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Marci had this chirping voice, this high-pitched squeak that would get on your nerves. She was my boss at Coldstone, where, unfortunately, being vocal was a big part of the job. When a grateful customer threw some coins into the cup, she would cheer, “Hey guys, we got a tip!” And we’d have to break […]
Ever since Senator McCain surprisingly tapped Governor Sarah Palin of the state of Alaska to be his running mate for the presidency, there has been a political firestorm to find out just who exactly she is, what does she bring to the ticket, and how does she alter the state of the presidential race that […]
Thursday is good for a lot of things. It’s a great day to go to the BMC, work on the next issue of The Hoot, and have a good time. Unfortunately for me, Thursday is not the best day to realize that you haven’t written your weekly opinion yet. Needless to say, today’s column is […]
Student Events is bringing Nas to campus. His greatest years of fame are behind him, and arguably the only reason he has been able to maintain some degree of presence in the spotlight is because of his attempt to use a racial slur as the title of his most recent album. In 2007, Nas was […]
If life is a stage are we really all just actors? If second chances are just that, then how come we always seek a third or a fourth? And if someone appears to be nice, why can they turn out to be a, well you know. Unfortunately, I think I’d be setting myself a pretty […]
It’s safe to say that we are living in the most environmentally-counscious period in all of human history. For most of our time as a manufacturing species, we were naive of the damage were could do to the planet; before the creation of a global economy and the vast amounts of energy it requires, it […]
It seems safe to say that many Brandeis students are going to vote for Barack Obama in this upcoming election. Many people actively supported his campaign throughout the primary season and numerous students are now engaged in promoting his candidacy today. I keep hearing phrases like “Brandeis united for change” or “got change?” around campus, […]
In a little high school in Massachusetts, Brooke Rosenbauer ’09 was showing a small group of students and their teacher a video depicting the impact of HIV/AIDS on the world. What had started out as a crowd of 15 high school students quickly turned into a room filled with more than 40 perspiring athletes and […]
The sounds of a first-year residence hall on a Monday evening: the tapping of laptop keys, the slow and reluctant flipping of an Economics book’s pages, the beeping of a printer as it comes to life. And then… chaos. Shouts, pounding on the doors, and upperclassmen screaming, “Free a-cappella in the stairwell! Free a-cappella!” Before […]
Up by a quarter, the prices of using the washers and dryers, in dorms have been raised from .75 $1. Although it has been over 10 years since Brandeis last raised them, students still find the raise to be costly, inconvenient, and somewhat unfair. “[Doing laundry] considerably taxes on my financial resources,” said MaryCate Brower, […]
