Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
In the past week, The Hoot’s coverage of incidents surrounding drinking on campus prior to Pachanga along with subsequent police action, has been questioned by the Brandeis community. Foremost among the community’s concerns is our decision not to publish the names of students arrested or involved in other alcohol-related incidents the night of Oct. 23. […]
This Monday, students received a campus-wide e-mail from university President Jehuda Reinharz scolding the student body for its “disheartening” and “unnacceptable” conduct at Pachanga, a semesterly dance held by the International Club. Citing counterfeit wristbands, pulled fire alarms, assaults on police officers and widespread intoxication, Reinharz wrote, “we Wwill not tolerate this conduct and those […]
During my three years at Brandeis, I have enjoyed following The Hoot’s coverage of political events on campus. Yet this week, I was thoroughly disappointed to find blatant pro-Zionist bias in articles on two important campus lectures: first in the article on Holocaust survivor and human rights activist Hedy Epstein and second, in the article […]
It’s no surprise that Heller Professor Anita Hill first thought the voicemail left for her by Virginia Thomas was a prank. After all, it had been precisely 19 years since Hill first spoke out about then Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas’ allegedly sexually harassing her during the 1980s. After almost 20 years, it seemed unfathomably […]
Last week we were all deeply saddened by the sudden and tragic death of former Heller Professor Jim Callahan. Callahan was a man who dedicated his life to improving the state’s mental health and elderly care services. Yet we were greatly disappointed with the university’s communications office. Callahan was killed when an MBTA train struck […]
During the past month, the Brandeis community has been the subject of many events that some may consider uncharacteristic of the university. The flasher, castle dorm thefts and credit card frauds are all examples of incidents we would like to think occur in the outside world, not at Brandeis. We like to think that here […]
In “Our politics continue to divide us” Shirel Guez misrepresents the sign put up in the Shapiro Campus Center by JewishVoice for Peace (JVP) in a way that aggrandizes Israeli and Jewish suffering and excludes the crimes perpetrated against Palestinians. The sign was JVP’s contribution to the Brandeis Zionist Alliance’s commemoration of Gilad Shalit. In […]
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 […]
The recent global financial crisis forced families, businesses, governments and even academic institutions to make due with less. It required all of us to make difficult decisions. And Brandeis did the right thing when it froze university salaries and cut retirement funding for employees in fiscal year 2010. Yet, while all employees were forced to […]
