Andy Hogan takes Union presidency

29 faculty urge administration to postpone final Rose decision

Twenty nine members of the university faculty urged university administrators to keep the Rose Art Museum open as a public museum until June 30, 2010 in an open letter to President Jehuda Reinharz and Provost Marty Krauss on Wednesday. The letter lists four concerns about the future of the museum; that the exhibitions currently in […]

Louis-Rosenberg explains dangers of Mountain Top Removal Mining

Whenever Mathew Louis-Rosenberg is asked for a one line summation of his work with the Coal River Mountain Watch and the Sludge Safety Project, a collaborative effort of Coal River Mountain Watch and other groups concerned with the harmful effects of Mountain Top Coal Mining, he simply responds: “people are dying – that’s the one […]

Genesis Group donates $10.8 mil. to create scholarship fund

The university received a $10.8 million dollar grant from the Genesis Philanthropy Group (GPG) in order to establish a Brandeis Genesis Institute for Russian Jewry. The grant would provide scholarships for Russian-speaking Jews. The money will fund up to 60 undergraduates, 14 master’s degree candidates, six Ph.D candidates and 132 participants in Brandeis summer programs […]

“God Sleeps in Rwanda” provides insight on living with HIV after the Genocide

“[HIV medication] costs 550 Rwandan Francs. I make 551 Rwandan Francs a month. I cannot afford the medicine for my child,” Odette, the HIV positive mother of three living in rural Rwanda said into the camera. Having contracted the virus shortly after her marriage, Odette is lucky because only one of her three children has […]

Editorial: Practicing what we preach

Last Sunday, the Student Union considered a bylaw amendment which would ban forms of bribery in Student Union elections. In other words, the amendment would prevent Union candidates from promising favors and positions to others in exchange for support or for not contesting a candidate’s run. Many Executive Board positions, the spots most likely to […]

Editorial: Time to make a decision

Yesterday, 29 members of the faculty signed a letter urging President Jehuda Reinharz to keep the Rose Art Museum open through June of 2010. The letter came in response to indications that the museum would be effectively shuttered at the end of this academic year. Currently, there is a committee charged with determining the Rose’s […]

Letters to the Editor: Science proves condoms effective

Dear Editor, I couldn’t help but feel outrage upon reading the Letter to the Editor: Condoms not the answer to HIV in Africa in the March 27th edition of The Hoot. The other spurious claims and conspiracy theories in the letter are not worth responding to (the notion that contraceptives are designed to fail and […]

Letters to the Editor: Publishing letter to the editor was irresponsible

Dear Editor, As a Brandeis student, I appreciate The Hoot’s commitment to publishing articles of all sides and viewpoints. However, I find your publishing of a Letter to the Editor entitled “Condoms not the answer to HIV in Africa” (Mar. 27) without annotation to be inexcusable. In the letter, the author claims “the HIV virus […]

Letters to the Editor: My decision not to run for president was mine alone

Dear Editor The article “Senators question politics of Union presidential race” in the March 27th, 2009 publication of the Hoot portrayed a very different situation from what actually occurred by taking all of my quotes out of context. It attempted to draw a relationship between a pattern of events that were, in reality, based on […]