Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
PROVIDINCE, RI – In an intense, fast-paced, physical match-up, the Brandeis men's basketball team saw its season come to a close at the hands of the Rhode Island College Anchormen 70-67 Saturday night in the second round of the Division III NCAA tournament in Providence, RI.
Over February break, the Brandeis Mock Trial team competed at its regional competition at Yale University. Brandeis has four competitive teams and one of those teams, known as “Team Twix,” went 5-2-1, beating teams from New Hampshire, Yale, and Lowell during its match play.
Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND) is planning to meet with activists from across the northeast in New York City on March 10 to help bring attention to the issue of genocide in the Sudan. In protest to Chinas support of the Sudanese government, the activists will make a human chain linking the Chinese and Sudanese missions to the United Nations (UN), a chain that will require about a thousand people to complete. The minds behind the human chain, which will be symbolic of how the Chinese government is indirectly funding the genocide with its investment in the region, hope to utilize Chinas vulnerability in the international media due to its hosting of the 2008 Olympics next year.
Last Wednesday at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, The Grownup Noise delighted the crowd with an hour of charming and propulsive rock and roll. The quartet brought its sunny melodies to the small basement venue, which seemed better suited to an emo-core throwdown or a subversive political meeting. From the jangly opener Grey Skies, to the whimsical closing number Vampire Love Song, the Noise thrilled the audience with expert musicianship and songcraft.
I couldnt make it to either of the Lifetime Achievement Award winners movie question and answer sessions, but I hear that Patricia Neal had a lot of gossip to dish about actors shed known in the fifties and sixties, and that Roy Scheider is a really nice guy. The Scheider part was interesting;
the movies one knows him best for are two: Jaws, which causes my mother to remember something about a wet black t-shirt, a soundtrack and, oh yeah, that mechanical shark;
and All That Jazz, which makes me cringe because its a musical, if written by Bob Fosse. Neals major accomplishment besides being a really good, gorgeous actress whos won an Academy Award is a marriage to Roald Dahl, author of children's books including Matilda and The B.F.G.
Q: My roommate and his/her partner are all over each other all the time when Im in the room and its so awkward! What should I do about it?
~Eyes Wide Shut
Dog named Lassie saves family from fire
Members of the Whitson family were asleep when their house caught on fire and parts of it quickly burst into flames one morning at 7:30 am. Fortunately, their dog Lassie quickly ran around and woke everyone up. With the exception of a few first degree burns on one of the family member's shoulders, the family was unharmed. As noted by the family's daughter, not present at the time, “[Lassie] saved their lives.”
Students for Environmental Action (SEA), the Campus Climate Challenge (CCC), the Energy Savings Program (ESP) and the Brandeis Environmental Sustainability Team (BEST) are sponsoring an event throughout the month of March to increase energy savings awareness. Do It in the Dark is a competition run in first-year residence halls with the mission to decrease energy usage and have each residence hall compete against the others in the process. The prize will be awarded at the end of March to one residence hall in each first-year quad, and will consists of a Lizzys ice cream party, Amazon gift certificates and other prizes as well.
Dear Editor:
Brandeis lately seems to be not so much of a “hoot”. First the invitation to Jimmy Carter, who throws around the word “Aparthied” without even knowing the true definition of it, and now, inviting that disaster of a Jew, Norman Finkelstein. I am wondering what the purpose of inviting such hateful, loathing misinformed “scholars” to your institution is? I know Purim is coming, but this is not a bit funny. The constant shoving of anti-Jewish, anti-Zionist, anti-Israel programs on a campus that was supposed to support the fundamentals of a Jewish homeland seem to have gotten lost in the mix. I am disgusted by your lack of good taste, and mostly by the perpetuation of promoting the lies and propaganda on a campus that at one time instilled a love for Jewish life, history, and culture. What a turn you have taken. I grieve the loss of yet another place where Jewish kids did not have to apologize for being born Jews.
To the editor:
John Spritzlers[1] vitriolic anti-Israel letter (Professor Shulamit Reinharz Full of Contradictions) itself is a huge distortion of history. The very fact that we must debunk denials of Israels earned right to exist is sad proof that anti-Semitism in this form is still alive and well. Denial of this right is anti-Semitism because it denies the Jewish people a right that all other nations have. Israel is the only legitimate country that is subject to denial of its right to existthat the Jewish state is singled out for an accusation that would be considered ridiculous if applied to any other state demonstrates that this is pure anti-Semitism.
