The spirit of Yom Kippur Forgiveness? I think not!

Many members of the Brandeis community approached me last week asking for forgiveness, with the dramatic day of Yom Kippur coming on the horizon. For my non-Jewish friends in the audience, this is the time where we are supposed to ask for forgiveness for all of our awful sins from G-d (including my lust for Katie Holmes) and each other (including Katie Holmes. Yes, Katie, I am sorry for stalking you).
But that brings up a good point. What exactly does one say to someone who pleads and begs for forgiveness? Who is going to say no? You sit there and think, Hmmmwhat drugs is this person on? And the answer is, Sure. Of course Ill forgive you! when in reality, all you are thinking is, Just go away!
Who really is going to have the nerve and gall to say No, I dont forgive you!? Jeez, that person must be an incredibly selfish and rude person. And that person is, well, me.

The Red Sox lost…and thats okay with me.

If youre a Yankees fan, theres really no need to rub it in. I know the deal. We lost. We were swept, no lessthree in a row. Couldnt even survive the first series. I know;

I watched the games and cringed at the replays. So you dont have to boast that the Red Sox have finally been put back in their place.

Villanueva Named New Dean of Admissions

The search for the new undergraduate Dean of Admissions has finally come to an end Tuesday, Sept. 27. In an email to the Brandeis community, Senior Vice President of Students and Enrollment Jean Eddy announced that Gil Villanueva will fill this position.

118 PCs, so far, booted off network for AIM virus

118 computers have been shut off the network due to infections known as botnets over Instant Messenger as of Oct. 12. According to UNET systems administrator Elliot Kendall, after a computer becomes infected it calls home to a central controller and waits for instructions. Depending on the whims of the botnets owner, that can be anything from launching a distributed denial of service attack against an internet site to sending spam or phishing email, to monitoring the keyboard to steal usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, etc