K-NITE brings Korea to campus
The Brandeis Korean Student Association (BKSA) invited the campus to “Explore Korea” at K-Nite 2012 last Friday night in Levin Ballroom, which was decorated with hanging banners and colorful streamers. Bright booklets on the tables displayed the food and landscape of Korea with chocolate gold coins imprinted with “BKSA” at every seat. A large portion […]
Jake Coco improves pop music one cover at a time
Many amateur covers of songs on YouTube are performed by no-name 12 year olds and are often of very poor quality. Jake Coco, however, is an exception. Covering many different popular songs, as well as writing his own, he has become my go-to person for new music. He consistently releases new covers of songs that […]
Tymp’s ‘Good Man’ an enjoyable find
“Why is it that I always have supper in the red dish and my drinking water in the yellow dish?” a wise beagle asks himself in the musical “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown,” which Tympanium Euphorium is staging this weekend. “One of these days, I’m going to have my supper in the yellow dish […]
Softball endures harsh week to even record at .500
This past week the Brandeis University softball team went through a gauntlet of games playing four double-headers. They went 5-3 in this stretch once again to reach .500 with a record of 8-8 (3-5 UAA). In the first double-header, the team split a pair of games with Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). In the opening game, […]
Julian Cardillo reflects on fencing season
This past weekend foilist Julian Cardillo ’14 finished 19th out of 24 foil fencers at the NCAA Collegiate Fencing championships at Ohio State University. Cardillo is currently majoring in politics with a minor in journalism. Aside from fencing, he is also involved with WBRS and BCLU. Cardillo, who placed 17th in the championships last year, […]
As baseball’s losing streak continues, season getting out of hand
The baseball team failed to break out of their slump this past week as they dropped all three of their games to fall to 5-16 (1-7 UAA) on the season. The team has now lost 13 of their past 14 games by an average of 5.5 runs. This past Sunday, the Judges faced Framingham State. […]
Bial will address graduates
Deborah Bial ’87, founder and president of the Posse Foundation, will deliver the 2012 commencement address, President Fred Lawrence announced at the university’s board of trustees meeting on Wednesday. Along with two Nobel Prize winners, a musical educator, and former philanthropist and Brandeis trustee Myra Kraft who passed away last year, Bial will receive an […]
Women’s tennis continues early domination
The 25th-ranked Brandeis women’s tennis team easily dispatched Bentley University 8-1 in their home opener Thursday afternoon. Alexa Katz ’14 sealed the victory for the Judges with her straight set victory 6-0, 6-2 at No. 4 singles. After Katz clinched the match, the Judges won three of the final four matches. With the win, the […]
‘Footloose’ has all the right moves
It’s always a risky venture when you stage a show as familiar as “Footloose.” After all, the 1984 Kevin Bacon movie has long been a part of our pop culture lexicon, and a remake appeared just last fall. As it turns out, this risk pays off handsomely for the Hillel Theater Group (HTG), which is […]
Men’s tennis falls in home opener
In their first home match of the season, the Brandeis men’s tennis team fell 7-2 to visiting Bentley University. With captain Steven Milo ’13, Dave Yovanoff ’13 and Ezra Bernstein ’12 all missing Wednesday’s game, the Judges struggled to replace them on the court. “I strained my patellar tendon [in my knee] so I just […]
Social media privacy not black and white
Social media has made headlines in the news lately because of its role and effectiveness in not only spreading news but popularizing it. The Kony 2012 campaign, specifically, caught the eyes of traditional news networks that praised it for raising awareness. The campaign criticized the media for factual fallacies and jealously pointed out that they’d […]
John Elway’s gamble: Peyton heads west
This past Monday, the National Football League (NFL) was turned on its head as reports emerged from ESPN’s Chris Mortensen and Adam Schefter that Peyton Manning would be signing with the Denver Broncos. After missing the entire 2011-2012 NFL season recovering from multiple neck surgeries, the Colts decided to part ways with Manning earlier this […]
Musika Rox rocks
Musika Rox. Musika is Hebrew for Music. Rox is Arabic for dance. I think it is time for B’Yachad Israeli Dance Troupe to rename their annual show because they brought much more than just Middle Eastern song and dance; they brought fun, poetry and discussion—just to name a few of the additions—to their show March […]
Baseball continues to struggle, dropping four straight games
After getting their first win of the UAA tournament in Florida last week, the baseball team was looking to build on that victory and begin a winning streak. Unfortunately, the Judges failed to sustain any momentum from their victory against Case Western, dropping the final two games of the UAA tournament to Rochester and Case […]
Softball goes 1-2 over weekend to end UAA tournament
After losing a close game 8-7 to Rochester last Friday, the Judges’ softball squad split a doubleheader on Saturday, with an 11-3 win against Case Western, and another close loss, 5-4, to Washington University at St. Louis. The team returned from the UAA tournament in Altamonte Springs, Fla., finishing the tournament with a 3-5 record. […]
Boston Village Gamelan brings Javanese music to Brandeis
“Welcome to the workshop! You can watch us for 10 minutes, then you have to start playing.” It was 4 p.m. on Wednesday, and I had an hour before class on a beautiful spring afternoon. On the idealized silver screen, settings like this are for lounging on the lawn and reading or dozing off; perhaps […]
New show ‘Missing’ suspense and intelligence
Often when reviewing a new show based off of a pilot episode, one needs to hedge one’s bets and say that while the show is good or bad now, that can easily change as it is only the pilot episode. I feel I can say, however, that “Missing,” ABC’s new Thursday night drama, is terrible […]
Competing narratives in student manager story
In response to a Hoot article last week discussing a decline in student manager positions at Usdan, Aaron Bennos, director of Dining Services, contested the decline was intentional. “As we determine those who have the desire to become a student manager and are willing to take on more responsibility we gladly promote them,” Bennos wrote […]
Women’s tennis suffers first loss of season
The 26th-ranked Brandeis women’s tennis team easily defeated their UAA rival NYU 8-1 before falling to 10th-ranked Middlebury College at the Middlebury Invitational last weekend. With the split at the tournament Brandeis is now 7-1 on the season. Brandeis got off to a quick start winning all three doubles matches. Faith Broderick ’13 and Carley […]
Men’s tennis splits games at Middlebury Invitational
The Brandeis men’s tennis team split their two matches at the Middlebury Invitational last weekend. The Judges opened the invitational with a 6-3 win against NYU before losing the second match to seventh-ranked host Middlebury College 8-1. Steven Milo ’13 led the Judges with an impressive 3-1 record in both singles and doubles action. In […]