Upcoming Howard Dean visit sparks controversy
Campus and national politics collided this week when the Student Union executive office decided to help pay for Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean’s upcoming visit and angered Brandeis Republicans. The union accepted a request by sponsors of the April 15 event including the university chapter of the Dean-affiliated Democracy for America and Brandeis Democrats. […]
BADASS team hosts debate tournament
The Brandeis Academic Debate and Speech Society (BADASS) held their annual tournament last weekend, hosting more than 20 schools, including Yale, Columbia and the University of Maryland. A pair from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won overall after competing against more than 60 other teams. As hosts, BADASS did not compete but instead organized the […]
Harvard prof. asks ‘What is justice?’
Harvard professor and Brandeis alumnus Michael Sandel said that intense political debates should encourage, not neglect, the incorporation of moral arguments at an interactive forum with students on Monday evening. Sandel ’75, a Rhodes Scholar and former Brandeis trustee, engaged the students in Rappaport Treasure Hall by asking complex questions about justice and equality. Sandel’s […]
Seligman wins Mr. Brandeis competition
After an hour of thrilling competition at the Mr. Brandeis 2010 pageant, Jonah Seligman ’10 walked away with the title, a crown, a sash and a stuffed Dalmatian. Marc Eder ’11 and Ari Tretin ’12 were first and second runners up, respectively. The event, hosted by Ari Stein ’11 and Jeff Cornejo ’10, was a […]
Feminist Gera discusses Israel Women’s Network
Ella Gera spoke at Brandeis Wednesday about the state of women in Israel. The event, held at the Women’s Studies Research Center, was sponsored by the Hadassah Brandeis Institute and other groups to commence Women’s History Month. Gera, an economist and attorney, is considered by many to be the leading advocate for feminism and women’s […]
‘Food, Inc.’ director condemns food industry
Director of the documentary “Food, Inc.” Robert Kenner visited Brandeis on Sunday to talk about his film, which he described as just one piece of a much larger crusade against the food industry. This crusade began when people began to realize the health problems posed by fast food chains, as illustrated by documentaries like Morgan […]
Meal or points?
Last semester, Adrienne Karlovsky ’12 ran out of points. Over the semester, she would stock up on various snacks while still paying for meals with points; as Karlovsky explains it, “I was trying to double up.” By the end of the semester, her combo meal plan point allowance of 525 was gone. On Feb. 21, […]
Track and field faces challenging opponents at Open New England Championships
The men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams competed last weekend in the Open New England Championships, each managing to score points in the prestigious meet. Held this year at Boston University, the meet features athletes from colleges all over New England competing head-to-head regardless of their NCAA division. Qualifying to compete is difficult […]
Men’s basketball ’10 earns 80th victory, NCAA berth and UAA honors
Over the past week, Terrell Hollins ’10 and classmate Kenny Small have shown that the best of their team’s season is yet to come. After the senior class scored their 80th victory last Saturday, beating UAA rival NYU 69-62, they earned a berth in the NCAA Division III tournament on Monday. The Judges, who finished […]
After last big win, hoops seniors reflect, reminisce on four years at Brandeis
Entering Saturday’s regular season finale against New York University (14-12, 5-9), the Brandeis women’s basketball team needed a win–and lots of help–to qualify for the NCAA Division III tournament. They got the win, but did not make the tournament. Still, with the largest home crowd of the season on hand, the Judges ended the year […]
Swimming and diving set three school records
There was something special in the water for the Brandeis swimming and diving teams during last Sunday’s Eastern College Athletic Conference Open Championships. The Judges took the pressure of competing against the top schools on the East Coast and turned it into three new school records, leading the teams to top finishes among competing Division […]
VOCAL 2010 brings emotional relief
VOCAL, a club combining poetry and activism, hosted their annual 2010 poetry slam concert, which featured performers that exemplified the visceral nature of the spoken word. Each poet fueled their work with a reservoir of feeling, moving the audience with lyrical phrases, metaphors and beats. By the end of the evening, left shaky and exhilarated, […]
March Madness 2.0: video game edition
For many of you, March Madness evokes thoughts of the NCAA basketball tournament—the brackets and the betting pools, after all, are a thoroughly engrained part of our mainstream culture. When I think of this March, however, I think of something else—the upcoming major releases for successful game franchises. Between March ninth and 16th (that’s in […]
YouTube offers music-philes aural nirvana
Imagine being a music lover ten years ago. Seeking out recorded live performances by your favorite artists must have been nerve-wracking. Searching vainly for out-of-print videotapes and trolling the bootlegs in record stores would only yield the occasional gem. Hundreds of obscure musicians would exist only in your fantasies or in the one or two […]
Video and the radio star, now both dead
Since MTV pioneered the broadcasting of music videos with “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the medium has seen a few excellent highlights. The White Stripes used Legos. Prison inmates and Jennifer Garner have both performed the choreography from “Thriller.” There’s all those Michel Gondry videos, Aphex Twin weirdness and tons more examples of how a […]
NBC makes bad call with ‘Marriage Ref’
There are many things on which I would defer to Jerry Seinfeld. Comedy and how to make millions, for example, are things on which Seinfeld has an authority. Marriage advice, however, is not one of them. Unfortunately, NBC disagrees and this week premiered “The Marriage Ref,” a show in which a star-studded celebrity panel (which […]
Once was ‘Lost’ but now am (hopefully) found
No television show in the past decade has captured the American imagination quite in the same way as ABC’s “Lost,” the enigmatic program that recently embarked on its sixth and final season. With its seemingly infinite meanings, the show now has a finite space—ten episodes—in which it must bring the divergent threads of its sprawling […]
After shock: Students react to Chilean earthquake
The reverberations of last week’s 8.8 earth quake in Chile are being felt at Brandeis. The earthquake, one of the largest to ever hit the South American country, hit in the early morning hours and killed close to three hundred people. Brandeis currently has one student studying abroad in Chile. While officials in the Study […]
