Baseball wraps up UAA tournament play, returns home with win
With Opening Day just around the corner, Major League teams are warming up for the upcoming season under the glow of Florida sun. For a few days, the Brandeis baseball team joined their major league idols in the Sunshine State. While Grapefruit Leaguers were fighting for roster spots, the Judges were fighting for bragging rights. […]
Men’s basketball ends the season in the Elite Eight
The Brandeis men’s basketball team reached the sectionals, or the Elite Eight, in the NCAA Division III Championship last Saturday where they fell to the hosting Williams College Ephs 71-57. The Class of 2010 will graduate as the winningest seniors in school history, taking part in 83 wins, four NCAA berths and two appearances in […]
Softball finishes second UAA Championships, split first home series
The Brandeis softball team finished the University Athletic Association Championship on Sunday with the best conference ranking since 1999. With a 5-3 record in the conference, the Judges tied for second place with the Washington University of St. Louis Bears. The Emory University Eagles took the top spot after going 6-2. Their solid performance garnered […]
Her Campus: a collegiate’s guide to life
Imagine a national magazine that is geared towards college students, one that doesn’t center on celebrity gossip and instead provides advice on dorm life and even has a section devoted just to Brandeis. Take a look at Her Campus, an online magazine written by college students for college students, and you’ll find just that. Her […]
Newest ‘Final Fantasy’ is 13 levels of fun
Two weeks ago, I previewed an assortment of games set to be released this month. After playing some of them, it is only fitting that I attempt to provide a comprehensive review. Don’t worry, I’m not going to give away the plot, I’m just going to focus on some key elements. This review covers “Final […]
Creating ‘Chasms’ in chillwave genre
The blogosphere has become the new arbiter of ephemeral slang and blink-and-you’ll-miss-it microgenres, but that doesn’t mean you can’t also find some fantastic music. The newly-coined microgenre labeled “chillwave” or “glo-fi” is the perfect example; it’s a genre with heavy ambient and synthesizer influences that also combines elements of lo-fi and simplistic melodies, with vague […]
No time like ‘Cocktail Time’
In cooperation with New York’s Primary Stages, the Brandeis Theater Company last weekend presented the debut of playwright Rogelio Martinez’s “Cocktail Time in Cuba,” a play which juxtaposes one journalist’s identity crisis against the background of a Cuba potentially in upheaval. In the hopes of reenergizing his lagging career, journalist Michael Thompson (Ben Rosenblatt) arrives […]
It’s all greek to me: university policies unclear on Fraternities and Sororities
On April 11, the Student Union will host a half-marathon across the Brandeis campus. The event is being organized by Union Vice President Amanda Hecker ’10 and Phi Kappa Psi President Justin Meltzer ’11. The Facebook event created to advertise the event will say the race is being “cosponsored” by both the Union and the […]
Baseball spends the week playing in Florida
The Brandeis baseball team is participating in the University Athletic Association Tournament down in Sanford, Florida this week. The team will play six games total between Tuesday March 9 and Saturday March 13. The Judges kicked off the tournament against the Emory University Eagles. In the top of the first the Eagles got their first […]
Men’s basketball advances to Sweet Sixteen
After two exciting victories last weekend in the first and second round of the NCAA Division III tournament, the Judges have moved onto sectional. This is the second time Brandeis has reached the Sweet Sixteen under head coach Brian Meehan. The Judges kicked off the weekend in Rochester on Friday night when they faced the […]
Constitutional Review Report
Proposed Amendment 1: Student Union Government restructuring • Part one would replace the legislative powers of the Union Senate into an Assembly and Club Support Board. • Under the committee’s proposal, the Vice President would be internally elected by the Assembly—merging the position with executiv senator. • The Union Judiciary would become […]
While abroad, Brandeisian finds hope amid Chilean disaster
As she slept in her hotel room on the last night of her study abroad orientation in Valparaiso and Vina del Mar, Chile on Feb. 28, Quinn Lockwood ’11 felt the shocks of one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded. “We certainly felt the shaking. [It was] very scary, and the hotel sustained some damage, […]
Little wonder in ‘Wonderland’: Quirk for quirk’s sake?
The experience of watching “Alice in Wonderland,” the newest film from zany director Tim Burton, in 3-D was like falling down a rabbit hole and being bored by the fall. Sure, the situation itself is odd enough, but there are no significant surprises. My attitude may be a result of overly high expectations and my […]
Why do we love naked golden men?
An ungodly runtime, hosts with mediocre jokes, long clip montages with no apparent purpose and sometimes dubious winners. Every year, critics and viewers alike lodge these complaints against the annual Academy Awards, yet tens of millions still watch the ceremony every year—and that’s just in the United States alone. Why? I asked myself this question […]
Liquid Latex lays bare annual show
Unsurprisingly, the Levin Ballroom was packed to capacity on Thursday night, with all seats filled and numerous people standing in the back of the room, all in anticipation of Liquid Latex’s 10th annual show. Every year, students get on stage and prance about with nothing on but latex and a lot of creativity, which always […]
‘Dido’ hits the right notes
The first performance of Henry Purcell’s definitive work, the opera “Dido and Aeneas,” occurred in 1689 at a London girl’s school. Three hundred and twenty-one years later, it can still sound fresh and lively if it’s presented by an organization with as much talent as the Brandeis University Department of Music. Last Sunday’s staging of […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]