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The most important rule in chess is associated with the only word that chess reliably contributes to everyone’s vocabulary – checkmate. A player wins if the other player’s king is threatened and escape is impossible. Chess metaphors are understandably often used in discussions of war. But the rules of chess and war are very different […]
Heard about the Fairness Doctrine controversy lately? Rush Limbaugh, conservative political commentator and “intellectual leader” (read: really loud voice) of the Republican Party, wants you to think that the Fairness Doctrine is coming back. On Election Day, after hearing Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) appear on Fox News to offer a defense of the Doctrine, he […]
Newspapers across the country are suffering. The combination of an ailing economy and the presence of the internet has resulted in drastically reduced revenues, and has forced many papers to close. The Rocky Mountain News in Denver is one of the latest and most well known newspapers to shut down due to financial trouble. The […]
As was bound to happen, Taylor Swift and I have had a falling out. Do not get me wrong, the small country portion of my soul still enjoys her music, but the rest of me is starting to have a huge problem with her attitude, most specifically how she relates to men. Taylor likes to […]
I absolutely, positively, hate social niceties. If there is one thing that I detest most about our modern society, it is the fact that we have to delude ourselves with the presentation of norms, dedicated to presenting ourselves as courteous and pleasant. But these devices only turn us into disingenuous automatons, because we are masking […]
Photo gallery for the Career Fair. We’ve seen it in the cutbacks at school. We’ve seen it in the statistics on the number of people losing their jobs every week. The hurting economy is all around us, but we have not yet been subject to the full force of what President Obama has called “the […]
After a season of unprecedented success, the Brandeis University Mock Trial Association will head to Easton, Pennsylvania next week to participate in an Opening Round Championship Site tournament. Finishing in the top six teams in Easton will allow the Brandeis team to compete in the National Championship Tournament in Iowa. Last year was the first […]
The season had begun with a very disappointing loss; it ended with a convincing victory on the road. Kevin Olson ’09 made five three pointers and cemented his status as the number one three point shooter in the NCAA as he helped the Judges overcome a shaky first half to stake the 63-44 win at […]
The Brandeis women’s basketball team fell short against the New York University Violets in New York on Sunday in the last game of the regular season, ending their four game winning streak. In the end NYU outscored the Judges for a 62-49 UAA victory. With the loss Brandeis ended their season with a 17-7 record […]
This week the Brandeis women’s basketball team received an at-large berth in the NCAA Division III Tournament for the fourth year in a row. While this would have been exciting enough, they were also selected for the first time to host the first round of play, with Western Connecticut State University, Mount St. Mary’s College, […]
