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Softball team ranked 14th in nation in Division III poll

The Brandeis University softball team has been on fire all year, and their dream season continued with more highlights this past week. After unleashing two more monster performances at Wesleyan, the Judges are beginning to receive significant national attention. And while the success belongs to the entire team, two of Brandeis’ stars have been singled […]

Women’s tennis team finishes 6th at UAA Championships

Thanks to a hard-fought win against the Case Western Reserve University Spartans last Saturday, the Judges were able to finish sixth in the University Athletic Association with a 1-2 conference record. “A sixth place finish overall is solid, but a little below our goals,” head coach Ben Lamanna told The Hoot in an e-mail. “The […]

One win, two losses, three postponements for baseball team

Losers of seven straight games, and nine of ten overall, the Brandeis baseball team entered weekend play starved for a win. At long last, the hunger was satiated. Still, even this didn’t go entirely according to plan. With scheduled games against Framingham State and Wheaton College postponed (and no makeup dates yet announced), the Judges […]

Golf team heads into UAA Championships with momentum

The Brandeis golf team finished in third place out of 16 teams at the Worcester State Invitational on Monday in their last match before the UAA League tournament. Charles Sacks ’11 led the Judges, finishing in a tie for seventh place out of 78 athletes, with a score of 76 at four-over-par. Sacks has been […]

‘Spelling Bee’ worthy of buzz

There is no rite of passage quite as wholesome and all-American as the spelling bee. Brandeisians got the opportunity to relive their own spelling bee days with Tympanium Euphorium’s presentation of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” a one-act musical comedy that humorously probes the neuroses and dilemmas that plague one group of eager […]

Klionsky paints the Russian Jewish experience

Artist Marc Klionsky evokes the Russian Jewish immigrant experience in his expressive portraits. His paintings and etchings depict the hardships and joys he and his generation lived through in the Soviet Union and later the artistic freedom he found in America. Brandeis students had the chance to view his emotional pieces in a variety of […]

Chatting with filmmaker Chico Colvard

Director Chico Colvard has received great acclaim for his inaugural film, the documentary “Family Affair,” which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it was acquired by Oprah Winfrey’s new cable network OWN. “Family Affair” documents his family’s coming to terms with the discovery that Colvard’s father had sexually abused his sister, a revelation […]

‘South Park’ celebrates 200th episode with controversy

“South Park,” a show whose earliest origins stem from a college project of creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, celebrated its 200th episode last week. Topics covered so far this season include sex addiction, banned literature, medicinal marijuana and Facebook. Episode 200 and its follow-up do not fail to entertain as the denizens of South […]

Battling the lobsterbacks at Lexington

I shuddered when I saw the Red Coats. Though more than 200 years shielded me from physical harm, the mere sight of their lobsterbacks made me shiver as I watched the battle re-enactors march onto the Lexington Battle Green Monday morning. I knew that their muskets were loaded with blanks; that the soldiers were actors […]