Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
As an editor of The Hoot, I have an obvious interest in the way news is produced and consumed in our country. Many people have predicted the downfall of the newspaper as Internet news sources have all but overtaken the traditional form. A book that I’m reading for one of my classes this semester gives […]
Conventional wisdom tells us that we’ll forget 90 percent of everything we learn in college. When we say this as a joke, laugh and complain about how unfortunate it is that we cram textbooks-worth of information into our brains and pour them out into a blue-book. Rarely do we take a moment to reflect on […]
Remember when Chris Brown hit his then-girlfriend, Rihanna? I do. It was the eve of the 2009 Grammys, and Brown and Rihanna were both scheduled to perform the next day. According to a search warrant, obtained and released by TMZ, they were driving when Rihanna read a text message from a woman with whom Brown […]
SSIS does a great job of educating Brandeis students about sex, but there are just some things that SSIS has never bothered telling us. We had to learn these things from other places, including that sixth-grade sex ed. class we crashed, that strip club we frequent or that strange site we stumbled across while on […]
The past couple of weeks have seen amazing headway in the advance of legalizing gay marriage in the United States. Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire signed into law on Feb. 13 a bill legalizing gay marriage in the state. This brings the count of states allowing gay marriage up to seven: Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, […]
Too often we say things without truly thinking about them first. We are all guilty of it. I am guilty of a fair number of these and am trying to kick myself of the habit. Most often these oral faux pas occur because we have been programmed to say these things; certain words and phrases […]
If administrators have their way, volume 51 will be the last for my high school’s newspaper. Plans are underway to shutter Denebola, the paper that has informed members of the Newton South High School community in Newton, Mass., since the school first opened in 1960. The plan comes on the heels of the decision across […]
In the past two decades, the field of information technology has changed significantly. As time passes and technologies advance, the idea of these changes creating oligopolistic environment has slowly shifted from absurd to alarming. Indeed, Net surfers’ fear about their privacy for the last couple of years intensified along with the emancipation of the Information […]
As I watched results pour in from the Missouri and Colorado primaries and the Minnesota Caucuses, I must say I was a little bit stunned at Rick Santorum’s victories. In election season it is always interesting to see how the country feels about various politicians, why they vote the way they do, and who in […]
By now, I would argue that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is officially dead. Last month officials from both sides convened in Jordan to try to re-initiate negotiations. As promptly as they began, the discussion to restart talks came to a grinding halt. There are other related recent developments. The ostensibly moderate Fatah has continued the […]
