an area between Brandeis' library and student center...
...sight. And that's the point, of course, said David Poskin, a Brandeis first-year student who is coordinating the display through the Brandeis Hillel. "It wasn't just six million that died," he explained in an interview. "It was six million people. It's more than a number...
Indeed, Poskin and the rest of the Brandeis organizers will make six million mean much more than a number to those participants in the Holocaust Remembrance Week. If six million is too large a figure for many to imagine, then the display and the penny drive will help people associate a six and six zeroes with the six million Jewish people swallowed in the flames of the Holocaust. In this case, assuming everything goes as planned (and Poskin is optimistic that everything will), the project will be a success...
Cornell and Clarkson were tied for third place with 27 points apiece. The ECAC's first tiebreaker, head-to-head results, was inconclusive--the teams tied twice. Criterion number two, the squads' record against the league's top four teams, resulted in another draw...
This is not any College business. It might concern the civil standing of Harvard's students, but any number of Harvard students have had a variety of involvements with the law around the country, and The Crimson does not feel compelled to station reporters in court houses around the country to keep a "black list" of all their infractions. So why was it necessary to publicize this chance discovery...