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Archive for March 7th, 2008

The vegan kind of life

It’s 2 o’clock on a Monday. Lower Usdan and Sherman have just closed for lunch. But Emily Gelb ‘11 has only eaten a Luna bar, despite having woken up at 9:15 and gone to two classes. Gelb, unlike a typical college student, hasn’t skipped a meal because she is pressed for time, or because she’s […]


Brandeis students help fight AIDS epidemic

5 seconds. Not much more than a heartbeat. Not much more than a slight turn of the head. Not much of anything. Yet within those 5 seconds, a person in a different part of the world just died. Be it a father, a mother, a son, or a daughter. Be it an Aunt or an […]


Environmental Studies Field Semester: no mere walk in the park for Brandeis students

The trips taken by last semester’s first Environmental Field Semester participants involved visiting a lot of farms and parks, but that’s where the similarities to a first grade field trip end. Introduced last semester by Professors Laura Goldin, Brian Donahue and Dan Perlman, the Environmental Field Semester was designed to educate students about the environment […]


Activists gather for STAND conference at Brandeis

Several months’ worth of preparation by the Brandeis chapter of STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition finally culminated into the final national STAND conference in the string of six held in February. STAND, which uses advocacy, education, and action to help end genocide in Darfur and prevent it elsewhere, saw remarkable success in hosting the northeast […]


Speaker discusses experience as flight hostage in Jordan

The Brandeis Zionist Alliance brought author David Raab to speak Tuesday about his book Terror in Black September, which recounts his experience and subsequent research about the Dawson’s Field Hijacking of September 1970. Seventeen year-old Raab spent the summer of 1970 in Israel with his family and boarded TWA Flight 741 from Frankfurt with his […]


Women’s B-ball off to NCAA’s

After a season of ups and downs, dips and bends, unbelievable highs and head smacking lows, the Brandeis Judges Women’s basketball came out on top of their topsy-turvy season with a victory at home and its third straight NCAA at-large berth awaiting them. “I’m really excited,” Jaime Capra ’08 stated. “I think it’s a great […]


Strong defense will lead Men’s team to a win

With the Men hosting the tournament after one of their best years in the program’s history, they come in as the presumptive favorites. In tournament time though, anything can happen; Cinderella teams grow from the patch while the favored princes turn into toads. Tonight’s match against Lasell could go either way for Brandeis if they […]


‘Deis distance squads run well at Open NE Championships

Just one week away from the Indoor UAA Championships in Cleveland, Ohio, the Judges Track and Field team sent a small squad to compete at the Open New England Championships last weekend. The meet took place on the banked track at Boston University. Although most of the squad used the meet to prepare for UAAs, […]


Number four truly will be missed, even by a Vikings fan

Brett Favre’s retirement is finally upon us. I personally find this announcement very hard to believe, after watching his gun slinging ways since my days in elementary school. As a Minnesota Vikings fan, it was impossible not to love to hate the irresistible Favre, a true gamer. The NFL will finally say goodbye to the […]


Keys to victory for the Women’s Basketball team Friday night

Having watched the Judges since January of this year, I have to say that they are an interesting squad., capable of dominance and equally capable of arousing sheer despair. With a tough match up coming up against Southern Maine, here is what I see as vital to a Judges’ victory in no particular order: 1. […]