Volleyball off to a strong start
It seems the successful pre-season training has paid off for the Brandeis women’s volleyball team. The girls won their game Tuesday against Babson 3-0 to start off the season with a win. The set scores were 25-18, 25-22, and 25-14, all in favor of Brandeis. This win was especially significant because it was the 100th […]
Nadal changes do… can he seal the deal?
Many people have heard of Rafael Nadal, the Spanish tennis player, if not for his style of play on the courts then for his haircut. The one thing that has kept me from jumping on the Nadal train for all these years was the shoulder length locks that, by the end of every match, looked […]
Women’s soccer wins season opener
The image gallery for this game can be found here Women’s soccer started off their season with a big win against MIT. Sofia Vallone ’11, scored in the first eight minutes of play for the Judges, assisted by Mimi Theodore ’12, and Brandeis would not fall behind again for the rest of the game. In […]
Golf team in tough spot
The Brandeis men’s golf team has returned this fall thanks to a hard fought battle to stay alive last spring. Coach Bill Shipman has returned for his eighth season as head coach in addition to his role as head coach of both men’s and women’s fencing. Lee Bloom ’10 has taken over the role as […]
Life after Ben Premo: the men’s soccer team looks forward
It’s not every day that a player comes along who will end up in the record books as one of the all-time leading scorers for your team. It certainly isn’t every rookie who can put up ten goals and four assists in a season. Nor could it be expected that the same rookie would go […]
New program opens Gateway to knowledge
Only two first-year students had initially signed up to be in the talent show. It was the end of the summer and several Brandeis students were gathered with their instructors for an ice cream social, coupled with a talent show. It had been a summer filled with intense academic rigor and cultural enrichment, and this […]
Away on sabbatical: Not your average ‘vacay’
What do an American Studies professor’s interviews with feminist activists have in common with a computer science professor’s Stradivarius-model cello? And what does a Legal Studies professor’s research on Icelandic literature have to do with any of this? On the surface, not much. But none of these things would have come to be if not […]
On breathing
Take a breath. Give yourself some care. Evaporate your memory and pacify your lungs with air. Breathe in deep, and if you must choke, then choke on a stray sigh or two, not empty words your thoughts provoke. Swallow up your stupid tongue. Stop whispering your fears. You’ll gasp for air and waste your breath […]
Dr. George Tiller was murdered, and we need to talk about it
The media response to the murder of Dr. George Tiller, a Kansas abortion provider, has been nothing short of disheartening. Far too often the mainstream media has taken at face value the press releases put out by groups against reproductive rights. Anti-abortion organizations have almost uniformly condemned the killing while maintaining their opposition to abortion, […]
My big fat “Greek” repeat: ABC show’s season 3 premier fails to please
As the majority of us start off a new school year, ABC Family’s “Greek” starts off its third season right where it left off – and not in a good way. The previous season finale of the show, which centers around members of Greek life at the fictional Cyprus Rhodes University, left off with Rusty, […]
Hipster-baiting “Summer” soundtrack fails to inspire
“(500) Days of Summer” is a cute movie, but sometimes seems more like a marketing ploy targeted to young twentysomethings with affectations for vintage clothes and the Smiths. The premise of the film, centered around aimless and ambitionless postgraduates, has been around for decades, but it’s been somewhat aggressively commercialized since Zach Braff’s “Garden State,” […]
I was Rocky Horror-fied, and lived to tell about it
While standing in line among the slew of fanboys, drama geeks and cross-dressers at the Chelsea Clearview Cinema in New York this past summer, I found myself asking, “What do all of these people have in common?” and moreover, “What the hell am I doing here?” Only one occasion attracts a congregation of weirdness as […]
Women’s Cross Country
The women’s Cross Country team, like the men’s, will be coached by John Evans. “The women will really surprise people this year,” Coach Evans predicted. “While unranked in the pre-season poll, I think we have the potential to qualify for nationals and be a top 10 team in the country.” Marie Lemay and Grayce Selig, […]
Men’s Soccer
The men’s soccer team finished last season at 8-9-2 overall and are looking to improve their stats this season. Joining the men as head coach will be Coach Michael Coven, entering his 37th year in that position. He is the only current Brandeis coach to have lead a team to a national championship. Assistant coach […]
Men’s Cross Country
Coach John Evans will be leading the team for his sixth season this year. The men finished 20th at Nationals in 2008 and are hoping to do even better this season. In addition to six of the seven from that national level team returning this year, Devin Holgate ’11 will be joining the team. While […]
Looking to score: Women’s soccer
After ending the 2008 season on a very high note with a victory in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III New England championship, the Brandeis women’s soccer team is looking to continue their success. Forward Melissa Gorenkoff ’10, the tournament MVP, will share the duties of captain this year with goalkeeper Hillary Rosenzweig […]
Something Brandeis, something bleu
The sun flooded through the stained glass windows of Saint Pierre de Montmartre early that July morning. The weather – cool and sunny – was perfect. The church – picturesque. The backdrop – ideal. Outside, classical Romanesque architecture supported the famous church and tourists gathered to catch a glimpse of the happy couple inside, hoping […]
A seder in Berkeley: How a newly minted Marxist-humanist came to live with his Republican parents
When I told my parents that college had turned me into an atheist and a pothead, they were unconcerned. But when I told them I was left-wing, they got angry. They spent quite a few nights diligently repeating talking points, somehow relating the case to free markets to my ancestor’s flight from Poland. But I […]
Summer tunes from ‘Ye, Jay, and the gang
Summer music releases are oddly tied to the season; there’s a sense of lightness and fun in the best summer singles, a time of endless days and, for my summer, absurdly large amounts of sunshine. Summer is also the time of novelty songs, of disposable songs that breeze in with May and fade out with […]
Junot Díaz inspires doe-eyed freshmen
It’s Wednesday night in the Spingold Theater and the air is charged with anticipation. The crowd of students who had only arrived on campus three days ago were pulsing with excitement and even administrators sat on the edge of their seats. Believe it or not, this extraordinary show of enthusiasm was for none other than […]