Girl Talk walks the walk

No one could have possibly been prepared for the spastic dancing onslaught that is Girl Talk, and no one could have possibly been happier with the performance last Saturday night at Chums. The coffeehouse should have been renamed Club Chums in honor of Girl Talks Punk, Rock & Roll, Club-sponsored performance as the lucky two hundred or so audience members danced on every available surface in the glow of the strobe light. The hour-long set of spastic mash-up dance heaven by Gregg Gillis, the mastermind laptop musician who has been making interracially composed songs under the name Girl Talk since 2002, made up the best dance party that Brandeis has ever seen.

Horton hears a Hoot: Hannah King on Seussical

In the waning days of Seussicals rehearsal period, director Hannah King 08 took a few minutes to talk with The Hoot about her soon-to-open show…

How to keep yourself warm this winter

Its getting to be that time of year again. Its the time to pack away our tanks tops and board shorts and break out the snow boots and winter jackets. Hailing from the Northeast, Im already prepared for the cold weather (and even if I forget something at home, I can drive 45 minutes to get it). However, for those of you who arent used to temperatures below seventy or even the concept of changing seasons, here are some ideas on how to keep warm over the next few months.

Mission: Orgasm

Q: I am having some trouble making my girlfriend orgasm from penetrative sex alone. We have been using a vibrator and that does the job, but are there any positions that will allow my girlfriend to orgasm without a toy?

Fixing roads should come first!

As much as I approve of the administrations desire to beautify the campus and build fantastic new structures to house what is sure to be worthy research and facilities, I feel that they should focus on repairing our existing issues before diverting the construction focus onto something new.

Sibling Rivalry

In honor of Yossi Olmerts visit to Brandeis, The Hoot decided to highlight the lesser-known siblings of famous people.

Does our recycling system work?

Have you ever looked at the lids on the thin, tall recycling bins? Theyre akin to those hammer and shape toys many of us had as kids. You banged the square shape into the square hole, the triangle into the triangle, and if you tried it the other way it didnt work very well. Recycling on campus is similar: the green lids have round holes for bottles and cans;

the blue lids have a diagonal slit for paper. Meanwhile, the trash cans are open to anything you offer them. Unfortunately, some people (and there was always that one little brat) are hammering the triangle into the square, so to speak.

Letter to the Editor: Response only reinforces points

Stefan Borst-Censullo's letter to the editor (, November 3rd) ironically serves to reinforce the exact points that Jordan Rothman made when he documented his tribulations as a politically conservative student at Brandeis…

Letter to the Editor: Comparisons not quite as unfair as assumed

On behalf of a dear friend of mine I would like to clarify some serious misconceptions voiced by last week's responses to a 'Brandeis Conservative.' When Jordan made the comparison between conservatism at Brandeis and homosexuality elsewhere, he did not do so to disparage the hardships of homosexuals, including the hardships they endure in our society. He did so to make a tongue-in-cheek illustration of what life as a conservative at Brandeis is like the stated purpose of his article. This is not an unfair analogy, whether or not you happen to agree with it.

Academic sanctioning: The keys to success?

The new lockout policy at Brandeis has gained a lot of negative attention due to the unnecessary paperwork that students must fill out when they are locked out of their rooms. However, when discussing the change of policy that now forces students to go to the Residence Life office to be readmitted to their rooms, they failed to inform the community that the new policy allows Residence Life to academically punish students who are repeat “lockout” offenders.