Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Beginning this week, Community Advisers will be distributing forms for the United States census to students across campus. Federal guidelines say that since Brandeis students live in Massachusetts the majority of the year, they will fill out the national count here. We cannot stress how important it is for students to fill out the census […]
The news that the administration cancelled half of the planned Justice Brandeis Semester (JBS) programs did not come as a surprise to this editorial board. JBS coordinators extended the deadline and worked hard to sell their program, but in the end, the few students who actually knew the JBS programs existed could not justify the […]
IndieLouies a student festival through and through To the Editor, In preparation of the coming festival, and in light of the recent controversy, the IndieLouies committee would like to explain our purpose more clearly to Brandeis community. We are not withdrawing the statement on our Web site. We believe in what we said. It was […]
The Film, Television and Interactive Media program’s sneak preview of “The Front,” a Lifetime original movie, made for an entertaining evening, especially when coupled with the question-and-answer session which followed. The film, based on a novel by crime writer Patricia Cornwell, had a satisfyingly twisty plot, featured stellar acting and, apart from a few discordant […]
Taking time inbetween the many tasks that needed to be completed in preparation for yesterday’s premiere of the Brandeis Players’ production of “M. Butterfly,” director Aaron Arbiter ’10 and producer Asya Bashina ’12 spoke to The Hoot about the experience of working on the play. Playwright David Henry Hwang wrote the script of “M. Butterfly,” […]
My family bought The Intrepid for my Dad’s 50th birthday so he could live out his seafaring fantasies. A Sunfish, the 13-footer is not meant for ocean waves. It is the type of boat used on camp lakes and ponds to teach children to sail. We christened it “The Intrepid” after some large schooner in […]
Based on the title “Hot Tub Time Machine” alone, you can instantly recognize you’re about to witness a movie that doesn’t exactly take itself seriously and is more than willing to immerse itself in all the kitsch its premise entails. Thankfully, this intentional silliness does not end with the film’s opening credits. Instead of simply […]
In recent months, much more attention has been placed on director Roman Polanski’s legal troubles, stemming from his rape conviction of a minor in 1977, than on his work as a filmmaker. With the release of “The Ghost Writer”—the film Polanski was working on at the time of his arrest—the director presents another great movie […]
Recently the subject of porn has come up in many of my discussions without provocation. Whether talking with friends at school, family friends at the Seder or new acquaintances at dinner parties, porn seems to be on everybody’s mind. As women, we both expect to find and dread finding porn on our boyfriends’ Internet browser […]
Conservatives and liberals seem to disagree on a huge variety of issues, to put it mildly. Indeed, partisan battles wage on endlessly in Washington and state governments across the country. At the heart of many of the differences between these political factions are what I would consider to be two competing conceptions of the idea […]
