Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
To the Editor: Over the past few years, Brandeis University’s Dining Services has made noteworthy improvements: from bio-degradable trash liners, to increased vegetarian and vegan options, to the commitment to working with students on campus to create change. As Michael Newmark’s letter to the Editor (Oct. 24 in The Hoot) stated, many of the changes […]
Ten percent. Yup, just 10%. Brandeis University recycles 10% of its waste. When I first heard that statistic, I was shocked. Brandeis, a college of 3000+ students who are supposedly passionate about social issues only manage to give 10% of our efforts to the best way out there of decreasing our strain on finite resources? […]
On Tuesday night the Republicans were handed a crushing defeat in the House, the Senate, and in the presidential race. President-elect Obama now heads to the White House with approximately a 56 to 44 majority in the Senate and approximately a 258 to 177 majority in the House of Representatives. The Republicans lost Senate seats […]
For years my American passport has remained hidden at the bottom of a drawer. “Sure I was American,” I told my French friends, “but that’s just a nationality. Not an identity.” American citizenship was associated only with embarrassment and unpopularity: President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, the war in Iraq, the Patriot Act, freedom fries… At […]
The results came in to a roar at the Shapiro Campus Center: Barack Obama will be the next president of these United States of America. People scream, hug, and generally lose their minds…or at least that’s how I saw it in my mind. I happened to be on a couch with friends, slowly nodding my […]
When we were young puzzles came in a box. We had a picture of what the puzzle would look like assembled and all of the pieces were inside, waiting. Contemporary puzzles aren’t so simple; we don’t always know what the picture will look like, or where to find the pieces. At this moment you may […]
After the furor over the mistreatment of professor Donald Hindley (POL) last year, featuring student strikes outside of Bernstein Marcus, and the freezing of all Faculty Senate Buisness for the semester, the lack of resolution or follow up this semester has been striking. We could be lulled into thinking that because Hindley continues to teach […]
I remember when I was a left wing environmentalist. For an entire year I professed to be a member of the Green party and served on my town’s environmental commission. I did everything that I possibly could to reduce my personal waste, and even read Ralph Nader’s books. Now, I have recanted the foolishness of […]
On November 4, 2008, the voters made their voices heard. Barack Hussein Obama is now President-Elect of the United States. This day marked the end of the longest presidential campaign in American history, an extraordinary campaign that involved a woman, an African-American, a former POW, and many other distinguished members of both political parties. Obama […]
Writing an article about the history of the Usen Castle is a bit daunting considering its many uses and modifications over the past 80 years. In a 1997 publication called “Building a Campus: An Architectural Celebration of Brandeis University’s 50th Anniversary,” editor and Brandeis professor Gerald S. Bernstein described the castle as “less archaeological than […]
