Great Day for a Race rocks out at Brandeis
Brandeis own Great Day for a Race, after much anticipation from those devoted Chums fans, released their debut album, All that Life Intends. To be honest, I have little faith in college bands in general, and they are prone to writing trite and hackneyed songs about lost loves and nostalgia played with 2.5 powerchords and predictable guitar solos. They also usually fit into the tired mold of the guitar, bass, drums trio. I was relieved when I found out that the band was in fact made up of five: Ryan Pressman 06 on lead guitar, Jason Prapas 06 on vocals and guitar, Brian Schon 06 on drums, Mayank Puri 08 on bass, and, my favorite part, Rich Frank 06 on the sax. As a recent discoverer of the wonders of jazz, I find the addition of a saxophone to an otherwise generic-looking band is rather appealing.
The good, the bad and Tristan and Isolde
As someone who took Arthurian Literature last semester, I recognized the names Tristan and Isolde when I first heard about this movie. Since I didnt actually read about them in class, I only knew what the commercial could have taught me. Its about doomed love la Romeo and Juliet.
The color of twilight
She has always been Grandma to me, even though my dads real mother, Martha, died before I was born. Long before my grandfather married either one, just as he was to go off to college, life intervened. The Great Depression forced him to leave New York for California to help his uncle in his shoe store. Things used to be like that, Im told. But while in Los Angeles, he met my biological grandmother, and thats why youre reading this…
Contact your local poison control center immediately
As Brandeis Universitys go-to-guy for questions concerning serious life-altering issues, such as, Why does the university insist on stocking the bathrooms with toilet paper so thin that it disintegrates at the flatulence of a bacterium and you have to fold it in half in excess of 84 times before attempting use?, the future of peoples psychiatric health lays squarely at my fingertips. Some days I get so many questions that I dont even have time to copy my lab report from someone else seven minutes before its due.
SAF history, 2001-2004: corruption and mismanagement
In a multi-part series, The Hoot examines some issues that have led to an outcry for change in the way the Student Activities Fee (SAF) is managed. In Part 1, last semester, The Hoot examined the historical growth of the SAF, of which the current system is an outgrowth. In Part 2, The Hoot recounts significant events from the last five years that have lead to the cries for change.
Here are The Financial Audit and The Financial Review referenced in this article.
Stein given warning from Waltham Liquor Comm.
The universitys Stein restaurant received a warning from the Waltham Liquor Commission at a hearing Tuesday after failing a recent compliance check, according to Waltham police.
‘Senior Speaker’ selection process changed
On Dec. 11, 2005 the Student Union Senate passed a resolution in response to changes in the senior speaker selection process made by the Office of the Dean of Student Life. The changes in the process were part of an overhaul of the commencement ceremony in an attempt by the administration to shorten its length.
Student leaders not consulted on draft of alcohol policy
Student leaders complained this week of a lack of consultation from the administration regarding the recent drafting of a university policy regarding alcohol at student-run events.
‘Deis Basketball : Road Splits
When this season began, the collective goal of the team was to make the NCAA Division 3 Championship;
last years squad lost only four games, all to UAA opponents, and as a result Brandeis had to settle for their second ECAC award. After having lost to NYU on the 14th, Brandeis responded by knocking off Tufts at home and then hoped to take two conference victories on the road. They won the first game against Chicago but their loss to Washington University has left NCAA hopes on tenuous ground.
Swim Notebook
This past Saturday was the final home meet of the year for the Brandeis Mens and Womens Swimming teams. It was also the final home meet for the graduating seniors. The women dominated their meet against Worcester Polytechnical Institute. The men, on the other hand, had a tough battle and lost at the very end.
This Week in Sports
The U.S. Treasury Department decided last week to issue a license allowing Cuba to play in the World Baseball Classic. The U.S. had vetoed the previous bid to allow Cuba to play, but changed its mind after Cuba announced it would give all of its earnings to Hurricane Katrina victims.
Star Judges
This week, three Brandeis athletes have been named UAA Athletes of the Week. The recipients are: womens basketball forward Caitlin Malcolm 07, mens forward Steve DeLuca 08, and first-year track star Anat Benum 09.
Skating into form
After two close losses, the Brandeis club hockey team had a 6-6-2 record going into winter break, leaving them in third place in their division. However, with games against the club team Diablos (2-12-3) and Boston River Rats (3-12-3), the team looked to be in good position to boost both their record and confidence as the postseason approaches.
Track Notebook
With the winter break over and their lineups complete, the Brandeis Mens and Womens Track teams came out flying at the Reggie Poyau Invitational, putting on a show at their only home meet of the year. The women won 11 events and scored 187 points to finish in first place, well ahead of second place Bowdoin. This was a bit of retribution for the womens team, which competed against Bowdoin with a depleted lineup last week and was handed a lopsided loss.
Humanites v sciences with a whipped topping of perversion
The average student at a liberal arts school such as ours generally has two choices regarding which path to take through four years of quality education offered by top-notch staff and state-of-the-art duck and squirrel population all for the measly sum of $120,000 plus room, board, meal plan, student activities fee, technology fee, gratuity fee, gratuitous fee, duck and squirrel maintenance fee, presidential salary fee, and the fee to round off the number of fees to 10 so theyll fit in the Excel spreadsheet used to print and calculate the final fee.
Comedian Max Lance to perform at Brandeis
Collegehumor.com humorist and comedian Max Lance will be performing at Brandeis this upcoming Sunday at 9:30 p.m. in the Shapiro Campus Center.
Something old, something newundergrad theater preview
This article is dedicated to those who think there is nothing to do at Brandeis because this semesters undergraduate theater scene offers so much varietyfrom light, amusing comedies to politically-charged dramas and from Renaissance classics to the freshest offerings of Broadway. This really is a season that offers something for every theatrical taste.
Qimmeq and the cafeteria caper
Fall semester: Seems like only yesterday. Fear. Dysentery. Midterms. And none of us will ever forget the events of 12/11, the day that changed Brandeis forever
Thus began a quest by some brave students, with the help of my faithful dog, Qimmeq, to solve the Mystery of the Cafeteria Caper.
Hope the hype will help: a music preview
In the 1996 film The Great White Hype, the faux boxing world in the Hollywood tale was thrown into a whirlwind of popular public interest in the sport due to one promoters ideal to pit the world-boxing champion against an unknown, white boxer. Among a number of the themes the film built upon, it is the pure exploitation of the unknown boxers race that builds up the hype needed to promote interest in a sport thats losing its accessibility to the public. It is the films smart observation of the ever-present presence of hype in sports, and life, that makes the rather weighty comedy redeemable;
the ability for hype to create, popularize, and even kill entire careers, movies, and (in the case of the movie) boxers is an incredibly important aspect of modern society. It is the aspect of hype that plays such a strong role in the world of music;
it creates some bands' entire careers while diminishing other groups careers into nothing. At the very core of it, hype is something that keeps the modern publics interest afloat;
with that in mind, here are a number of bands that hopefully will be in the good graces of hype in the coming year.
The Brandeis Brief
Zionist Organization of America threatens boycott
The Zionist Organization of America has threatened to boycott the University due to its employment of Khalil Shikaki, a scholar at Brandeis Crown Center for Middle East Studies, according to New York newspaper The Forward. The ZOA accuses Shikaki of ties to Islamic Jihad. These alleged ties were the subject of a Tuesday article in The New York Sun. University President Jehuda Reinharz said there is absolutely no evidence of any offenses, according to The Forward.
