From recent to renaissance: Timeless a cappella
A cappella music is represented by twelve separate student-run groups at Brandeis, but apparently that’s not good enough for the Department of Music. Last Saturday, the Brandeis University Chamber Choir had the sheer audacity to hone in on the a cappella racket, simply because none of the established ensembles perform sixteenth-century French music. Can you […]
Brandeis theater community shows it cares
Many students attend Brandeis in the hopes of gaining an education that will allow them to make a positive impact on the world in the future, but a group of Brandeis undergraduates proved last weekend that there’s no reason students can’t start now. More than four hundred students gathered in Levin Ballroom on Saturday night […]
3D is not for me
The last three years have undoubtedly witnessed a boom in the number of 3D films arriving at cinemas across the country. Hollywood studios have continually restated their commitment to the technology, asserting that it is the way of the future—3D televisions will apparently be released within the next year—but all I see is a gimmick. […]
Let’s have a ‘Date Night’
Though Steve Carell and Tina Fey slip comfortably into the role of a mundane married couple in the new comedy “Date Night,” they never lose the comedic genius that made their past movies like “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” and “Mean Girls” hits. Instead of playing the loser characters with which they’ve become associated, Carell and Fey […]
Softball takes five of six
The Brandeis softball team improved to 20-5-1 after winning five of their six games this week. The only loss, which came at Bowdoin on Sunday afternoon, snapped the Judges seven game winning streak and gave them their first loss in 12 games. Brandeis has moved up in the rankings, now No. 20 in country in […]
Baseball continues to struggle, goes winless this week
It proved a forgettable week for the Brandeis baseball team. Of six scheduled games, only four were played. And, despite the continued offensive prowess of Judges leftfielder Chris Ferro ’13, the Judges lost all four matches. They have suffered defeats in seven straight games and now sit at 8-18 on the year. On April 9, […]
Golf opens up spring season with good performance
The men’s golf team hit the links this past weekend in their first tournament of the spring season, the UMass-Dartmouth Hampton Inn Invitational at Allendale Country Club. In their first competition in over five months, the Brandeis team came out strong, tying for sixth place out of 18 teams with Nichols College. Both schools had […]
Matchup: Faculty and staff take down students
Thursday’s Hoops for Haiti game was one for the ages. With Prof. Jacob Cohen (AMST) coaching the faculty and staff team to a 37 to 31 victory over the students, it was red shirts versus blue shirts as the stars of the Brandeis community displayed their talent, in all of its forms. The vocal leader […]
Priest discusses Catholic response to Nazi policies in WWII
The Brandeis Catholic Chaplaincy welcomed Dr. Kevin Spicer, C.S.C., a professor at Stonehill College, to Brandeis Thursday to mark Holocaust Remembrance Week. He discussed Judeo-Christian relations in Germany before WWII, and drew on information from his most recent book, “Hitler’s Priests: Catholic Clergy and National Socialism,” and from historical German archives. Spicer discussed the prejudices […]
Jewish film festival explores untold stories of the Holocaust
Jewishfilm.2010 this week marked the thirteenth annual Jewish film festival sponsored by the National Center for Jewish Film (NCJF). The festival began with an on-campus screening and New England premiere of “Berlin ’36,” a film inspired by the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, and a talk with special guest Susan Bachrach, curator of “Nazi Olympics, Berlin […]
Union elections to occur Tuesday, one round will decide the winners
The first round of Student Union elections, including those for president, executive board members and representatives to the board of trustees, will take place Tuesday, April 13 beginning at midnight. The second round will take place later this month, with Senate elections Thursday, April 22. The election timeline is abbreviated compared to usual cycles after […]
CAs distribute U.S. census to dorms
The 2010 Census was distributed in residence halls yesterday as part of a national effort to collect a population count of residents in the United States. Officials in charge of organizing census distribution at Brandeis worked on-campus on Wednesday and Thursday this week. “The census folks are preparing packets for each student,” said Jeremy Leiferman, […]
Finalists for Sillerman Center philanthropy prize explain proposals
Two finalists for the Sillerman Center’s Prize for Innovation in Philanthropy presented their proposals for increasing and spreading philanthropy on college campuses Thursday at the Heller School. The two groups, student organizations “Phront” and “Give!,” presented their ideas to a panel of judges who will award a prize of up to $8,000 to the student-led […]
Federal legislation reduces loan repayment, increases Pell Grants
President Obama’s new changes to federal student aid will not change the way students receive their federal Stafford loans but it will affect how much they pay and how long they will repay these loans. Changes will also allow more students to be eligible to receive federal Pell grants, educational funds given to students that […]
Cornwell and Brooks present ‘The Front’
The Film, Television and Interactive Media program’s sneak preview of “The Front,” a Lifetime original movie, made for an entertaining evening, especially when coupled with the question-and-answer session which followed. The film, based on a novel by crime writer Patricia Cornwell, had a satisfyingly twisty plot, featured stellar acting and, apart from a few discordant […]
Creative discourse: Discussing the genesis of the Players’ ‘M. Butterfly’
Taking time inbetween the many tasks that needed to be completed in preparation for yesterday’s premiere of the Brandeis Players’ production of “M. Butterfly,” director Aaron Arbiter ’10 and producer Asya Bashina ’12 spoke to The Hoot about the experience of working on the play. Playwright David Henry Hwang wrote the script of “M. Butterfly,” […]
Being ‘Intrepid’
My family bought The Intrepid for my Dad’s 50th birthday so he could live out his seafaring fantasies. A Sunfish, the 13-footer is not meant for ocean waves. It is the type of boat used on camp lakes and ponds to teach children to sail. We christened it “The Intrepid” after some large schooner in […]
‘Hot Tub’ feels just right
Based on the title “Hot Tub Time Machine” alone, you can instantly recognize you’re about to witness a movie that doesn’t exactly take itself seriously and is more than willing to immerse itself in all the kitsch its premise entails. Thankfully, this intentional silliness does not end with the film’s opening credits. Instead of simply […]
Polanski’s ‘Ghost’ a haunting thriller
In recent months, much more attention has been placed on director Roman Polanski’s legal troubles, stemming from his rape conviction of a minor in 1977, than on his work as a filmmaker. With the release of “The Ghost Writer”—the film Polanski was working on at the time of his arrest—the director presents another great movie […]
Epee Fencer Will Bedor ’10 places 24th at NCAA’s
Will Bedor ’10 finished off his collegiate fencing career by posting a 24th place finish at the NCAA Championships on March 27 to 28 at Harvard University. Bedor fenced four years for the Judges and was used to competing against the best Division I fencers in the country. At the NCAA Championships last month, most […]
