Baseball wins three games this week, extends winning streak to four
The Brandeis baseball team started off this week’s games with a sweep of WPI on Saturday. The Judges outscored their foes, the WPI Engineers, with a combined 20-12, including a 12-5 rout in the first game. The Engineers started off the first game with two runs right away. Brandeis bounced back with a two-run homerun […]
Judges softball wins four straight on the road
Extending their record to 13-12, the Judges softball team spent the last week winning in all of their games on the road. It started with a rout against Lassell College last Thursday, with the Judges outscoring their foes a combined 18-6. In the first round of the double-header the Judges got off to a great […]
Brian’s basketball rankings: It’s not easy being green
1. Bulls (53-20): The Bulls haven’t looked quite as sharp this week with a double-digit loss to the 76ers and close games against the Bucks and Grizzlies. Nevertheless, they still hold a two-game lead on the Celtics for the top seed in the East and have a tiebreaker advantage over the Lakers if they happen […]
Gordy’s MLB rankings: The season starts now
Baseball season finally began last night signaling the start of the six-month race to the World Series. While spring training has had some very interesting moments, including a Brandeis alumnus reaching starting pitcher on the Astros, the records are reset, as are this year’s statistics. The records below are the final spring training records. While […]
BET journeys to ‘The Lonesome West’
Brandeis Ensemble Theater brought the quintessential family from hell to life in last week’s production of “The Lonesome West,” directed by Tony Rios ’11. The Irish-set play begins with siblings Coleman (Jen Schiller ’14) and Valene (Harry Webb ’12) burying their father, recently killed in a shotgun “accident.” Coleman and Valene’s relationship quickly deteriorates, with […]
Horny goat weed?: Addressing the vitamin craze
It was not until recently that GNC became the new adult candy store, but that’s just one occurrence in what’s really a larger trend. Increasingly, advertisements for strange pills and liquids that claim to have the essential vitamins and minerals we all need for youth, bigger breasts, strength and the like plague our television screens […]
Entertaining ‘Aquarion’ a more than adequate anime
A few weeks ago, I was introduced by the Brandeis Anime and Cosplay Association (BACA) to a new series I’d heard about but had never gotten around to watching. That series happened to be “Genesis of Aquarion,” more commonly known as “Aquarion” for short. At its most basic level, “Aquarion” is a mecha genre anime […]
Scenes from inauguration: Excerpts from the speech
Mr. Chairman, members of the board of trustees, Justice Gants, members of the family of our namesake, Justice Louis Brandeis, delegates from universities and learned societies around the world and your representative, my dear friend President Morty Schapiro, Presidents Reinharz and Thier, faculty, staff, students, alumni, supporters, parents, and all members of the Brandeis family […]
The man, the myth, the legend: BRONSTEIN WEEK 2011
“An obscene personality cult surrounded Bronstein” —Jon Landau ’68, Bronstein’s student and Bruce Springsteen’s former manager In 1987, on the 20th anniversary of the first Bronstein Week, Peter Gould ’67 wrote a letter to the student body to remind them of the meaning behind the spirit week. In January 1967, on the eve of a […]
Alum’s life passion to combat deforestation
“I could walk right over [to the counter] and come back with 30 different things that include palm oil as an ingredient,” Steve Patriarco ’08 said as we sat in Einsteins on Wednesday evening. Palm oil is the cheapest oil to produce and is used to make many products used every day such as packaged […]
April 1, 2011: April Fool’s Issue
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A commitment to Rwanda
Noam Shouster’s typical summer day began early in the morning. Armed with a bag of a dozen soccer balls in one hand, and arts and crafts and perhaps even a drum in the other hand, she started preparing for the arrival of 45 energetic 12 to 13 year olds. Yet this place was anything but […]
Softball wins 3 of 4
The Brandeis softball team has had a successful weekend after having two double-headers. The Judges managed a successful run, winning three out of their four games this weekend against Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and Salem State. March 25 saw the Judges lose 10-2. The first game started with the Judges trying to make an early […]
Judges split week with two wins and two losses
Just more than a week ago, the Brandeis baseball team tied its season-high 12 runs in a 12-6 victory against Salve Regina University. The Judges also tied their season-high 14 hits. Right-handed pitcher John McGrath ’11 led the Judges to victory despite a couple of early, unearned runs by the Seahawks’ Jason Sluberski and an […]
Creative Writing: ‘Storrs, Connecticut will fall off the face of the earth’
Sitting slumped against the window, I was fully aware of just how impossible it is to actually sleep comfortably on a bus. They have those foot stands for you, the ones that fold out and click into place, but let’s be real: you can’t sleep on a bus that easily. No one really sleeps; they […]
Radiating danger: radiation in our everyday lives
Last week, we examined the negative effects radiation can have on the body and discussed the recent scare in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Again, our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Japan, and there are still many ways you can help, such as by donating to the American Red Cross. As a continuation of […]
Almond brings joy to reading of stories
Author Steve Almond read excerpts from his short stories and essays on Wednesday at an event sponsored by the creative writing department. After the reading, he discussed his approach to his frequently comic work and his decision to begin printing some of his works outside the world of mainstream publishing. Almond has had six of […]
‘Digital get down, just you and me’
“I would swim up the Amazon with 45-pound dumbbells tied to my scrotum and Ellen DeGeneres’ queef as my air supply if it meant I could eat a seafood dinner with you over Skype on a dial-up internet connection. Not serious … Kinda serious …” read the message a Brandeis sophomore received on OkCupid, one […]
Hail to the chief: A Brandeis history of inaugurations
When Fred Lawrence delivers his inaugural address Thursday afternoon inside the Gosman Athletic Center, the Brandeis community will gather in a far different context than it did on an October evening 63 years ago inside the walls of Symphony Hall to hear Abram Leon Sachar, the first university president, deliver his. The times have simply […]
MLB power rankings: Rick’s picks
1. Boston Red Sox: The signing of top free agent Carl Crawford and the trade for Adrian Gonzalez completes the best lineup in the AL—pitchers will have nowhere to hide from Jacoby Ellsbury, Dustin Pedroia, Crawford, Kevin Youkilis (the Hebrew Hammer), Gonzalez and David Ortiz (Big Papi). Their rotation is stellar with Lester, Bucholz and […]