Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
</i>”][/caption] In the American university system the first days of college are considered especially confusing. At Brandeis, the dedicated students who assist the first-years are members of an elite squad, known as the Orientation Leaders. These are their stories. As a first-year I loved orientation: stumbling from one seemingly spontaneous event to the other, not […]
Dear Leah and Morgan, I’m starting my sophomore year this year, and I’m a little worried about something, and wanted to know if you could help. Last year, I had a really close group of friends on my hall, but I was really focused on my schoolwork and didn’t branch out very much. This year, […]
When her mother started making her take piano lessons “too many years ago to count,” Ellie Hutchinson ’12 hated going and later practicing. It wasn’t until high school that playing piano joined singing and theater as something she enjoyed. Now, going by the name Ellie Ann (her full name is Elizabeth Ann Hutchinson), she uses […]
Speaking of British middleweight Herol Graham, trainer Eddie Shaw once quipped, “He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.” Surely, Muhammad Ali would disagree; the champ made a habit of composing poetry to mock his opponents (“This kid’s got a left, this kid’s got […]
On Aug. 15 Jim Thome joined the 600 home run club. In consecutive at bats Thome hit home runs 599 and 600 against Rick Porcello and Daniel Schlereth of the Detroit Tigers during an American League Central match up at Comerica Park in Detroit. Thome became just the eighth player in Major League history to […]
It’s been an eventful baseball season so far. Three no-hitters, 3,000 hits for Derek Jeter, 600 homers for Jim Thome and there’s still a lot of baseball left to be played! As we enter the month of September, we embark on the stretch run. Many of the divisions look to be locked up, but there […]
When summer started, one of the four major sports leagues was two months into a lockout. Now, at the start of the academic year, one lockout has ended while a new one enters its third month. As the NFL season that almost didn’t happen starts it’s interesting to look at the effects of the lockout […]
Just in time to welcome the Brandeis class of 2015, Hurricane Irene crashed down on the first day of first-year orientation, forcing faculty and staff to make quick safety decisions and rearrange the orientation schedule. As Governor Deval Patrick declared a state of emergency in Massachusetts last weekend, Brandeis canceled the first day of move-in […]
