The Water Children
Last weekend, Michael Carnow 07 made his second mainstage UTC effort as a director with Wendy McLeods The Water Children, a play tackling the incredibly sensitive issue of abortion. Many audience members were surely a little on edge thanks to the explosive issue that dominates the play, but strong performances and impressively even-handed writing helped make this a top-quality UTC production, quite possibly the best undergraduate theatrical effort since Fool for Love five months ago.
Storks and slime molds and bird fluoh my!
This past March 15th, 2006 (as opposed to the upcoming one), I became a third-degree uncle. Being a third-degree uncle is a lot like suffering a third-degree burn except it doesnt really involve fire or burning or having to get skin grafts. What it does involve, though, and in fact shares with a third-degree burn to a very large extent, is this: gas explosions.
Silent protest organized against Republican speaker
Brian Camenker spoke at a Brandeis Republican sponsored event in the Shapiro Campus Center Wednesday. A silent protest was held as a response to his appearance.
SAF reform amendment receives mixed reviews
In two weeks, the Brandeis student body will have the opportunity to vote for the Student Activities Fee (SAF) reform amendment. The Student Union has spent the past two semesters working on the amendment, which in its final form drastically changes the way that both secured organizations and chartered clubs receive funding. In order to pass, the amendment must be approved by 60% of voting students.
Day of Innocence ‘life-changing’
The Brandeis Institute for Investigative Journalism, spearheaded by Florence Graves and Pamela Cytrynbaum (JOUR), hosted an entire afternoon of speakers and films in what was described as A Day of Innocence.
Flaw in voting system brings election results into question
Flaws in the student online election system may have allowed members of the Class of 2005 to vote in this weeks and past Student Union elections this year, according to a Hoot investigation. The flaw was confirmed by Union Officials and is still unfixed for the Final Round of elections currently ongoing. Up to press time Round 1 primary results have not been invalidated.
Brandeis softball goes 1-4 to finish UAA tournament
The Brandeis softball team finished up UAA play in Florida last week. Brandeis won only one of its final five games while dropping four. For the UAA tournament, Brandeis went 2-6, winning its two games against Case Western Reserve and losing all of its games against Emory University, Washington University, and the University of Rochester.
Strong bats and arms give baseball good start
Brandeis baseball is off to a strong, if inconsistent, start with a 5-3 record after eight games played. The keys for the Judges have been strong hitting to take the lead and dominant to pitching to at the very least keep the team in the games. The beginning has suggested inconsistency in which Brandeis would beat Case-Western 13-3 only to fall the next day to Washington University 5-3.
Judges crush Leopards in home opener
The Brandeis baseball teams home opener was a huge success, as the Judges defeated the Wentworth Institute of Technology Leopards 15-4 on Tuesday. Brandeis entered the contest 4-3 with three of those wins coming against UAA opponents in Florida.
Brandeis Fencing fares well in NCAAs
Brandeis is on the national Division I sports scene, albeit a lesser known one. Three male fencers, Eugene Vortsman 08, Will Friedman 09, and Jeremy Simpson 06, made their mark in Houston, TX last weekend.
Brandeis to induct ’06 Hall of Fame class Sunday
Martin Zelnik leads the Hall of Fame class this year, as he and five other Brandeis Six alumni will be inducted on Sunday.
Men’s tennis makes clean sweep
Mens Tennis continued its upswing this spring, picking up their fourth straight win in a 7-0 sweep over the United States Coast Guard Academy. This is Brandeis third straight home victory, after defeating Clark University on Saturday 6-1. USCGA was so undermanned that their squad had both males and females aboard.
This Week in Sports
Baseball
Japan defeated Cuba 10-6 in the championship of the inaugural World Baseball Classic. Daisuke Matsuzaka, the starter for Japan in the final game, won the tournament MVP award.
Arsenic and Old Lace lights up the stage
This past weekend, Brandeis Players put on a production of Joseph Kesselrings Arsenic and Old Lace, directed, stage-managed, and produced by the extremely sexy trio of Michael Glicksman 08, Yarden Abukakis 09, and Pamela Leonard 06.
This is NOT a humor column
This weeks topic concerns a letter to the editor sent in to The Hoot by an alert reader, who shall remain nameless, concerning a column I wrote two weeks ago about the serious, non-humor related topic of dental hygiene for snails. The letter was signed His Name 08. (For those of you wondering, 08 is not actually his family name. At least thats what Ive been hearing on the grapevine these days. It must be what his buddies call him. And believe me when I tell you this: Id run around in circles really fast until I fell down TWICE just for a nickname like 08.)
Just plain revolting
Within seconds of the exceptional bass-line cutting into the writhing hardcore guitar lick on Sunny Day Real Estates In Circles, the revolutionary vibrations of the bands sound continued to travel with the breathtaking single twelve years after Diary was released. The widely acclaimed album has become a cornerstone for practically every modern rock album in the past decade, influencing the ever-changing face of music, the way Nirvanas Nevermind has affected aspiring musicians. While most bands that have ripped off of Sunny Day Real Estates unique and enticing sound tend to exude nothing more than mediocrity, staleness, and a formulaic sound, the album that helped launch an incredibly diverse and controversial genre sounds as fresh as the day it was printed, packaged, and pressed for release. While Diary and Sunny Day Real Estate continue to offer an invigorating and rewarding experience after repeated encounters, one modern act only offers the banal opposite that the unique Sunny Day Real Estate have offered millions: O.A.R.
In the season of the peeper and the crocus
There comes an indescribable sense of liberation when Winters grip finally breaks;
a feeling of freedom that perhaps only people in cold climates can appreciate. The first hint of this great deliverance is some hearty chestful of outdoor air breathed in at just the right moment: A rush of earth, moss, decaying leaves, fungi, and dew, mixed in perfect proportion and aged. Yes, thats it! Its coming…
Living analog in a digital world
Researchers, Developers, and Scientists are good for the earth,
New technology and discovery, do they give birth.
To improve life on this planet for all to use,
And in turn we lap it up with enthusiastic muse.
Proposed changes to SAF
Capital Expenditures Fund
Established to provide quick funding to clubs that have large, emergency expenses
2% of F-board budget to Cap Ex Fund;
$150,000 cap on fund
Board of Trustees to meet next week
The Board of Trustees will meet next week to discuss and vote on various topics pertinent to the university, including revisions to the universitys conflict of interest policies, changes to the Faculty Handbook, and the budget for the 2006-2007 school year.
