Solar panels installed, not turned on
Though the installation of solar panels on the roof of the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center was completed in January, the panels have yet to be used pending a safety inspection. The amount of energy lost in the meantime would be enough to power a typical household for three years. The panels cannot be turned […]
F-board creates new club finance system
The Student Union Treasurer and the Finance Board (F-Board) have created a new online structure to coordinate funding requests for university clubs and societies. The Student Union Management System (SUMS) is a new Web organization to simplify the “funding marathon” timeline. Before the online system, club leaders had to submit a request for funds by […]
Campus organizations rally to help Haiti relief initiative
B’Deis Records, a Brandeis independent record company, hosted a benefit concert for Haiti this Friday which coincided with a special charity Shabbat dinner. Then, on Saturday, an off-campus Greek mixer between the Zeta Beta Tou (ZBT) and Phi Psi fraternities also raised money for the cause. Together, the three events collected more than $3,300. “I […]
Enviromental program approved for fall Justice Brandeis Semester
The Justice Brandeis Semester (JBS) Committee and JBS program manager Alyssa Grinberg have approved one program for the fall semester. The environmental field semester will allow students to gain hands-on experience in stewardship of land and natural resources as well as gain in-depth knowledge into how law, ecology and history interact in the real world. […]
Film Department to sponsor improved SunDeis Film Festival
The annual SunDeis Film Festival will take place in late April and early May and will be sponsored by the Film Studies Department, reflecting Student Activities’ inability to organize the program this year. Student Activities, usually one of the main organizers of the event, but due to a lack of funding they will not sponsor […]
BADASS team places at national competition
The Brandeis Academic Debate and Speech Society (BADASS) and its newly elected executive board is off to a successful semester following a sixth place individual win at New York University (NYU) and two members’ attendance at the Worlds Council competition. Over the holiday break, Evan Green-Lowe ’10 and Jackie Saffir ’10 travelled to Istanbul to […]
Ringing in the Lunar New Year
The Brandeis Chinese Cultural Connection (BC3) ushered in the year of the tiger this past weekend with its annual Lunar New Year celebration, which proved to be a hit. BC3 held the event a week in advance of the actual holiday, as February 14, the day that will mark the beginning of the 15-day celebration […]
Who dat rocking at the Super Bowl?
The Who has always been a band with a particular place in my heart. I was still in middle school when my aunt bought me a copy of “Tommy” from a New Haven record store, and the combination of raw rock ’n roll power and genuine spiritual yearning that make up the group’s classic albums […]
Deliciously unsatisfying
Delicious food and the grab-and-go lifestyle don’t seem like they would go together—how can people fully appreciate their food when they barely have time to chew it?—but the newest addition to on-campus dining, the Upstairs Café, attempts to make even grab-and-go options tasty. While, for the most part, the Café succeeds in offering scrumptious meals, […]
Top ten date spots near campus
10. Dinner at Legal Sea Foods, Kendall Square A Boston original, Legal Sea Foods is a place to experience real New England cuisine. It’s the type of place you can go to in jeans or a little black dress. It can be a little pricy but its well worth it. The Kendall Square location is […]
CA warms hearts of the elderly
Sipping hot chocolate, Nadine Channaoui ’10 and the residents of Ziv 127 residents cut, pasted and glittered, in an effort to make this Valentine’s Day a special one for members of Waltham’s elderly community. This month, Channaoui, who is a community advisor in Ziv Quad decided to use her building program to help others in […]
All the single movies: films for a night alone
Hollywood has no shortage of movies for the person with a significant other on Valentine’s Day. Take for example the soon-to-be-released, aptly titled “Valentine’s Day” or the 2003 hit “Love Actually.” But what options are there for those who are single or do not readily buy into the format of the standard romance (i.e. guy […]
This comeback might not be televised
Gil Scott-Heron’s first album in 13 years, following his release from prison where he spent several years on drug-related charges, “I’m New Here” proves the artist’s talent is still prodigious, even if his output isn’t. The album, produced by the indie label XL, is a fast listen at just less than a half an hour […]
The anti-war movement: looking back forty years later: ‘If we sound like a confused generation, we were.’
This coming May will mark the 40th anniversary of the nationwide student protest against the Vietnam War, a protest in which Brandeis was declared the National Student Strike Information Center. Brandeis students began receiving call after call as colleges from as far as Texas phoned in to announce that they, too, were going to strike […]
Men’s basketball goes 2-1 on the week, 1-1 in UAA play
The 21st-ranked Brandeis men’s basketball team split their University Athletic Association play last weekend on the road before taking down visiting Amherst College Lord Jeffs on Tuesday evening. The Judges started off their weekend away by taking on the Case Western Reserve University Spartans on Friday night in Cleveland. Brandeis opened the game by taking […]
Women’s basketball continue their winning streak to four, Chapin sets school records
The Judges had their most successful University Athletic Association (UAA) road trip of the season last weekend when they took down the Case Western Reserve University Spartans 65-56 on Friday night and the Carnegie Mellon University Tartans 59-50 on Sunday afternoon. With the wins they improved to 13-6 overall and 6-3 in UAA play. They […]
Track teams heads into BU Valentine Invitational
The men’s and women’s track teams each posted several top-three finishes in the mile and shorter running events at the Tufts Invitational last weekend. Both teams will compete in the Valentine’s Day Classic at Boston University this weekend before heading into the post season. In the Tufts Invitational, Chris Brown ’12 and captain Dan Anastos […]
Fencing teams travel to Duke
The Brandeis women’s fencing team managed a 2-2 split in last weekend’s Duke Invitational in Durham, North Carolina, while the men’s team dropped all four of its matches. The men’s competition, which was held on Saturday, started with a 16-11 loss to the University of North Carolina. The sabre and epee squads lost by identical […]
War of the Rose
While the board of trustees was announcing the upcoming academic cuts on Jan. 20, eight fine arts majors were posting signs around campus reminding students of the cut they say was made to their academics one year earlier. “FYI: The Rose is still FOR SALE,” the signs read. Last year when the university board of […]
Roses are red, violets are blue…If you’re a cynic or a hopeless romantic, “Valentine’s Day” is just for you
The forecast for this weekend? Well, it appears that love is in the air. Or so the commercial powers that be—you know, the greeting card and chocolate industries that fuel Valentine’s Day—tell us. So what better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than with a film chronicling this romantic event? I know what you’re thinking: this […]
