Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
1. Lakers (45-19): The Lakers are 7-0 since the all-star break and while they have shown symptoms of malaise throughout the season, they are the two-time defending champions. The Lakers have proven that when they care about a game, they are nearly impossible to beat. Until someone pries the Larry O’Brien trophy out of Kobe […]
This past week, conflicts between Israel groups on Brandeis’ campus once again made national news when Brandeis Hillel rejected Brandeis Jewish Voice for Peace’s request to be included under the Hillel umbrella of Jewish organizations. The statement made by Hillel, rejecting Jewish Voice for Peace’s request, is as follows: “At this time Hillel at Brandeis […]
The men’s basketball team had two members selected for All-UAA honors. Guard Tyrone Hughes ’12 of Roslindale, Mass., was a second-team All-UAA selection, while center Youri Dascy ’14 of Fall River, Mass., was an All-UAA honorable mention. Hughes ended the season third in team scoring with 8.5 PPG and first on the team and third […]
If you ask a group of Brandeis students to tell you how much electricity their residence halls consume each day, you’ll probably get a lot of blank stares and, if you’re lucky, a few ballpark guesses. But if you ask students at Harvard, or at Yale, or even at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, […]
Grayce Selig ’11 will be traveling to Capital University in Columbus, Ohio to compete in the mile-run event at the 2011 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III championships. Selig is currently ranked fifth in the nation in the mile run. Earlier this season, she set a Brandeis-record of 4:54.82, her best time of the […]
This week’s rankings are broken up by spring training leagues. Since all teams have played between 10-14 games it makes sense to pay some attention and see what teams are doing. The records are valid as of 10 p.m. March 9. Grapefruit League (Florida) 1. Washington Nationals (7-3): Surprisingly, to me at least, the Nationals […]
People in the West have the tendency to project their own values onto individuals that are completely unlike themselves. They are inclined to assume that everyone in the world wants ulimately the same things that they want, despite differences in culture, history, religion and other characteristics. A recent example of this phenomenon is the American […]
The American Jewish community has historically recognized the need for vigorous internal debate. But recently, the demand to support Israel has outweighed our commitment to listen to one another. This was made clear when Brandeis Hillel voted on Monday to exclude Jewish Voice for Peace (J.V.P.) from their organization. Following guidelines recently issued by national […]
Remember when you were young, and you told jokes to your friends to make them laugh? “Why did the chicken cross the road?” was never really all that funny. So you cleverly thought up variations to the chicken joke … —Why did the chicken cross the playground? To get to the other slide. —Why did […]
Faculty members voted Thursday to change the university’s pass/fail system to allow students to count a class in which they received a “P” for a graduation requirement. Students could begin taking courses pass/fail for a requirement this fall if the proposal brought by the University Curriculum Committee (UCC) is passed on a second reading at […]
