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Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.

January 2009 Issue

Swimmers Swamp Clark

The Brandeis swim team honored their senior class Wednesday night with a clean sweep over hosts Clark University with the men claiming a 133-104 win and the women taking the event 129-114. Robert Morse ’09 was among the multiple winners on the men’s side. Morse took the 200 and the 500 yard freestyle with season-best […]


Anat Ben Nun wins UAA Athlete of the Week

Anat Ben Nun ’09 earned UAA Athlete of the Week honors in track and field after provisionally qualifying for the NCAA’s in the triple jump. Ben Nun hopped, skipped, and jumped to a first place distance of 11.66 meters (38 feet, 3¼ inches) at the Bowdoin College invitational. Her jump was 3.5 inches short of […]


Spotlight on Boston

Beantown Beauty Gala: Friday, Jan. 23, 8 p.m. 185 West Newton St, Boston Put on your best duds and have fun at this fundraising event! Local models will put on a fashion show at the beautiful Jorge Hernandez Cultural Center in order to raise money for standup2cancer.org. Artist Lexcano will also perform. $20 for General […]


What’s going on at Brandeis?

Ponytail and Jeffery Davis: Saturday, Jan. 24, 9 to 11:30 p.m. Cholmondeley’s Got nothing in your wallet except lint? That’s okay, the Punk, Rock and Roll club is hosting a free concert! The frenetic energy of Ponytail will get your blood pumping and Davis’s witty lyrics will get your brain thinking. Proscenium: Sunday, Jan. 25, […]


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King’s dream lives on in students’ passion

Most college students have heard at least excerpts of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, which was delivered during the famous 1963 March on Washington. But how many can say they’ve felt the spirit of King’s words truly embodied in the actions of modern youths? As part of the […]


Why cover songs deserve our respect

Pulp’s song “Bad Cover Version” dismisses Jarvis Cocker’s ex-girlfriend’s replacement relationship as “a bad cover version of love,” like “the Stones since the 80s” and the “later Tom and Jerry, when the two of them could talk.” Best of all, though, the video is a bad cover of “Bad Cover Version”; celebrity impersonators each perform […]