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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
On the door to Ed Callahan’s office there is a sign that reads “Will retire.” Its plastic red dial is carefully spun to the year 2040. Above the sign is a crinkled piece of paper with the words “Never ever” scrawled in pen. Inside, the cramped office of the Brandeis police chief is lined with […]
Balance is a part of daily life for students at Brandeis. We all stress about having enough time to do all the reading and papers for class, making it to practice, being a member of a ton of clubs and still trying to have a social life on the weekends. This already might seem like […]
This past Tuesday marked the fourth anniversary of the death of Terri Schiavo, who, on Mar. 31, 2005, died at her hospice in Pinellas Park, Florida after spending 15 years in a vegetative state. She was 41 years old—far too young. Many of you, if not almost all of you, recognize the name Terri Schiavo. […]
It is 12:30AM on Thursday and I have just cast my vote for the next group of Student Union officials. My inboxes, Bmail and Facebook alike, are being bombarded by messages from candidates, CA’s and current Student Union officials telling me to go vote. Yet, despite all of their efforts, I know that in the […]
I am trying hard not to make these last few articles of mine controversial. Don’t get me wrong, I have plenty of ideas in my head that would set this community ablaze and launch more agitation at me than has ever before been conveyed. But, I guess I don’t see the point in making anyone […]
In London on Apr. 1, President Barack Obama faced down “fairly broad challenges to American economic leadership”– or, at least, he faced down a question about them posed by a journalist from the Associated Press. “What do you say to the talk,” asked Jennifer Loven, “that there’s a decline in the American model, American predominance?” […]
All the world’s a stage and we are merely players in it. Thursday afternoon presented a stage for a grand comeback. With no outs in the bottom of the ninth, the Judges dented Fitchburg State reliever Jake Barbarotta with Nick Gallagher ’09, leading off the inning with a walk and Jeff Dennis ’11 moving him […]
