Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
On April 15, President Barack Obama traveled to Kennedy Space Center in Florida to tell National Aeronautics and Space Administration employees to begin looking for private sector jobs. He didn’t put it quite that way, but his Republican-style plans for NASA privatization carried that meaning. The president called for adding $6 billion to the NASA […]
Tanning beds have become a craze in the United States. Young people everywhere are encapsulating themselves in tanning beds in order to improve their appearances. The feasibility of using tanning beds to modify one’s body in order to feel better about one’s appearance is a controversial subject but not the one I intend to tackle […]
What is good sex? Because we all have different wants and needs, is there really a standard? Is there actually such a thing as objectively good sex? I recently discovered that some of the things I take for granted when talking about sex are not what others do. Of course on an inconsequential level, I […]
Early polling suggests that the Democrats are on shaky ground come this November. A reason for this is that this party is losing what I would like to call the populism war. A recurrent theme in American politics on both sides of the political spectrum is populism. However, the left and right diverge in regards […]
After almost failing to return this year for its seventh outing, the annual SunDeis Film Festival debuts its slate of films this weekend. Because this year’s festival did not receive its usual funding from Student Activities due to a budget crunch, its future had been in question at the beginning of the semester. However, after […]
Pinch Me In “Pinch Me,” a film by Chris Lavery ‘10 and Avi Swerdlow ‘10, a man named Jon leads a humdrum existence. He spends most of his time sleeping, has a less than enthralling job and an awfully noisy neighbor. Luckily, he has a wonderful girlfriend. There’s only one problem: she disappears every time […]
Irresponsible Journalism To the editor, I was shocked today when I opened my copy of the Hoot to see the article “Irresponsible Fees” by Alex Schneider. I scoured the article for a single warranted argument as to why this fee could be viewed as “irresponsible,” yet failed to find a single one. The Princeton wordnet […]
William Murphy, 23, a former Brandeis soccer player and his brother Thomas Murphy, 22, allegedly robbed a bank in Longmeadow, Mass., Thursday March 25, according to a press release from the Longmeadow Police Department. A Brandeis student told The Hoot William Murphy hid the money from the bank at a Russell Street house where many […]
(Photo gallery link) Former Democratic National Committee Chairman and Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean advocated student activism in politics in his speech to a crowded Levin Ballroom Thursday night. “Don’t drop the ball now,” he said. In his first speach to a campus chapter of Democracy for America (DFA), which he created in 2004, Dean […]
