Hang ten with the ‘Deis surfing club

To continue our look at the less conventional yet interesting sport clubs, we turn our attention this week to the Surfing Club. According to the club description, the group is committed to the exploration and enjoyment of the sport of surfing. Now come on, who hasnt imagined surfing the beautiful waters of Hawaii? Who hasnt wondered, at least once, what it would be like to simply ride a wave, to connect with the water without having to intentionally dive in? The Surfing Club, while perhaps unable to make a dream trip to Honolulu come true, does offer a unique experience in learning the art of surfing – an experience full of information, fun, and an ocean full of memories.

Brandeis digitizes materials with BLC

Brandeis, as a member of the Boston Library Consortium (BLC), has agreed to partner with Open Content Alliance to digitize public domain materials and make them available on the Internet.

Knowledge should be open and free, stated Assistant Director for Resource Sharing Evan Simpson, who acts as project leader in Library and Technology Services effort to digitize public domain materials.

ResLife asks Ziv residents to remove American flag hanging outside building

Residents of Ziv 130 have recently been asked by Residence Life to remove a large American flag they have hung outside of their window with a sign beneath reading these colors dont run.

Ari Tessler 08 and Abe Male 08 decided to hang an American flag from the windows of their neighboring Ziv suites last week.

UCC passes changes to history major

The Undergraduate Curriculum Committee approved changes to the history major proposed by the department in a meeting on Oct. 30. The new requirements will go into effect with the Class of 2012.

Currently, a history major consists of eight courses in any area or time period. The new major would require an additional course and a substantial research paper, UCC representative Zach Pyle 09 said in an email.

Brandeis to host Innocence week

Brandeis Universitys Innocence Club will host Innocence Week from November 12-16, a student-run series of events seeking to educate the community about the unjust convictions of innocent men and women in the American justice system.

The weeks events will feature a display of the 208 exonerees Monday through Friday. Students involved in the planning of the week will also be tabling in Usdan throughout the week with a petition to be sent to Massachusetts officials to expunge the records of exonerees.

The Brandeis Roosevelt Fellows:

Roosevelt Fellows are peer academic advisors who assist first year students with areas such as class selection and any other general academic questions pertaining to first years. They get paid a stipend of 500 dollars annually for their services.

Power Shift ’07 conference

News Flash: Were freaks! announced Ben Goldfarb, my workshop leader, last Sunday morning. He was right.

As he pointed out, how many college students wake up by 9 a.m. on a Sunday to attend a workshop on using the media to the advantage of climate change activism at a different university than their own, six states away?

Fame! I Want to Live Forever!

Kobe Bryant went to my high school. They retired his jersey on the wall of our gym, so when you were standing around and pretending to play badminton, youd look up and see a plaque commemorating the fact that he scored 5,000 points in a game or whatever. Kobe was something of a hometown hero, but when he got hit with rape charges during my sophomore year, the jersey came discreetly down. My brain-dead English teacher used him to explain the concept of hubris when we read Oedipus Rex. After the media storm around the trail calmed, he came and visited, and my friend took a picture of him for the school newspaper. That was my first run-in with celebrity.

The Essential Friendship Companion

Its not always easy to determine who your real friends are from the people who are just looking out for themselves. This is why I have created the Essential Friendship Companion. By using this intelligent piece of literature, you will be able to decode who your real friends are from the people who are actually just frauds.

Sexiled: Good vibrations

Awkward is one way to describe it, passionate is another way;

then again, maybe its not either of those. Maybe, for you, its actually comfortable and unexciting. But for me, its definitely the best of both worlds. I dont have to shave and he doesnt have to try to do something he is, uh, not going to be able to finish.

When I set out to write this article, I wasnt thinking that you could call services. I was thinking only about calling your boyfriend or girlfriend and rising to the occasion. Oh, how narrow-minded I have a tendency to be. I forgot all about the phone sex industry.