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The men’s basketball team went 1-1 this past week, defeating Emory University 76-68 in overtime on Sunday and losing to Rochester University 77-53 on Friday. With the victory on Sunday, the Judges improved to 7-7 overall and 1-2 in University Athletic Association play.
The men and women’s track teams ran impressive weekends hosting the Reggie Poyau Memorial Invitational on Saturday, as the men and women took first and second place, respectively. The women won the event on the strength of five individual wins while the men cruised to four individual wins on the afternoon.
In their first action back from winter break, the Brandeis women’s basketball team experienced an up-and-down week that featured match-ups against two University Athletic Association foes.
During the 1995 to 1996 NBA season, Michael Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to the greatest regular-season record in the history of professional basketball. During that season, which ultimately resulted in Jordan’s fourth championship in six years, the Bulls breezed their way to a 72-10 mark, resulting in the justified assertion that Jordan’s Bulls team was the greatest of all time. However, the Bulls’ place as the greatest ever is being aggressively challenged by the 2015 to 2016 Golden State Warriors.
The women’s basketball team could not hand conference-rival New York University their first loss of the season despite hanging with the Violets for a large stretch of the game, falling 57-46 on Saturday. The loss snapped a three-game winning streak for the Judges, after the team took victories in all three contests that were played over the break. The squad moves to 7-5 on the season overall and opens the year 0-1 in University Athletic Association play.
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The University opened a second round of online training for students on sexual misconduct prevention last week in a Jan. 6 email from Sexual Assault Services and Prevention Specialist Sheila McMahon. The first round took place from Aug. 18 to Aug. 27.
Last Wednesday, a group of scholars met to discuss the implications of the Nov. 13 terror attacks in Paris on the Islamic State’s future military and recruitment tactics. The event, which was organized by the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, was titled “ISIS after Paris.”
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The Judges split their two games this week, blowing out Simmons College 72-38 at home before losing 71-65 to Johnson and Wales University on the road.
The men’s basketball team went 2-1 this past week, defeating Salem State University 83-63 on Sunday, losing to Babson 75-65 on Saturday and beating Becker College 79-58 last Tuesday. With the victory on Sunday, the Judges improve to 5-2 overall.
The men and women’s fencing team hosted the Brandeis Invitational this past Sunday as the men recorded a 3-2 record, while the women finished 2-3. The tournament consisted of six rounds with competitors Johns Hopkins University, Drew University, Cornell University, St. John’s University, Yale University, Boston College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Last week, a representative of Joe’s Crab Shack announced that tipping is banned in its restaurants. It is the first major restaurant chain to do so, having implemented the ban since August. The decision made by restaurant CEO Raymond Blanchette could revolutionize the industry. In an interview with NPR, Blanchette called the practice of tipping “antiquated” and said that it fosters a hostile work environment. What he did not detail is the systemic racism, sexism and classism that accompany the restaurant business in the form of pay inequities, owed in no small part to tipping.
The Judges continued their strong start to the fencing season at their first Northeast Fencing Conference meet of the season in Providence, RI as the men posted a 5-0 record and the women went 6-0.
Forty-two years ago, the Supreme Court ruled, in a 7-2 decision, that blanket bans on abortion violated the implied right to privacy guaranteed in the 14th Amendment’s Due Process Clause in the landmark case of Roe v. Wade (1972). The Court reaffirmed the constitutional right to abortion in its 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey ruling, although a plurality of the judges also ruled that some “common-sense” limits, like 24-hour waiting periods and informed consent, did not violate the right to abortion.
The women’s basketball team captured the Brandeis Tip-Off Tournament, presented by the Park Lodge Hotel Group, to help head coach Carol Simon earn her 400th career victory. To win the title, the Judges defeated Eastern Nazarene College 70-54 on Saturday afternoon and was victorious by a score 81-38 over Mount Holyoke College. The title was the team’s third in four years.
Over 200 adjunct and contract faculty members have signed an official petition to form a union, which was submitted to the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday. The 230 faculty members are seeking to join the Service Employees International Union Local 509 through their Faculty Forward division, which represents non-tenure track faculty at colleges and universities throughout the Boston area.
An amendment to the Student Union constitution that increases the number of people on the Allocations Board and allows a presidential veto of any budget proposed by the A-Board passed in a vote that ran from Friday to Saturday with 243 votes in favor of the amendment, or 81 percent, out of 301 total votes.
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The 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal in April of this year crushed entire villages and left hundreds of thousands homeless — but a few structures in Nepal were still standing after the natural disaster.