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This past weekend at the Duke Invitational the Brandeis women’s fencing team struggled, going 1-4 with three of their four losses against nationally ranked teams. The Judges’ only victory was an 18-9 win against Air Force, while their four losses came against top-ranked Penn State 20-7, eighth-ranked Temple 18-9, 10th-ranked Duke 22-5 and North Carolina […]
The Brandeis women’s basketball team has further fallen down the UAA standings after dropping both games this past weekend, a 53-48 loss to Emory and a 53-37 loss to 11th-ranked Rochester. Two weeks ago, the Judges were hoping to establish momentum after notching their first UAA victory; however, they proceeded to go 0-4 on their […]
Brandeis track and field athletes turned in exceptional showings at the 2012 Boston University Valentine’s Day Invitational during the past weekend. Distance runner Kate Warwick ’12 placed 10th in the 5,000-meter run at 17:03.44 at the meet for men and women, placing her sixth among collegiate runners and second among Division III competitors. It was […]
You may be surprised to hear that I am not unhappy being a midyear. I know that it has been discussed many times, but as a receiver of the midyear acceptance letter, I can’t emphasize the confusion and insecurity that follows its delivery. I spent the many months separating my acceptance to the university and […]
A recent conversation with a friend got me thinking about intelligence. We were discussing neuroscience when she told me that she’s not very good at it. This confused me. I know that neuroscience is an intense subject to study, but my friend is intelligent and does well in her classes. Yet she described herself as […]
Chicken is a game between two parties in which both take positions and attempt to make the other yield, with the worst possible situation being neither party yielding. A simple example would be two cars driving down a single-lane road. As they approach each other, both sides try to get the other to move to […]
With Valentine’s Day around the corner, a movie like “The Vow”—with its tragic, life-changing, world-shaking romance—was more than expected. The movie, directed by Michael Sucsy, is doomed to predictability from the start, with an eye-locking moment, a chocolate-filled first date, an invitation to move-in and a strange declaration of love. Nonetheless, it meets its chick-flick […]
As an editor of The Hoot, I have an obvious interest in the way news is produced and consumed in our country. Many people have predicted the downfall of the newspaper as Internet news sources have all but overtaken the traditional form. A book that I’m reading for one of my classes this semester gives […]
Conventional wisdom tells us that we’ll forget 90 percent of everything we learn in college. When we say this as a joke, laugh and complain about how unfortunate it is that we cram textbooks-worth of information into our brains and pour them out into a blue-book. Rarely do we take a moment to reflect on […]
Remember when Chris Brown hit his then-girlfriend, Rihanna? I do. It was the eve of the 2009 Grammys, and Brown and Rihanna were both scheduled to perform the next day. According to a search warrant, obtained and released by TMZ, they were driving when Rihanna read a text message from a woman with whom Brown […]
