Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
On Dec. 11, 2005 the Student Union Senate passed a resolution in response to changes in the senior speaker selection process made by the Office of the Dean of Student Life. The changes in the process were part of an overhaul of the commencement ceremony in an attempt by the administration to shorten its length.
Student leaders complained this week of a lack of consultation from the administration regarding the recent drafting of a university policy regarding alcohol at student-run events.
Zionist Organization of America threatens boycott
The Zionist Organization of America has threatened to boycott the University due to its employment of Khalil Shikaki, a scholar at Brandeis Crown Center for Middle East Studies, according to New York newspaper The Forward. The ZOA accuses Shikaki of ties to Islamic Jihad. These alleged ties were the subject of a Tuesday article in The New York Sun. University President Jehuda Reinharz said there is absolutely no evidence of any offenses, according to The Forward.
This past week brought mixed results for the Brandeis swim teams. On Jan 14, the Men and Womens Swimming teams traveled to MIT to take on MIT and Colby College. MIT and Colby both dominated Brandeis. Four days later, Both Brandeis teams rebounded from their previous loss to defeat Clark University.
Three days ago, Brandeis suffered its first loss of the season to conference rival NYU. Tuesday was Brandeis chance to rebound from that heartbreaker by taking on regional arch-rival Tufts.
Brandeis winning streak came to a halt at ten games, as they fell to division rival New York University 70-68 on Saturday. The Judges were 4 wins shy of tying last years 14 game unbeaten streak.
Baseball
A lawsuit is currently underway over who owns baseball statistics. Major League Baseball says that they own all of the statistics. A company that runs leagues for fantasy sports is arguing that once a game ends, those statistics become historical facts that can be used to power fantasy games.
NFC Championship: Seattle versus Carolina
The Seattle Seahawks are probably the least respected number one seed within the last couple of years. Several experts have stated several times even as the Seahawks picked up win after win that they were not a reliable team to root for in the playoffs, they were too soft and will likely fall apart.
Last weekend, the top two American Football Conference teams predicted to go this years Super Bowl XL were defeated when the Indianapolis Colts fell to the bottom-seed Pittsburgh Steelers and Tom Bradys ten-game perfect playoff record was shattered by the Denver Broncos.
The average student at a liberal arts school such as ours generally has two choices regarding which path to take through four years of quality education offered by top-notch staff and state-of-the-art duck and squirrel population all for the measly sum of $120,000 plus room, board, meal plan, student activities fee, technology fee, gratuity fee, gratuitous fee, duck and squirrel maintenance fee, presidential salary fee, and the fee to round off the number of fees to 10 so theyll fit in the Excel spreadsheet used to print and calculate the final fee.
