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Brandeis’ baseball team continues strong season

(03/19/19 10:00am)

The Brandeis baseball team has continued their impressive season which started on March 4th. This week, the Judges defeated Wentworth Institute of Technology twice  with scores of 13-1 and 15-2. This double header occurred at the New England Baseball Complex in Northborough. These wins bring the team to a winning streak of three games in a row and a record of 7–2 overall. Currently the team has a batting average of 0.380,  an on- base percentage of 0.457, a slugging percentage of 0.643 and has played in nine games.


Tennis team returns after two devastating defeats by Middlebury and Colby

(03/19/19 10:00am)

The women’s tennis team is now 4–4 for the season. Following recent wins  against California Institute of Technology, Redlands Community College, Bates College and Colby College; and losses against Bryant University, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and MIddlebury College, the ladies have yet to face any University Athletic Association opponents. Their first UAA matchup will be against New York University on April 6, but for now, their next opponent is Wheaton College on Saturday.




Special election winners declared

(03/12/19 10:00am)

The Student Union held a special election to fill several open positions in the Senate and Judiciary on Thursday. Nancy Zhai ’22 won the open Senate position for the Class of 2022 in a four-way race. Zach Kern ’21 and Nakul Srinivas ’21 won seats for the Class of 2021 in an uncontested election, while Yuechen Ta ’21 won the Senate seat for International Students, also uncontested. Rachel Sterling ’21 and Jack Ranucci ’22 were elected Associate Justices of the Judiciary in a seven-way race for the two seats. 


Noted critic listens to music

(03/12/19 10:00am)

    “My composing is inspired by movement and the contemplation of change,” composer Josh Levine began. He presented at the Music department’s composition colloquium, “Metaphors and Musical Means” on March 7 in the Slosberg music center, and music students lent an ear to Levine’s experiences at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. Levine shared his fondness for the unity of memory and imagination, thinking about the physicality of musical performance and the way we as listeners identify with it emotionally. However, I was only available to attend the first half of the lecture, during which he discuss his thesis, a recorded flute and piano duet he played for students. 





Editorial: University's use of Duo is a cumbersome attempt at security

(03/12/19 10:00am)

Recently, Brandeis launched Duo Security's two-factor authentication system as a means of protecting students and their personally identifiable information, according to a Nov. 6, 2018 article in the Justice. This new security measure is a required part of the transition to Workday, the new human resources software that the University is currently adopting, per a Nov. 20, 2018, Justice article. Student employees are the first students required to enroll in Duo, with many students being required to enroll by March 7. After logging into a Brandeis website, students must confirm that log-in through a push notification, text or phone call, a step added by Duo. T. While this is a commendable first step to improve cybersecurity, the decision to implement such software has several oversights, and this two-factor system might not be accessible to all students.


CEOs' personal identities are inseparable from their companies

(03/12/19 10:00am)

“You’ve really put a big investment in our country. We appreciate it very much, Tim Apple,” Donald Trump said as he commended Apple CEO Tim Cook at an American Workforce Policy Advisory Board on Wednesday. This hilarious slip of the tongue caused Tim Cook to change his Twitter name to “Tim” with the Apple logo next to his name, according to a Thursday CNBC report, as well as his official profile. The meme volcano erupted with references to well-known entrepreneurs ‘Bill Microsoft’ and  ‘Elon Tesla,’ as well as colonial forebears ‘George America’ and ‘Ben Electricity.’ Technically, Elon’s surname should be a hyphenated PayPal-Tesla-SpaceX, but let us not get too pedantic. This is not the first time Trump has flubbed a CEO’s name in a corporate Freudian slip; last March he introduced Marilyn Hewson of Lockheed Martin as “Marilyn Lockheed.”


Understanding student experience

(03/12/19 10:00am)

Brandeis launched its second Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Violence on March 5.   The anonymous survey — sponsored by the Office of Provost and the Division of Student Affairs — seeks to understand how sexual violence manifests in the Brandeis community. An individualized link to the survey was sent to every undergraduate and graduate students’ Brandeis email and will be active until 11:59 p.m. on Friday, March 22.


One game postponed and two more cancelled for the baseball team

(03/12/19 10:01am)

The Brandeis men’s baseball team is gearing up for their 2019 season. The team’s first game against the University of Massachusetts Boston was postponed and will be made up on April 23. Their games scheduled for Sunday against Western New England University were cancelled due to bad weather conditions, resulting in the team playing only two games out of the five on their schedule. But the limited number of games played bodes well for the Judges: their overall record is 2–0 after their first two games against Bowdoin College, according to the Brandeis Athletics website. 




Judges’ season comes to an end on Saturday with a 7-game losing streak

(03/05/19 11:01am)

The Brandeis Women’s Basketball team has concluded their 2018-2019 season with a final record of 7–17 overall and a 3–11 record in the University Athletic Association. The Judges had an record of 4–9 at home in the Red Auerbach Arena and 3–8 away, according to the Brandeis Athletics website.


Both men’s and women’s teams continue to serve their opponents

(03/05/19 11:03am)

The Brandeis men’s and women’s tennis teams have many matches ahead of them and many chances to rank well in University Athletic Association Standings. The men, currently posting an overall score of 5–1, have defeated the California Institute of Technology Beavers, Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens, the University of Redlands Bulldogs and the Bryant University Bulldogs. The women, on the other hand, posting 2–2, have defeated the Beavers and the University of Redlands Bulldogs this season. 




Lurie Institute names Starr Fellows

(02/12/19 11:00am)

The Lurie Institute for Disability Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management announced the inaugural class of its Nathan and Toby Starr Fellowship for the spring 2019 semester in a Feb. 7 press release. The program aims to “foster research expertise and expand understanding of disability policy among undergraduate students,” per the same announcement.