Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
In the famous novel 1984 by George Orwell, we are introduced to a totalitarian society where everyone is brainwashed to believe everything their master tells them. One of the many things they believe is that they are in a constant state of war. Why? Because in a constant state of war the citizens become fearful […]
The release of the controversial Goldstone Report has once again focused the world’s attention on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The true nature of this conflict is fairly muddled depending on the bias of the particular news outlet. There are some who purport that Israel utilized a policy of collective punishment in an attempt to destroy Palestine, […]
Give a hand to the House of Representatives. By a vote of 220-215, the House boldly went where no Congress has gone before on Saturday, approving the greatest overhaul of the health care system since the inception of Medicare over four decades ago. Democrats who supported the measure hailed the Affordable Health Care for America […]
On Thursday November 5, 2009, Justice Richard Goldstone and former Israeli Ambassador Dore Gold faced off in an educational forum. Justice Goldstone proceeded with his presentation without a hitch. Unfortunately, the same could not be said for Ambassador Gold. Around four minutes into his speech protesters disrupted him, standing up and refusing to sit even […]
I really don’t want to write about health care. Partly because it’s been done a billion times before, partly because it shouldn’t be my place to cover any issue which is dominating the political sphere, but mostly because there are a lot of crazy people just itching for a fight. So I am not going […]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on Tuesday announced its support for an anti-discrimination ordinance that would provide homosexuals with protection from housing and employment discrimination. The ordinance was ultimately approved by Salt Lake City. Although the church had issued several statements in the past declaring that it would support such measures, […]
With all of the confusion concerning the possible outcome of the health care bill, I decided to go 20 years into the future in order to discover what would happen. (Disclaimer–This article pertains to a purely fictional premise and any resemblances to actual people or events are quite intentional and highly ironic). Upon going to […]
I originally planned to write a fun column this week—a cute little satirical piece featuring Barack Obama, Joe Lieberman and questionable Halloween costumes. It might have even been funny. Occasionally, my obscure political jokes do hit their mark. But I don’t feel like trying to be funny right now. There are two numbers obstructing my […]
This Monday will mark the 75th anniversary of the birth of Carl Sagan, the astronomer and astrochemist, famous for his plain-English explanations of the workings of the cosmos. At the height of the Cold War, Sagan produced a 13-part television show, entitled “Cosmos,” which portrayed the Earth as a cohesive unit and put into perspective […]
This past weekend at the Tufts Invitational Debate Tournament, Jack Bouchard ’10 and the Hoot Columnist Andrew Husick’ 11 broke to the octofinals round and ended up placing fifth out of 66 teams in attendance. Jack and Andrew have also placed fifth at the Smith College invitational and 11th at Harvard, one of the largest […]
