Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
In order to advocate for greater financial transparency and social responsibility on the part of the university’s endowment investments, student activists came together about a week ago to create Independent Voices for Endowment Sustainability and Transparency. Currently, Brandeis community members have no way of accessing information about where university endowment funds are invested. InVEST is […]
Dear Editor, “[T]he Israelis are responsible for the vast majority of the violence in Israel and Palestine…. [O]nly Israelis have the power to end the conflict.” So concluded Jon Lange’s assessment of the Gaza situation (“Enough about Sderot Already”, 3/7/08). Unfortunately, his attempted resolution of the Mideast Gordian knot rests on errors and bias. More […]
Dear Editor, Thank you for publishing an article highlighting the difficulties students are encountering with finding vegan options at Brandeis. Before I get into addressing that, I would like to offer one correction. Veganism is not extreme. It’s a sane response to an extreme world, one that finds it perfectly normal to kill sentient beings […]
Not too long ago, John McCain was way behind in the Republican race, and all but counted out by the pundits. Today, he is the Republican nominee. This is why we shouldn’t trust pundits. The right-wing conservative media says John McCain is far too liberal to be the Republican nominee, and that even Hillary Clinton […]
Oftentimes, when I read anti-Israel articles, I strongly disagree with many of the sentiments raised by the author. However, I believe that I can find some common ground with the author of the article of “Enough about Sderot Already.” I agree. I am also tired of hearing about Sderot. I feel sick when I read […]
This article is a direct rebuttal to an article that was written in the Justice last week calling global warming a hoax. I will address counterpoints in almost the same order that the originals were stated in. The first point that was made concerned the perceived “Global Cooling” theory of the 1970’s. This is countered […]
How can he have done something so incredibly stupid? That has been the question that every political junkie from Albany to Los Angeles has been posing since Monday, as if it is somehow possible to figure out why people with power can be so self-destructive. Eliot Spitzer, a man who for the last four years […]
Everyone knows that Americans are inundated with advertisements—with everything from print ads to commercials to “high concept” product installations, it’s no surprise that estimates for the number of advertisements we see daily are as high as 3,000. And while I fully admit that I’m writing this from a heavily branded Apple computer and wearing sneakers […]
There is not a single resident of the United States of America that does not benefit every day from the Constitutionally protected separation of church and state. Regardless of one’s beliefs and religious practices (or one’s lack thereof), no individual can legally have an outside religious exercise imposed upon him or be prevented from his […]
In the last month weeks alone The Hoot ran at least four articles about conservatives or Republican on campus. Every single article dealt with how very difficult it is to be to the right of center in college and how the tyranny of the liberal majority made life difficult for those who dared criticize Barack […]
