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(04/12/16 3:25am)
Every Tuesday, the table tennis club members storm the Linsey Multipurpose Room in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center to practice and refine their skills in preparation for their matches. Coach Vincent Liung critiques and molds nine regular players while advising and guiding the remaining 20 beginner-level attendees. For two hours, the team battles it out in a room barely big enough to fit 29 players, let alone the two tables they need for actual play.
(04/05/16 7:30am)
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(04/05/16 7:16am)
Julieanna Richardson ’76 will deliver this year’s commencement address on May 22. Graduating members of the Class of 2016 will hear from Richardson — founder of The HistoryMakers, a video archive of the oral histories of African-Americans — who will also accept an honorary degree from the University alongside physicist and engineer Mildred Dresselhaus; historic-preservationist, attorney and grandson of Louis D. Brandeis Frank Brandeis Gilbert; filmmaker Agnieszka Holland; and artist Jack Whitten.
(04/05/16 3:51pm)
A Grateful Dead poster and a slew of polaroids decorate the wall. Sounds like an average student’s dorm room, right? Wrong. The backdrop of Brandeis Players’ production of “This Is Our Youth,” written by Kenneth Lonergan in 1996, is an Upper West Side New York City apartment inhabited by Dennis (Matt Hoisch ’19) and frequented by his friend Warren (Rodrigo Alfaro Garcia Granados ’18) in the early 1980s.
(03/29/16 6:07am)
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(03/22/16 6:52am)
In the highly contended race for Student Union president, current Student Union Vice President David Herbstritt ’17 came out on top, narrowly edging out Ford Hall 2015 activist Christian Nunez ’18 by two votes. Seven Student Union positions were filled in Thursday’s first round of spring elections.
(03/22/16 6:11am)
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(03/22/16 12:20am)
Last Tuesday, Adam LaRoche abruptly retired from Major League Baseball and walked away from $13 million with the Chicago White Sox. Sparking much controversy, the White Sox had told LaRoche that he must drastically cut down the time his son, Drake LaRoche, spent in the team clubhouse. The White Sox organization and others have tried to justify the new policy by arguing that playing baseball is a job and that in no other occupation would this sort of behavior be tolerated. While this is true, it ignores the fact that baseball — like all sports — is first and foremost a game.
(03/15/16 7:13am)
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(03/08/16 9:17am)
The University is behind its peer schools in energy reduction and recycling, Sustainability Manager Mary Fischer announced at the State of Sustainability conference on Tuesday night. The event also featured presentations from the various environmental groups on campus, including Students for Environmental Action and Brandeis Climate Justice.
(03/08/16 8:29am)
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(03/08/16 3:51am)
Arthur “Bud” Collins, the first tennis coach in Brandeis’ history and a respected member of the Brandeis Hall of Fame, passed away at the age of 86 on Friday.
(03/08/16 3:37am)
The most anticipated intramural league game commenced last Wednesday as the men’s basketball intramural league championship game pitted number-one seed Barmelo Xanthony against the second-seeded Team Swish.
(03/01/16 3:13am)
Throughout the decades, a fair share of superstars have electrified the NBA. Some elicit dropped jaws, some attract zealous fandom and some perform on such a level that their accolades appear to transcend reality. All of these are applicable for Stephen Curry. The Golden State Warriors guard and reigning Most Valuable Player is performing at such a level that he has many wondering how such historic greatness is even possible.
(03/01/16 5:25am)
As a Trustee, adjunct associate professor at the International Business School, alumnus, parent of alumnae and donor, I watched with interest the events on campus in the late fall when students took over the Bernstein-Marcus Administration Center as part of a concerted effort to make and negotiate for a set of demands.
(02/09/16 2:06am)
From proposals on the Massell bridge to meeting for the first-time at alumni events, Brandeisians have been coming together since the University’s inception — and each story is different from the last. According to the Office of Alumni Relations, about 10 percent of Brandeis undergraduate alumni marry fellow alumni. In an interview with the Justice, F. Patricia Fisher, the vice president of alumni relations, explained the phenomenon affectionately called “Louie Love.”
(02/02/16 6:58am)
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg H ’96 spoke to students, faculty, trustees, administrators and alumni last Thursday in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center. Ginsburg served as the opening speaker at a panel discussion on the legacy of Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice and the University’s namesake. The event kicked off the University’s semester-long celebration of the centennial anniversary of Brandeis’ nomination to the Supreme Court.
(02/02/16 6:36am)
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(01/26/16 7:49am)
The Brandeis chapter of Relay For Life held its annual fundraising event in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center on Saturday, raising over $40,000 for the American Cancer Society. The event ran from 5 p.m. on Saturday to 5 a.m. on Sunday and included performances from dance troupe KAOS Kids, a cappella group Rather Be Giraffes and comedy improv group False Advertising.
(01/12/16 4:37pm)
The men and women’s track and field teams returned with a bang at the University of Southern Maine Open, enjoying a slew of strong finishes at the non-scoring meet. The Judges picked up six wins across the meet in their first action since the University of Massachusetts Boston Invitational in early December.
