Marx in Soho, Zinn at Brandeis

Marx in Soho, a one-man show written by prominent historian and political scientist Howard Zinn, was performed on campus Thursday, Mar. 3.

WRITER'S BLOCK: The housing lottery: Hitting it big or playing it cool

Okay kids, brace yourselves. Its time for the 2005 Brandeis Housing Lottery. Key the dramatic music and a slightly elevated heart rate. If youve done this before, you know that the process can be just a bit stressful. Take a walk around campus and theres a good chance youll find students clawing at their mailboxes with the most anticipation since college application season.

BERKENWALD: Brandeis only sucks as much as you want it to

We finally have the data to prove what we Brandeisians have known all along: this place kind of sucks. Brandeis was ranked by the Princeton Review to have the fourth unhappiest students in the U.S. And I bet our administrators are asking themselves, Where did we go wrong? In my opinion, the problem is with the many, many annoyances we have to put up with each day.

EDITORIAL: Jaffe, Krauss deserve pat on back for months of headaches

When Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe put forth his preliminary proposals for improving the Academy at Brandeis, an immediate furor erupted from all quarters. The need for reasoned discussion and discourse in such planning decisions is a must. But the alarmist talk and cries that the sky is falling did more to make faculty members look like children than to move the process forward.

MEYERS: Mixed reviews for Wikipedia

In the last fifteen years, the Internet has made all but defunct the old 26 volume, several hundred dollar encyclopedia set. One popular site that I have been using and that has emerged within the past few years is known as Wikipedia.

VERBATIM: A libeled giraffe speaks

The following email was sent to The Hoot by a class of 2007 student in reference to an article printed Mar. 4, 2005 titled, “Brandeis has a social life but what we lack is a P.R. firm.” It is presented here without comment.

Ballroom dance team excels at Harvard competition

Why would hundreds of college students choose to spend a rare warm and sunny March weekend cooped up indoors? While their peers trekked into Boston or simply frolicked in the sunshine, 26 Brandeis Ballroom Dance Team members were executing the best New Yorkers and dancing the best Cha-Chas at the 14th Annual Harvard Invitational held March 5th and 6th.

Debate society second best U.S. team at World Championships

Malaysias Multimedia University hosted the 25th annual Worlds Universities Debating Competition (WUDC, or Worlds) over a nine day period this past December and January. The Brandeis Debate and Speech Society was represented by Justin Gelfand 05 and Brian Schon 06.

BTV vies for almost 150% budget increase

Brandeis Television (BTV), a Secured media organization, has announced plans to put forth a constitutional amendment that, if passed, would more than double their guaranteed yearly Student Activities Fee allocation.

FICTION: Beads Part 4: Truck

Do you want me to drive? he asked, wiping away the last of the snow off the windshield. She waved him away from the door.

OSTROWSKY: The Roaring 2000s

If you are a Boston sports fan you do not want the 2000s to end. Its as simple as that. The second half is just underway and there arent many signs of slowing down.
Your football team won its third Super Bowl in four years. For the Red Sox, no more 1918. Enough said. Lets admit it;

its been a wicked awesome decade thus far for Bostonians.

PERSPECTIVE: Trisk aims to raise awareness of anti-gay blood donation policies

Imagine youve seen the signs all over campus advertising last weeks Red Cross blood drive. All your friends are wearing Be nice to me! I donated blood today stickers. You want to contribute to this life-saving endeavor, too. But when you try to sign up, you realize that you are banned by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from donating. This is precisely what you would have experienced prior to break week if you are a man who has ever had sex with another man.

OSTROWSKY: Questionable Judgement

The Evil Empire has struck again. This time it is in the form of Womens Division III College Basketball. At the Cole Center in NYU in front of a booming crowd of 1,914 the lady Judges, ranked number 13 in the nation, were defeated by a convincing score of 60-47. If you had the misfortune of listening to or attending the game you would know it was not that close. They got out-rebounded, out-hustled, and outplayed for the entire 40 minutes. Simple as that. No excuses. In the biggest game of the year (not to mention in school history), the Judges put forth a lackluster effort.

FARBER: Beware of the Mugwort

A grammatician can be defined as someone who knows a lot about grammatics, and the intricacies of their function within the English language. An ignoramus, though, is someone who knows a lot about ignoring stuff, but knows nothing about grammatics. It would seem to the uninitiated that to combine the fields of grammatics and ignoramocity would be paradoxical, and indeed it is, but I am both anyway. I am also a philosophy major, which means I know a lot about the science of argument validity and contradiction.