Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Not only does Brandeis University need for its campus police to be armed;
this decision has not been taken a moment too soon. The reasons why have absolutely nothing to do with last semesters tragedy at Virginia Tech. Brandeis is simply a school which is at especial risk.
Dear Editor:
I was on a senior high school tour of Brandeis with my daughter on October 19 when I had the opportunity to read The Hoot. I find student newspapers more informative than tour guides. I am struck by the content of Mr. Peposes piece on Carters MidEast Challenge.
Brandeis has been very fortunate over the past year. Among all of the esteemed speakers that have graced our campus, we have been honored with two former U.S. presidents;
last year it was President Jimmy Carter and this upcoming December President Bill Clinton will be here. Yet the circumstances in which these two important speakers will appear is quite different. The Hoot would like to commend the administration with the way they have learned from their past mistakes and are handling Clinton's upcoming appearance.
Due to concern regarding the future of their program, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies students have drafted a letter addressed to various administrators including President Jehuda Reinharz and Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe.
The Sustainable Endowments Institute, a Cambridge-based nonprofit organization dedicated to sustainability research and education, issued Brandeis a C grade in the 2008 College Sustainability Report Card released Wednesday morning.
A proposal to create an Education Studies major will go before the University faculty for a vote in November, and if approved the major will potentially be introduced for the Fall 2008 semester, according to Prof. Marya Levenson, the Head of the Education Department.
For the last 45 years Bill Field, the plumber, had serviced the houses of Hickory, as had his father before him and his grandfather before that. The name painted on the side of the battered company truck (which was not the same truck as his father and grandfather had driven, but still a Ford in olive green) was Will Works For Food.
Lets face it. The pasta sauce in Usdan is not tomato sauce. It has tomatoes, yes, and a generally liquid consistency, but it is not tomato sauce.
Compare it with the tomato soup one day. Any difference? Didnt think so.
What can we do about this less-than-appetizing aspect of Usdan? Well, a couple things.
As mentioned briefly on the previous page, President Bush proposed this week to establish a “freedom fund” for Cubans, as long as the current government agreed to protect freedom of speech, press, association and political parties.
Colombian rock star and ex-member of the heavy metal band Ekhymosis, Juan Esteban Aristizbal Vsquez, known to the Spanish- and non-Spanish- speaking worlds alike as Juanes, has done it again.
