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Starting with the recently admitted class of 2014, sophomore parking will no longer be available. Current first-years will have access to parking but there will be rate increases for the entire campus in an attempt to address overall parking concerns on campus, Mark Collins, vice president of campus operations, said. The final decisions on rate […]
There are more than 400 million users of Facebook, more than 40 percent of those users are between the ages of 17 and 24. The average user has 160 friends and is connected to 60 groups, pages or events. With the number of those over 40-years old using facebook growing, just how do students protect […]
Students gathered on the Great Lawn Tuesday afternoon for the carnival held in Israel’s honor. Jews everywhere were especially excited on this year’s “4/20” to celebrate the 62nd birthday of Israel’s independence, otherwise known as the Jewish holiday Yom Ha’atzmaut. “4/20” is typically associated in both North America and abroad as a day to smoke […]
For my family, everything seems to exist in fours. There are four siblings, four colleges, four college tuitions and four careers in the making. And we wouldn’t have it any other way (except the four college tuition fees, of course). Unknown to many Brandesians, I’m a quadruplet, born second. At home, being a quadruplet, or […]
The Brandeis University softball team has been on fire all year, and their dream season continued with more highlights this past week. After unleashing two more monster performances at Wesleyan, the Judges are beginning to receive significant national attention. And while the success belongs to the entire team, two of Brandeis’ stars have been singled […]
Thanks to a hard-fought win against the Case Western Reserve University Spartans last Saturday, the Judges were able to finish sixth in the University Athletic Association with a 1-2 conference record. “A sixth place finish overall is solid, but a little below our goals,” head coach Ben Lamanna told The Hoot in an e-mail. “The […]
Losers of seven straight games, and nine of ten overall, the Brandeis baseball team entered weekend play starved for a win. At long last, the hunger was satiated. Still, even this didn’t go entirely according to plan. With scheduled games against Framingham State and Wheaton College postponed (and no makeup dates yet announced), the Judges […]
The Brandeis golf team finished in third place out of 16 teams at the Worcester State Invitational on Monday in their last match before the UAA League tournament. Charles Sacks ’11 led the Judges, finishing in a tie for seventh place out of 78 athletes, with a score of 76 at four-over-par. Sacks has been […]
There is no rite of passage quite as wholesome and all-American as the spelling bee. Brandeisians got the opportunity to relive their own spelling bee days with Tympanium Euphorium’s presentation of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” a one-act musical comedy that humorously probes the neuroses and dilemmas that plague one group of eager […]
