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The men’s and women’s tennis teams played three matches over the weekend, going 2-1 overall. The women came away with two blowout wins, while the men struggled in their lone match against New York University, falling 6-3.
One of the most interesting subplots of this excellent National Basketball Association season has been the race for the eighth seed in the Western Conference.
It’s 5:30 p.m. on a Monday or Thursday, and most students are predictably heading to Sherman or Usdan, hoping to beat the rush. They’re probably not thinking about squash — the kind served with a racket and ball rather than a plate and utensil, that is.
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After its cancellation in December 2016, the Riverside Shuttle has been reinstated for the spring semester, according to a campus-wide email from the Student Union on Friday.
While women have made their way to the top of the business world, there is still work to be done before workplace gender gaps are closed, according to Joann S. Lublin.
Thirty years ago, President Ronald Reagan stood in front of the physical incarnation of Cold War division and reaffirmed his view of a global world led by the United States — a shining city on a hill. At the risk of throwing away years of progress made with the Soviet Union, Reagan stood tall and issued a direct demand: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Students Jenny Ho ’20 and Julianna Scionti ’20, representing the Brandeis Drawing Club, came before the Senate for club recognition. Ho and Scionti particularly highlighted a desire to supply art materials to students who face financial barriers in affording studio art course fees. Their organization is a revival of a previous studio art iteration, the Figure Drawing Club. When asked by Student Union Vice President Paul Sindberg ’18 how the club will avoid a decline like the one seen with the Figure Drawing Club, Ho and Scionti responded that they will focus on well-rounded recruitment of successive class years. In a unanimous vote, the Senate approved to recognize the Brandeis Drawing Club.
The men’s basketball team posted a 1-2 record over break, winning their final game of the season. Closing out the month with a win against New York University, the team bookended the tough month of February with victories and punched in their final overall record at 8-16.
The women’s basketball team wrapped up its season on Feb. 25 with a victory over New York University, snapping a five game losing streak. The previous weekend, the Judges fell to Washington University in St. Louis 61-49 and to the University of Chicago 69-66.
This past weekend, the Brandeis Track and Field teams concluded their first rounds of the indoor postseason. Several individuals competed at two important qualifiers for nationals, the Eastern Conference Athletic Conference in Ithaca, New York, and the Tufts University Last Chance Meet in Medford, Massachusetts. The short distance sprinters went to New York to race, while the longer distance runners took the shorter trip to Tufts. Despite the team being separated by such a significant distance, the Judges seemed to run with the same unity and teamwork they usually have when together. At the ECAC, Jack Allan '20 earned All-ECAC honors for his stellar performance. Other runners performed well in both meets, showing off the Judges’ athletic abilities.
Both Brandeis University tennis teams took the court this week, coming away with major upset victories over ranked competition. Each team has had a phenomenal start to the season, with the women entering the weekend ranked 21st and the men ranked 32nd in Division III. Their significant victories this weekend add to the momentum they have generated so far this spring and recall some of the program’s best seasons in recent memory.
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Last Tuesday, the Senate confirmed Betsy DeVos for education secretary by a 51-to-50 vote. Vice President Mike Pence cast the tiebreaking vote, marking the first time in history that the vice president acted as a tiebreaker for a cabinet nomination.
It has been over three weeks since Donald Trump was inaugurated as our nation’s 45th president, and he has largely kept up with some of his most radical campaign promises. In these three weeks, we have also seen bitter and divisive partisan attacks, such as silencing Senator Elizabeth Warren on the Senate Floor or early-morning cabinet confirmation hearings; D.C. continues to give the appearance of sharp division along partisan lines. However, there are several issues that many Democrats and Republicans can agree on in the age of the Trump administration.
The men’s basketball team was unable to stave off another losing streak after dropping their second and third consecutive games.
The Brandeis men’s and women’s track and field teams spent their weekend at Boston University as they competed in the Valentine’s Invitational on Friday and Saturday.
The women’s basketball squad had a tough weekend, dropping both of its two games and extending their losing streak to three games in a row. The women fell 74-56 against Carnegie Mellon University on Friday and 71-68 versus Case Western Reserve University on Sunday.
On Friday, Jan. 27, exactly a week after taking office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order which threw the American immigration system into chaos. Families were separated for hours, protesters gathered in large numbers at major international airports, and judges acted quickly to block parts of the order after suits were brought by groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union. Trump’s executive order suspends refugee resettlement in the United States for months, except in Syria, from which refugee resettlement is indefinitely suspended. In addition, the executive order temporarily bans entry for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Purportedly, the ban will help bolster national security and protect Americans from terrorism. In reality, Trump will accomplish little more than wrecking the lives of properly vetted refugees, making things even harder for Muslims and refugees in this country and casting the lives of green card and visa holders abroad into disarray. Students at Brandeis are no exception; some are afraid that they may not be allowed to return from study abroad. Whether Trump’s executive order will stand up in the courts is unclear, but we should hope that it does not. The ban is dangerous and unethical, but furthermore, it signals that the nation itself has turned its back on its most cherished values.
The men’s basketball team had a solid weekend, ending their four-game skid and taking revenge on one of their conference opponents.