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

Okapi! Lessons from the savanna

So heres another week gone by, and Ive just got this to say: Chill, Brandeis! It seems that controversy is in the air instead of the cooler days of fall I had been waiting for. Lately, the campus press has been abuzz with much fuss about allegedly stereotypical and pejorative statements. Insults are met with bigger insults;

anger begets anger. Must be the humidity. Well, if we cant bring on cooler weather, maybe its time for cooler heads;

well need the energy for the midterms…

Highs, lows, and in-betweens

Last weekend was a trial by fire for the volleyball squad, and they returned slightly singed. Brandeis went 1-2 at the Amherst Invitational Tournament, beating Trinity College on the first day (30-26, 30-23, 25-30, 26-30, 15-12) before losing a tough one to Middlebury (30-21, 20-30, 30-18, 31-33, 7-15) and then collapsing against Amherst (30-15, 30-19, 30-22). This weekends tournament brings the Judges record to 5-7.

XC runs into Harrier Classic

On Saturday at the Harrier Classic both Mens and Womens Cross Country teams demonstrated their depth and consistency. The men finished third out of 7 teams while the Women finished sixth out of a field of eleven. But those numbers should not be taken too seriously because the Harrier Classic was an open-meet and these student athletes competed against such running academies as the Boston Athletic Association and the Greater Boston Track Club.

Stewart scores lone goal as Judges defeat Colby

Shelton Stewart 06 placed himself closer to making Brandeis history by scoring his 37th goal, moving him into fourth place on Brandeiss career goal-scoring list. He is now only one point away from 100 in his career. The goal came on a direct free kick from 24 yards away, as the Judges defeated Colby-Sawyer 1-0. Brandeis improved its record to 5-2, while Colby-Sawyer dropped to 3-5.

Golf ties Tufts at ECACs

The Brandeis mens golf team tied Tufts University with an aggregate score of 333 (45 strokes over par) on September 27. The team competed at the par-72 Hampden Country Club in Hampden, Mass., with Alex Botwick 08 shooting a 36-44-80 (+8), tying him for 27th place of 90 players overall. Josh Levine 06 finished in 37th place with 41-40-81 (+9), Dan Shani 08 ended in 51st place shooting 41-42-83 (+11), and Ralph Harary 09 fired a 75th place score of 43-46-89 (+17).

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