Mixed Heritage Club shares personal experiences
Founded last semester, the Mixed Heritage Club (MHC) provides an outlet for the mixed heritage community at Brandeis and for those who would like to share in the mixed heritage experience. Last Tuesday’s showcase provided attendees an inside look on what being of mixed heritage truly means. “In Mixed Company” began with a dynamic group […]
X marks the spot
After four years, Aussie pop star Kiley Minogue released her new album X this past Tuesday. The album has been in wide release in Europe and the UK since November 26, and doing very well there. Minogue has had a very successful career throughout her lifetime. In 1988, “The Loco-Motion” swept the States as well […]
No more action movies
So I watched Predator last night. You know – the movie where an invisible alien hunter stalks and kills Arnold Schwarzenegger and some slightly less muscular guys in the jungle? I must say, I rarely enjoy a movie as much as I enjoy Predator. Don’t get me wrong in calling it a great movie or […]
Chinese folk play adapted
The Brandeis Theater Company took a tremendous risk about a year ago by placing The Orphan of Zhao, an adaptation of a Chinese folk tale, on the bill for the 2007-2008 season. It’s always a gamble to try translating a story across languages (let alone cultures) that are so widely different. The resulting production could […]
Divas rule this week's charts
In most card games, a King trumps a Queen, but this week Madonna and Mariah Carey proved that two queens is pretty hard to beat. Both divas managed to set records previously held by Elvis Presley. Carey’s new single, “Touch My Body,” is currently number one on the Billboard charts, making it Carey’s 18th single […]
Rant: 7/18/07
The injustices of this world are not made by those who do nothing by rather by those who in innocence overlook the injustice being done before their very eyes. Humanity claims that the Earth is our world, our treasure but we do not treasure it as we should. It would be better if we did […]
Still catering to popular tastes after 40 years
According to a recent article on online indie music publication, Pitchfork Media, the radio industry has fundamentally changed since the heyday of English DJ, John Peel. Essentially, Peel felt that his mission was to educate and inform listeners in addition to entertaining them, exposing them to sounds and styles with which they might not be […]
Reliving past experiences through someone else
This Thursday March 3, 2008, an interfaith dialogue was facilitated within Chums Coffeehouse. At the crux of a deliberation and investigation of religion, how it plays a role in constructing one’s own truths as well as one’s own reality, was a performance by Brandeis’ own Playback Theater Society. The troupe, led by current sophomore Etta […]
Union Senate considers chartering exclusive performance clubs
The Student Union has been discussing the possibility of changing a bylaw prohibiting certain groups from becoming chartered and thus, from requesting money from the Finance Board. To Be Announced member Amy Marsh ’08, proposed the initial request to change the bylaw. She suggested that performance groups which continually provide for the community and have […]
Baseball shuts out MIT, falls to Babson, Fitchburg State
In baseball, all it takes is one. One good pitch to hit the ball, one hit batsman to start a fight, and, as the Judges learned at Babson, one run to lose a game. One run was the difference as a furious rally fell short in the Judges’ 8-7 defeat to Fitchburg State. Brandeis jumped […]
Streilein leads Softball to doubleheader sweep against WPI
Brandeis softball proved that home was where the heart is by climbing back to a winning record after sweeping WPI in their April 2nd double-header 9-1 and 5-4. The win was thanks in large part to the efforts of Kaitlin Streilein ’08, who did it all at the plate and in the field. Game One […]
Former Brandeis fencer to compete in Beijing Olympics
In the past sixty years, Brandeis University alumni have become renowned as world-class academics, artists, businesspeople, and politicians. However, until this year, Brandeis has never had a graduate who has gone on to compete at the Olympic games, the highest level of athletic competition in the world. That changed earlier this week, as fencer Tim […]
Women’s tennis stops streaking Roger Williams with 9-0 victory
Brandeis women’s tennis took their show on the road and left with a standing ovation, stopping Roger Williams’s 14 game winning streak in a 9-0 rout. The day started off with Brandeis sweeping the doubles matches, with the number one pairing of Colleen Donnelly ’08 and Rachel Rosman ’11 sweeping aside the Hawk pair of […]
Do students have a say? Skeptical students respond to elections
It was election season again. Between seemingly thousands of flyers that littered the walls of nearly every building, and a singing candidate with a guitar and a harmonica on the Rabb Steps, it was hard not to notice the democratic sentiment which permeated this fine campus (apparently). But in this newfound fervor, it was easy […]
The trials of elections: exhausted candidates speak
Andrew Brooks ‘09 spent over 30 hours working last week, not including two all-nighters, and he was still falling behind on school work. Not because he had so much work, but because schoolwork wasn’t what was taking his time. Brooks was preparing and campaigning before Student Union elections this past Sunday in an effort to […]
