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New presidential administration will likely bring some student loan debt cancellation »
Celia Young January 19, 2021
As a new presidential administration takes office, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren hopes to cancel some student loan debt. Canceling that debt would impact about 40 percent of Brandeis students—students who rely on federal loans to… Read More... -
Black Action Plan creators propose alternative to public safety »
Victoria Morrongiello December 4, 2020
Members of the Black Action Plan, Sonali Anderson ’22 and DeBorah Ault ’22, proposed a new “Campus Safety Alliance” as an alternative to the current Brandeis police department in an effort to defund the campus… Read More... -
Brandeis alumna named provost »
Victoria Morrongiello December 4, 2020
President Ron Liebowitz announced that Brandeis has hired Dr. Carol Fierke PhD ’84 as the new university provost and executive vice president, a role currently held by Provost and Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social… Read More... -
Univ. sets record in Giving Tuesday donations »
Victoria Morrongiello December 4, 2020
The Brandeis community raised a record-breaking amount of donations this past Tuesday, according to the Giving Deisday page, raising over $1 million, with over 2121 donors on Tuesday alone. The university unlocked an extra $100… Read More...
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Miley Cyrus’s ‘Plastic Hearts’ is the album she was born to make »
Uma Jagwani December 4, 2020
Miley Cyrus’s new album “Plastic Hearts” captures feelings of complex youthful sorrow and navigating identity through the lens of pleasure and pain in her lyrics. The inaugural track of “Plastic Hearts,” titled “WTF Do I… Read More... -
‘Happiest Season’ is 2020’s movie for the most wonderful time of the year »
Caroline O December 4, 2020
Let me start off by saying that I am not the biggest fan of holiday movies, mostly because of their formula. (Grinch-y male character hates Christmas before accidentally falling in love with a woman whose… Read More... -
‘Freaky’ is underwhelming but entertaining »
Lucy Fay December 4, 2020
I have seen very few movies in which I felt the writers truly captured the complexities of teen language and diction. “Freaky,” the newest teen horror released in theaters, truly felt like it was written… Read More...
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Rhum Barbancourt four year »
Harper Pollio-Barbee December 4, 2020
When I asked my manager Dan about rum, he told me that the Caribbean, and rum by extension, was the Wild West of the liquor world (compare this to France, which is its polar opposite.… Read More... -
Thanksgiving is the best holiday »
Aaron LaFauci December 4, 2020
This year has cemented in my mind the idea that Thanksgiving is the greatest of all the cold-month holidays. Bereft of the burden of extended family antagonism, turkey day becomes just that—a day dedicated wholly… Read More... -
You’re wrong more often than you think, and so am I »
Ben Helzner December 4, 2020
As any psychologist, neuroscientist or economist will tell you (the lattermost perhaps accompanied by an expletive or two), people are not entirely rational. In our decision-making, we do not often proceed consciously from evidently true… Read More...
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Prof. Gary Samore: the man who survived a terrorist attack »
Shruthi Manjunath December 4, 2020
Imagine traveling to India for a conference and getting caught in the middle of a terrorist attack. You are stuck in your hotel room and hear explosions and gunshots all around you. Suddenly, when you… Read More... -
BTW peer educators are here to help »
Emily Chou November 20, 2020
Bridge to Wellness (BTW) peer educators are a group of student peer health educators who exist as a resource to promote healthy lifestyle habits and general wellness to all Brandeis students, Nathalie Vieux-Gresham ’23, a… Read More... -
Research Technology and Innovation still designing and prototyping despite restrictions »
Sabrina Chow November 13, 2020
As different parts of campus continue to adjust to fully virtual workspaces, departments have been forced to get creative on how to continue to engage students and the Brandeis community. And while the library is… Read More...
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The NFL is not prepared for the coronavirus, and it is starting to show »
Justin Leung December 4, 2020
The coronavirus has caused all sports to become very different, however most sports have fully gotten through at least one season without having to go to a complete shutdown. This can be attributed to strict… Read More... -
NCAA college basketball returns despite raging pandemic »
Sophie Trachtenberg December 4, 2020
Since the conclusion of the National Basketball Association (NBA) bubble in October, fans have been craving more of the sport amidst the stay-at-home orders, advisory warnings and quarantines that have become so normalized in recent… Read More... -
To the start and end of my senior season »
Sophie Trachtenberg November 20, 2020
When I played organized basketball for the first time at the young age of six, I never pictured myself still surrounded by the game some 15 years later. I do, however, remember the way that… Read More...
Every Editor on The Hoot writes about their experience at Brandeis as they reach graduation. Read our EIC’s, Celia’s, farewell in this week’s issue of The Hoot. ow.ly/GrLB50CNmIN pic.twitter.com/cLdN…
