Month: March 2008

How sweet it is for Men’s B-ball team

Three decades have passed since the Judges last trip to the Sweet 16. Tonight, they will make their bid to head to the Elite 8 of the Div. III NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, and to a very possible championship appearance. If the Judges play last weekend serves as any indication of what is in store, […]

Women’s B-ball ousted from tourney by Kean

It was a heck of a season for the Brandeis Judges’ Women’s basketball team, coming back from 15 down to defeat Southern Maine in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, 74-71. The Judges, however, could not keep up with hosts Kean as a second half offensive barrage led by Melissa Beyruti demolished Brandeis 95-61. […]

Judges’ bench could decide outcome against Plattsburgh

On the banks of Lake Champlain rests a small Upstate New York town known as Plattsburgh. This lovely home to approximately 19,000 residents plays hosts to the Sweet 16 today, as Brandeis takes on Plattsburgh State and the winner gets to take on the victor of the Richard Stockton (New Jersey) – Amherst matchup. And […]

A recap of the fencing season, from the inside

While I appreciate the subtle appreciation behind it, I am very sick of the too-often asked questions, “Oh, you’re on the fencing team? They’re supposed to be good, right?” Like I said, I’m glad that the inquisitor knows (or is at least pretending to know) that the fencing team is “supposed to be good,” but […]

UAA Championships a natural disaster for Track and Field

Braving blizzard conditions and key injuries, both the Men’s and Women’s Track and Field teams traveled to Cleveland this weekend to compete at the UAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. The squads did not fare so well at the competition, as injuries and underperformances were seen on the track and in the field. The Men’s […]

Do you really need a car at Brandeis?

The Jeep Compass outside East Pomerantz had another parking violation for being parked just outside the main entrance rather than in a spot in the lot. Why is it always parked there? Is that guy so reliant on his car that he can’t make it past the door without it? I have a car that’s […]

Brandeis students do as the Romans do

As 12 students and their tour guide climbed up the 320 steps to the copula of the crypts of St. Peter’s and celebrated mass in one of the small chapels, the blending of several different languages filled the walls, reverberating all around, and hitting their ears. No, this isn’t some creative writing story, and it’s […]

A comedy to die for

There are certain capacities where one would find slapstick humor inappropriate. Funerals would be such a capacity. So why do critics find Frank Oz’s Death at a Funeral to be so “uproariously funny?” (Claudia Puig, USA Today). That’s a simple question to answer. Death at a Funeral is the perfect mix of an entertaining plot […]

Patchwork sound

“While people have cheered on the awful mess we’ve made,” crooned indie pop songstress, St. Vincent, “through storms of red roses, we’ve exited the stage.” After her stellar performance on Saturday night at the Middle East, the couplet seemed particularly apropos, even if the only “awful mess” of the night came from her overenthusiastic drunken […]

But I didn't, so it doesn't

Between the assassinations, attempted suicide, witty banter and pokes at Americans, who would have thought that a moral question lies at the heart of In Bruges? Surprisingly though this dark comedy manages to question whether sin is really as black and white as society makes it out to be; suggesting rather that certain sins are […]

Black Shadow

I’m a silent shadow dressed in black Unnoticed, ignored… Given a freedom not realized or understood Until too late I walk down the street in black And blacker still You try to confine me Buy me, hide me from your sight You say I incest you Inspire you, leave you sleepless and hot You gave […]

Girl punk band is no black Hole

Courtney Love doesn’t get a lot of positive press these days. In fact, I don’t think she’s gotten much positive press in her entire career, and there are legitimate reasons for that. Her behaviors, habits, and attention grabbing comments are generally thought of as part of one of the world’s most ridiculous circus acts. I […]

American Idol: Brandeis style

On Wednesday, March 5, 2008, the beginning of a new legacy was wrought upon Brandeis. The quest, to do whatever you do best, whether it be chugging Tabasco or performing Beethoven’s first symphony on the piano. The challenge, to impress a panel of judges made up of Gustavo Pardo, the fair thinker,(in the vain of […]

Band diversifies album options

Nine Inch Nail’s Trent Reznor has long detested aspects of the music industry, and the release of his most recent album of instrumentals, Ghosts I-IV, has made waves in a similar fashion to Radiohead’s pioneering “pay what you want” release of their latest album, In Rainbows. Reznor’s release is in fact as significant if not […]

Activists gather for STAND conference at Brandeis

Several months’ worth of preparation by the Brandeis chapter of STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition finally culminated into the final national STAND conference in the string of six held in February. STAND, which uses advocacy, education, and action to help end genocide in Darfur and prevent it elsewhere, saw remarkable success in hosting the northeast […]

Speaker discusses experience as flight hostage in Jordan

The Brandeis Zionist Alliance brought author David Raab to speak Tuesday about his book Terror in Black September, which recounts his experience and subsequent research about the Dawson’s Field Hijacking of September 1970. Seventeen year-old Raab spent the summer of 1970 in Israel with his family and boarded TWA Flight 741 from Frankfurt with his […]