One win, two losses, three postponements for baseball team
Losers of seven straight games, and nine of ten overall, the Brandeis baseball team entered weekend play starved for a win. At long last, the hunger was satiated. Still, even this didn’t go entirely according to plan. With scheduled games against Framingham State and Wheaton College postponed (and no makeup dates yet announced), the Judges […]
Women’s tennis team finishes 6th at UAA Championships
Thanks to a hard-fought win against the Case Western Reserve University Spartans last Saturday, the Judges were able to finish sixth in the University Athletic Association with a 1-2 conference record. “A sixth place finish overall is solid, but a little below our goals,” head coach Ben Lamanna told The Hoot in an e-mail. “The […]
The college experience x 4
For my family, everything seems to exist in fours. There are four siblings, four colleges, four college tuitions and four careers in the making. And we wouldn’t have it any other way (except the four college tuition fees, of course). Unknown to many Brandesians, I’m a quadruplet, born second. At home, being a quadruplet, or […]
And the nominees for Best of Brandeis are:
Pinch Me In “Pinch Me,” a film by Chris Lavery ‘10 and Avi Swerdlow ‘10, a man named Jon leads a humdrum existence. He spends most of his time sleeping, has a less than enthralling job and an awfully noisy neighbor. Luckily, he has a wonderful girlfriend. There’s only one problem: she disappears every time […]
Faculty Awards: Prof. Maura Jane Farrelly (AMST)
Michael Walzer ’56 Award for Teaching Award: Given every year to a tenure track faculty member who combines scholarship with inspired teaching. Farrelly is the 28th recipient of the award. Biography: A graduate of Fordham University with an M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Emory University, Farrelly joined the Brandeis faculty in the fall of […]
Faculty Awards: Prof. Elizabeth Ferry (ANTH)
Lerman-Neubauer ‘69 Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Award: This prize, established by Trustee Jeanette Lerman at the time of her marriage to Joseph Neubauer, requires its recipient to be not just an exceptional teacher, but also one who has had a significant impact on students’ lives as a mentor, advisor and friend. Biography: […]
Matchup: Faculty and staff take down students
Thursday’s Hoops for Haiti game was one for the ages. With Prof. Jacob Cohen (AMST) coaching the faculty and staff team to a 37 to 31 victory over the students, it was red shirts versus blue shirts as the stars of the Brandeis community displayed their talent, in all of its forms. The vocal leader […]
Faculty Awards: Prof. Melissa Kosinski-Collins (BIO)
Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching Award: Kosinski-Collins is the 24th recipient of the prize. Biography: Kosinski-Collins earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, graduating summa cum laude with Phi Beta Kappa honors. After earning her Ph.D. in Protein Biochemistry from MIT, she […]
Golf opens up spring season with good performance
The men’s golf team hit the links this past weekend in their first tournament of the spring season, the UMass-Dartmouth Hampton Inn Invitational at Allendale Country Club. In their first competition in over five months, the Brandeis team came out strong, tying for sixth place out of 18 teams with Nichols College. Both schools had […]
Ready or not, here comes summer
The end of the semester might be quickly approaching, but sophomore Alice Konghende’s summer plans are still up in the air. “I may do an internship. I may go to Germany to see my sister. Or I may be here to do some research for a professor,” she said. “Or go to Ohio. That’s an […]
Baseball continues to struggle, goes winless this week
It proved a forgettable week for the Brandeis baseball team. Of six scheduled games, only four were played. And, despite the continued offensive prowess of Judges leftfielder Chris Ferro ’13, the Judges lost all four matches. They have suffered defeats in seven straight games and now sit at 8-18 on the year. On April 9, […]
Softball takes five of six
The Brandeis softball team improved to 20-5-1 after winning five of their six games this week. The only loss, which came at Bowdoin on Sunday afternoon, snapped the Judges seven game winning streak and gave them their first loss in 12 games. Brandeis has moved up in the rankings, now No. 20 in country in […]
Let’s have a ‘Date Night’
Though Steve Carell and Tina Fey slip comfortably into the role of a mundane married couple in the new comedy “Date Night,” they never lose the comedic genius that made their past movies like “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” and “Mean Girls” hits. Instead of playing the loser characters with which they’ve become associated, Carell and Fey […]
3D is not for me
The last three years have undoubtedly witnessed a boom in the number of 3D films arriving at cinemas across the country. Hollywood studios have continually restated their commitment to the technology, asserting that it is the way of the future—3D televisions will apparently be released within the next year—but all I see is a gimmick. […]
Brandeis theater community shows it cares
Many students attend Brandeis in the hopes of gaining an education that will allow them to make a positive impact on the world in the future, but a group of Brandeis undergraduates proved last weekend that there’s no reason students can’t start now. More than four hundred students gathered in Levin Ballroom on Saturday night […]
From recent to renaissance: Timeless a cappella
A cappella music is represented by twelve separate student-run groups at Brandeis, but apparently that’s not good enough for the Department of Music. Last Saturday, the Brandeis University Chamber Choir had the sheer audacity to hone in on the a cappella racket, simply because none of the established ensembles perform sixteenth-century French music. Can you […]
Manginah hits right ‘Notes’ with new CD
Four years after the release of their last album, Brandeis a cappella group Manginah has released its latest CD, “Notes in the Wall,” a collection of the group’s most popular songs from its present repertoire. The album serves as a good representation of the group’s live performances, mixing classic Israeli pop with a very modern, […]
Novelists make the political personal
The Creative Writing Department hosted the first of a three part series on Tuesday, April 13, with a discussion titled “The Personal and the Political: Historical Novels and the Jewish Experience.” During the hour-and-a-half talk, novelists Anita Diamant and Jennifer Gilmore spoke to an audience of Brandeis students and community members about their most recently […]
Baseball goes 4-4 during break, loses on Thursday
Playing baseball is an everyday commitment, and spring break is no exception. With eight games scheduled over the course of the nine day interlude, classes proved the only thing missing from the Brandeis baseball team’s calendar. Brandeis broke even, going 4-4, and doubled its total number of wins on the season. More impressive, however, was […]
Epee Fencer Will Bedor ’10 places 24th at NCAA’s
Will Bedor ’10 finished off his collegiate fencing career by posting a 24th place finish at the NCAA Championships on March 27 to 28 at Harvard University. Bedor fenced four years for the Judges and was used to competing against the best Division I fencers in the country. At the NCAA Championships last month, most […]