Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
On the road last weekend, the 12th-ranked Brandeis men’s soccer team suffered two United Athletic Association losses against Carnegie Mellon and Emory. In Friday’s game against the 23rd-ranked CMU team, the Judges fell 2-1 against the Tartans in overtime. Against the Emory Eagles on Sunday, the Judges lost 3-1. The results from both games bring […]
This year, Brandeis welcomed 65 Gateway Scholars to a program that integrates students whose primary language is not English from all areas of the globe into the Brandeis community. For each of these scholars, Brandeis provides intensive language development courses, tutors and analytical writing skills. But The Hoot would like to commend the university for […]
One of the things I was worried about coming back to school this semester with the change in the food service provider was whether or not the same employees would still be around to be handling our meals. Of course, it would be extremely difficult to train an entire team of new employees over one […]
One man. Three beautiful women who worship him. Seems like a dream come true, doesn’t it? In “Boeing-Boeing” (written by Marc Camoletti), Bernard, played by Austin Koenigstein ’17, is one such man. Bernard, an American businessman living in Paris, has managed to snag and shag three stewardesses: an American, Gloria (Corrie Legge ’14); an Italian, […]
Whenever I walk around campus, I have to question where I actually go to school. Yes, the high density of yarmulkes and gross tonnage of bagels suggest that I am at Brandeis, the apparel does not always share that opinion. While a good amount of the sweatshirts and keychains display the school colors, a fair […]
“Cinema Paradiso,” an Italian film, traces the lifelong journey of a filmmaker who looks back upon his life in sorrow, unable to reconcile lost loves and memories of his childhood with his successful career in modern Italy. Although I have always been more of a fan of horror movies, psychological thrillers and comedies, and actually […]
Last week, Brandeis announced a new initiative seeking to expand the Brandeis Department of African and Afro-American Studies (AAAS). The initiative, including a multi-year group of faculty hires dedicated to expanding the studies of the African diaspora, will begin this year with two new positions. The initiative strengthens the University’s increasingly culturally diverse campus and […]
It is Tuesday, March 8, 2011 and a video has just been uploaded to Youtube. No one at the time realized this little video, featuring two nice Jewish boys who called themselves Timeflies, would kick off one of the most successful weekly web-series on the Internet. By 2013, episodes of the appropriately titled “Timeflies Tuesdays,” […]
Poet Tess Taylor read at Brandeis on Oct. 10, a gloomy Thursday during the month of ghosts. It was a fitting time for her to visit, as her poems explore the ghost of Thomas Jefferson, a founding father for America and an ancestor of Taylor’s. Taylor’s work has appeared in the “Atlantic Monthly,” the “Times […]
It’s a typical Wednesday morning and, as usual, I stroll into my 10 a.m. class, coffee in hand, still in the midst of mid-morning daze. My eyes glance around the room at my classmates, all preparing for the lecture ahead, when I notice the T-shirt of a girl sitting directly across from me. The emblem […]
