Sitting down with Aaron Voldman

Aaron Voldman 09, founder of the Student Peace Movement and a co-founder and member of Brandeis Students Peace Alliance, spoke with the Hoot about his involvement in the movement for a Department of Peace.

A sneak-preview of Saturday’s Springfest

Springfest is happening Saturday on the Great Lawn. New Brandeis Policy: Beer for over-21s with proper id (wristbands will be issued so no beer garden). Concerts start at 12pm, should end by 6pm.

NishNash rather nifty

In the past, ordering out has often resulted in confusion and misinterpretation. Ordering food over the phone is more popular now than ever, as over fifty percent of all restaurant business is done off-premises. Being put on hold, not having a menu handy to pick out the coveted dish and giving out the proper directions for delivery can often result in a headache for both orderer and the restaurant itself. A website created by two former Brandeis students, Dan Peguine 06 and Adam Gries 06, in December 2005, NishNash.com, seeks to remedy these problems. Upon graduating from Brandeis, Peguine and Gries made [managing] NishNash a full-time job. The site allows users to peruse menus of various restaurants in the Boston area, order food online, read reviews and avoid the telephone call entirely, at no extra charge.

Go and ‘see’ The Lookout

With a smart script, interesting camera angles, and solid performances, The Lookout is a mesmerizing crime drama. Aside from a couple of missteps, its film-noir elements both effectively enthrall and disturb the senses.

Strange but true

Mother abandons child over poor soccer performance A Lincoln, Nebraska mother was upset when her daughter performed poorly in a Saturday soccer game, so on the way home she told her daughter to repeat the tips that she had given her prior to the game. When the girl messed up the tips, her mom slapped […]

SDS, or: How we learned to stop worrying about the war and organize

We are quite the topic of conversation.

A buzz these days among liberal America has been about the students. The question that gets asked a lot in the liberal discourse is: Why arent the students protesting the Iraq War? Yes, activist student groups like Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) have sprung up in the face of this unjust war, but there doesnt seem to be a movement yet. It seems that the sense of injustice in students that the Vietnam War touched on is not the same today. Id wager that the Bush Administration is crossing its fingers as it continues to test students tolerance for injustice. The war has long since proven to be an incredible disaster and an enormous atrocity, yet still our threshold has not yet been crossed.

Effective activism has no easy answers

When I was thinking over some of my recent articles, I noticed I haven't been very controversial in a while. And so, I write this article to strike a chord. I adamantly believe that something should be said on this topic. Brandeis is a college that prides itself on being a politically active campus. We have more activist organizations than a capella groups and I think that is a wonderful thing for our university.

An off-campus failure

Following the demolition of Ridgewood this summer, the Brandeis administration and Student Union will be faced with a high percentage of students off-campus. In the past, the Union has been much more proactive in addressing the needs of off-campus students. This year's off-campus senator, Jonathan Winstone '07, and the Union as a whole has completely ignored their responsibilities to this portion of their constituency.

Editorial: SEA sets difficult act to follow

Many clubs claim to work for the benefit of the community at largefew, however, are able to coordinate with meager funds and bureaucratic red tape in order to follow through on their high-minded ambitions. Students for an Environmental Action (SEA), however, is one of those clubs.

Panel discusses Holocaust’s role in Middle East conflict

Brandeis hosted a panel Thursday called The Public Framing of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: How the Holocaust Underlines Realities of Fear, Intimidation, and Denial. The panel, moderated by Professor Gordon Fellman (Soc), featured Dr. Sara Roy, Senior Research Scholar of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, Dr. Alice Rothchild, physician and cofounder of Jewish Voice for Peace-Boston, and Dr. Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, author of Original Sins: Reflections on the History of Zionism and Israel.