Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Today I will pick up a copy of The Hoot and slowly, the realization that my time as editor is now over, will begin to sink in. Few articles, letters or essays from the past four years can match the difficulty level of this one—a farewell column to my career as a college journalist. Through […]
Before I cross the commencement stage erected in Gosman and enter the world as a college graduate, I am thrilled to use this piece to reflect on my past four years as a Brandeisian. The lessons I learned during my semesters here were very much my own, and yet I believe they might be worthy […]
The progression and definition of technology have changed during the course of history, but the last couple of centuries may have seen the swiftest and most drastic shift in technology. The wheel made it easier to transport materials, which, thousands of years later, allowed air and space travel to be taken for granted. The advancement […]
It’s true, what we heard at our first day of orientation: There is no experience quite like the Brandeis experience. Growing up, my parents raised me with the traditional ideals of what many Chinese daughters experience: to be quiet and docile, to play the violin and piano, to achieve straight As in school, and to […]
I better just come out of the closet and say it. I am a divestment campaign skeptic. For those of you who don’t know, the divestment campaign is an effort by a group of students to get Brandeis to stop investing in fossil fuel companies. This, supposedly, will pressure the oil companies to invest in […]
Recently in America, debates about gun rights have raged through social discourse. But why should so much debate over this issue exist? After all, the constitution does clearly say, the right to bear arms shall not be infringed. It shouldn’t be possible to argue with such an unequivocal statement. This commonplace paraphrasing of the second […]
I still remember getting the first text. It was around three o’clock when a friend I had not texted within months asked me if I was all right. The message was quite unexpected at the time. I wondered if someone had hacked my Facebook to create some fake crisis, or if perhaps people were overly […]
Bombs explode at a marathon to kill three people younger than 30 and wound nearly 200 others. A deranged gunman open fires to massacre 20 children and six teachers at an elementary school. Another shoots down dozens of people watching a midnight premiere in a movie theater. Acts of human evil leave us speechless. Filled […]
I recently read an article from the AP discussing comparisons between gun control policies of the United States and firearm restrictions in Nazi Germany. While I’m sure that the majority of people do not believe that these two cases are comparable, it’s unfortunate that even a small portion of the population would compare arms policies […]
One thing we Brandeis students pride ourselves on is the incredible amount of extracurriculars we all seem to juggle. I can remember my time as a prospective student touring Brandeis: my tour guide, former Student Union president Herbie Rosen ’12, prided himself on all the activities he and his fellow students were involved in. From […]
