Top ten date spots near campus
10. Dinner at Legal Sea Foods, Kendall Square A Boston original, Legal Sea Foods is a place to experience real New England cuisine. It’s the type of place you can go to in jeans or a little black dress. It can be a little pricy but its well worth it. The Kendall Square location is […]
Who dat rocking at the Super Bowl?
The Who has always been a band with a particular place in my heart. I was still in middle school when my aunt bought me a copy of “Tommy” from a New Haven record store, and the combination of raw rock ’n roll power and genuine spiritual yearning that make up the group’s classic albums […]
Ringing in the Lunar New Year
The Brandeis Chinese Cultural Connection (BC3) ushered in the year of the tiger this past weekend with its annual Lunar New Year celebration, which proved to be a hit. BC3 held the event a week in advance of the actual holiday, as February 14, the day that will mark the beginning of the 15-day celebration […]
Chapin’s big weekend leads women to sweep
The Brandeis women’s basketball team entered the weekend looking to rebound from last Sunday’s disappointing loss to Emory. Now, after a pair of crucial home victories, the team is looking toward the future. The Judges played their way to a 71-52 victory over the rival Case Western Reserve Spartans on Friday night. They followed that […]
Women’s fencing beats #8 Penn at Eric Sollee Invite, men’s team struggles
The women’s fencing team beat eighth ranked University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and UAA rival New York University (NYU) on Saturday as part of their 5-0 sweep at the Eric Sollee Invitational in the Gosman Athletic Center. After losing 5-4 decisions against Penn in the sabre and epee, the Judges won the foil with Vikki Nunley […]
Men’s basketball sweeps UAA play over the weekend
At the start of Sunday’s game against the Carnegie Mellon University Tartans, forward Terrell Hollins ’10 was 18 points away from becoming the 27th player in team history to reach the 1,000-point plateau. With less than five minutes left to play Hollins make a lay-up to grab his 1,000th and 1,001st points of his career, […]
Libraries— the times they are a-changing
Imagine you’re doing research for a paper. Let’s say that you, like many of your Brandeis counterparts, are in a rush and don’t have time to fool around, zigzagging between the myriad of bookshelves, searching for that book in a haystack. Or, let’s say you’re a little research-shy and aren’t exactly sure where you should […]
Brandeis joins Haitian relief
Brandeis students have joined the relief effort to assist in rebuilding Haiti after the destruction caused by last month’s earthquake, which affected more than three million people. The earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12 killed more than 200,000 people and left many more homeless and in urgent need of medical care. Brandeis Haiti Relief […]
‘Ribbon’ leaves audience tied up
Evil begets evil. That’s the central message in Austrian director Michael Haneke’s “The White Ribbon,” a film that examines the causes of World War II. Instead of weaving a typical war narrative around this thematic exploration, however, Haneke sets his story decades before the war, focusing on one tiny village that serves as a representation […]
Rose 200th birthday celebration inspires conversation about activism
Thursday marked the 200th birthday of Ernestine Rose, and the Women’s Studies Research Center celebrated with a party worthy of the activist, who spent her life fighting for human rights. Paula Doress-Worters, a WSRC scholar and author of a book about Rose, presided over the affair, speaking about activism, what causes people to become activists […]
Oscar no golden boy
For better or worse, the Academy Awards have been a huge part of the pop culture landscape since 1929 when the first ceremony—lasting only 15 minutes and with less than 250 people in attendance—was held in Hollywood. Taking a cue from Punxsutawney Phil, the golden man named Oscar poked his head out on Tuesday and […]
ICE at ’Deis: Graduate compositions impress
“This time in your career, you don’t get a chance to write for a group like that.” It’s Wednesday, and Christian Gentry (GRAD) has just finished teaching a course in country music and society. I’m making him late for his 2 p.m. seminar, but he doesn’t seem to care as he starts discussing his philosophy […]
Men’s basketball defeats Rochester
The men’s basketball team extended their winning streak to five games with a win Friday night over the University of Rochester Yellowjackets before falling on Sunday to the Emory University Eagles. The Judges moved to 12-3 on the season and 3-2 in University Athletic Association play. The Yellowjackets got the first basket of the game […]
Women’s basketball splits the weekend
The Brandeis women’s basketball team opened up home University Athletic Association play this past weekend. The Judges bested the Rochester University Yellowjackets on Friday night 55-48, but fell 73-65 to the Emory University Eagles on Sunday afternoon. With the split Brandeis moved to 9-6 on the season and 2-3 in conference play. The Judges got […]
Alumni share Brandeis experience through new video challenge
In an effort to keep alumni connected to the university and to solicit donations, the university’s Department of Development and Alumni Relations has instituted a Brandeis “Alumni Video Challenge.” Inspired by entrepreneur and producer Daniel Adler ’85 and Emmy Award winning film and TV producer Stanley Brookes ’79, the video challenge asks alumni to “tell […]
Outer space on the upper campus
Day in and day out, students and professors alike take on the Rabb steps. Most, however, are unaware that beneath those steps lies the Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Lab. Under the direction of Professor James Lackner (PSYCH) and Professor Paul DiZio (PSYCH) the lab was built in 1982 to study how people adapt to foreign […]
An album of ‘Contra’-dictions
The problem that’s plagued Vampire Weekend as a band has been that, while audiences might enjoy music that can be played while yachting, that won’t change the resentment and distrust towards those select few that dare to be part of a yacht club. And though I have no idea if any of the members of […]
Of fists and fist pumps
MTV’s “Jersey Shore” has come and gone, and it was undoubtedly a goldmine. Before the season was even halfway over, the cast members were making appearances with Jay Leno, getting paid upwards of $5,000 to make club and bar appearances and receiving condemnation from commercial sponsors and government officials alike. They even graced the pages […]
Things that go BMOP in the night
If you attended a performance of the Boston Symphony Orchestra last fall, chances are pretty good that you heard one or more of Beethoven’s symphonies. The BSO, widely recognized as one of the world’s most elite orchestras, presented a complete set of these vaunted works throughout October and November and has several additional performances scattered […]
Drowning in ‘The Deep End’
It’s hard to tell what inspired ABC’s decision to produce and air the new legal drama, “The Deep End,” which premiered Thursday night. Perhaps the corporate execs figured that, with their success with “Grey’s Anatomy,” focusing on another profession would be just as profitable. Whatever the reason for green-lighting this project, I doubt it’s because […]