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This week, Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer Frances Drolette told The Hoot that the university uses roughly 12 percent of its endowment for operating expenses. At the same time, Senior Vice President for Communications Andrew Gully would not give examples of the university’s real estate investments, private investments or alternative investments, […]
In last week’s paper, Rick Alterbaum posed what seems like it should be a reasonable question: “Why can thousands of Arabs currently live in Israel proper while no Jews would be allowed to even live in a future Palestinian state?” While this may seem like a legitimate question, in reality it ignores the reality of […]
Image Gallery I didn’t think about whether I had moved my laundry to the dryer. I didn’t think about whether my car was going to get ticketed. I didn’t think about the homework I wasn’t doing. I remember thinking about those things walking in the door, but when OK Go started playing, I stopped. I […]
The Wild Party Coffeehouse previewed the upcoming student musical and its cast through performances by the various a cappella groups the cast members are involved with. This was an important night for a cappella in that it was the first time new recruits of the groups performed on campus, so many of the “newbie” initiation […]
The plot of Anton Chekhov’s play “The Three Sister” consists of so many love affairs, power struggles and family drama that, on paper, it reads like a frothy soap opera. Yet, the Brandeis Theater Company’s adaptation, directed skillfully by Professor Adrianne Krstansky, is not a guilty pleasure, but a complex tale brought to life by […]
As the leaves turn brilliant colors in Boston, we try to take advantage of these last nice days outdoors by taking walks through the woods and going apple picking. At first, nothing besides midterms seems like it could ruin these beautiful days. Little do you know that there are ticks hiding in these wooded and […]
One night in 2003, Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerburg got dumped, got drunk and created a website that eventually led to the massive social networking giant we now know as Facebook. At least, that’s what the movie “The Social Network” wants you to think. Whether it actually happened that way or not is still up for […]
I have what some might call a love-hate relationship with anime. I hate it because the only stuff that ever comes close to becoming part of pop culture is garbage like “Pokémon” or “Yu-gi-oh!” I love it because there are occasional gems like “Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood” (FMA). With a solid story, quirky characters, and a […]
Gilad Shalit is an Israeli soldier. He was abducted by Hamas on June 25, 2006 on the border of Israel and Gaza. Gilad Shalit. He has remained in captivity somewhere in Gaza for more than 1,560 days since his abduction. The Israeli government has tried to secure the return of Shalit many times during the […]
