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On Saturday, March 9, at the Red Auerbach Arena in Waltham, Mass., the Brandeis University men’s tennis team showcased their talents by winning their first dual match of the season against the Franklin Pierce University Ravens. The Judges won their first seven matches, with a doubles sweep and singles players in positions one through four prevailing over the Ravens.
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Center Aedan Using ’24 was selected as the 2024 University Athletic Association Men’s Basketball Defensive Player of the Year. He averaged 1.2 blocks per game and 1.2 steals per game, ranking seventh and eighth in the entire conference, respectively, alongside 6.2 rebounds per game, which ranks eleventh.
It’s that time of the year again. For some, it’s just another month. Maybe you’ll go on a nice vacation for spring break. However, for the college basketball superfan, it’s finally time for March Madness. March Madness, the nickname for the widely televised men’s and women’s NCAA Division 1 Basketball Tournaments, is a spectacle filled with levels of intrigue and suspense unrivaled in the sports world. Every NCAA Division 1 conference tournament winner receives an automatic bid for entry, meaning that underdog squads are pitted against the juggernauts and titans of college basketball. Some notable upsets include #16 seed Fairleigh Dickinson’s shocking dismantling of #1 seed Purdue in the 2023 men’s tournament, and #16 Harvard triumphing over #1 Stanford in the 1998 women’s tournament. Stunning wins against the college basketball blue-bloods during this upcoming tournament may add to this list of improbable victories, but in most cases, the championship comes down to a battle of college basketball behemoths. As a result, here are a few of the favorites to watch for in the men’s and women’s March Madness tournaments.
This past Wednesday, March 13, an exciting new post-baccalaureate art exhibition opened in the Dreitzer Gallery. Titled “Visceral Reflections,” the exhibit features four artists and a variety of art mediums. The four featured artists are Brianna Howard, Kelly Mangan, Pavol Roskovensky and Noelle Ventura. Each artist explored different themes, often drawing on their own backgrounds to help influence their work. At both entrances to the gallery there is a table with a black binder on it which contains information on each artist, the themes within their work, and their artistic process.
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LeBron James, a living basketball legend, added another remarkable chapter to his illustrious career last Saturday at Crypto.com Arena. The Los Angeles Lakers star achieved an unprecedented milestone by becoming the first NBA player to reach 40,000 career points. The accomplishment took place during the Lakers’ game against the Denver Nuggets, a special night in memory of James and fans in attendance around the world.
Content warning: This article includes mentions of rape.
Content warning: This article includes mention of rape.
In celebration of International Women's Month, the Business Department partnered with the Hiatt Career Center's Rise Together Mentor Network and Forté Foundation, a female leadership program, came together to present a Women In Leadership Alumni Panel on March 7 at the International Business School. Six influential female alumni joined students to share their experiences in leadership positions and how to navigate male-dominated fields.
On March 7, the Journalism program hosted a discussion with Boston Globe Associate Editor Adrian Walker and former Boston Globe reporter Evan Allen to discuss their multimedia project “Murder in Boston.” The project included three parts released in December 2023: A nine-part podcast, an eight-part narrative series and a three-part HBO documentary. Both Walker and Allen had lead roles in the project: Walker, who was part of the Pulitzer-Finalist Spotlight team that examined race in Boston, headed the podcast portion, and Allen, who was part of the team that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for the narrative portion, also participated in the creation of the project. Profs. Ann Silvio (JOUR) and Neil Swidey (JOUR) moderated the discussion.
The Oklahoma Softball program and their head coach of 29 years, Patty Gasso, are arguably some of the greatest of all time when it comes to collegiate softball. Their 71-game win streak began in 2023 as they ended their season with 53 straight wins to close out the regular season. The Sooners then capped it off by winning the Women’s College World Series in 2023 and kept their win streak going until the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns broke it with a 7-5 victory on Sunday, March 3, 2024. Oklahoma’s last loss before March 3 was over a full year ago to Baylor in 2023, a statistic that has cemented their legacy in softball history as one of the greatest programs of all time.
Students gathered in the Shapiro Campus Center Wednesday evening to honor the Palestinians that have died in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, resulting in impassioned speeches, disdain towards the University and minor conflict with onlookers. The University’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine released a statement of return on Feb. 29. The group was derecognized by administration in November “because it openly supports Hamas” and “engage[d] in conduct that harasses or threatens violence,” according to Vice President of Student Affairs Andrea Dine in a Nov. 6 email to SJP. The destruction in Gaza since Israel declared war on Oct. 8 has spurred student activists to action in universities around the U.S., and Brandeis is no exception. In their first public pro-Palestine gathering since the Nov. 11 protest that ended in the arrests of seven people, SJP and the Revolutionary Student Organization expressed their support of the Palestinian people and their condemnation of Israel.
Sam Dienstag ’24, TJ Carleo ’26, Rebecca Suarez ’26, and Haley Nash ’24 earned UAA Athlete of the Week honors for the weeks of Jan. 22, Feb. 5, Feb. 11 and Feb. 25.
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The University’s former chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine posted a “statement of return” on Instagram on Feb. 29, announcing their intent to continue as an organization despite the branch’s derecognition as a club last semester. Along with the Revolutionary Student Organization, who organized the Nov. 10 protest that ended in seven arrests, SJP posted about a “Vigil for Palestine” that will take place in the Shapiro Campus Center on March 6.
On Feb. 7, presidential candidate Marianne Williamson announced the end of her run for the Democratic nomination. The decision came in the wake of her second place performance at the South Carolina primary, trailing incumbent President Biden’s 96% win by a 94% difference, since she secured 2.1% of all the votes. Williamson only defeated Minnesota representative Dean Phillips, and by less than 1%.
In the coming days of Feb. 13 through Feb. 17, the thought-provoking and moving immersive art installation, “Deconstructed Anthems: Massachusetts” will be debuted at the Cyclorama in the Boston Center for Arts. “Deconstructed Anthems” is a series of exhibitions created by artist, professor and Director of the Poetic Justice Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab Ekene Ijeoma. Ijeoma, whose background is in technology and interaction design, develops multimedia artwork designed to expose the inequities that riddle the United States and challenge his audience to change them. Through “Deconstructed Anthems,” Ijeoma depicts the immense scale of mass incarceration, as well as the gross racial disparities ingrained in the U.S. carceral system. Each site-specific iteration of “Deconstructed Anthems” uses data from the U.S. Department of Justice, combined with conceptual, multimedia art, to give voice to the over 1.5 million (disproportionately Black) individuals incarcerated in the U.S. since 1925. Ijeoma’s exhibit highlights the hypocrisy of the U.S. being the “land of the free” while having such high incarceration rates by centering the installation around the classic “Star Spangled Banner.” The exhibit combines an algorithmic composition programmed by Ijeoma and numerous musicians who methodically omit notes while playing “Star Spangled Banner” to reflect the escalation in national incarceration rates from 1925 to the present. Ijeoma achieves this by using a custom piano “retrofitted with hardware and software programmed to hold down keys at the same rates in the composition as a pianist is playing it.”