Month: January 2008

Love, in the City of Light

Imagine being given a creative assignment. In this assignment, you are given five minutes to tell a story about love in Paris. Your story can be about any of the aspects of love, but you must tell your story in five minutes. This assignment, or perhaps a better word would be challenge, was given to […]

American Gladiators: New competitors, same Hulk Hogan

January is usually the month where television comes back from its mid-season break. In a normal year, all your favorite scripted shows have plenty of fresh episodes to finish off the overarching storylines. However, this television season is a little different. With the writers and television executives still fighting over who gets what money in […]

Messiah

Editor’s Note: The first installment of this story appeared in the Jan. 18 issue of Diverse City and detailed Khava’s discovery that she possesses special powers that allow her to move objects without touching them. So I left our apartment. Our poor, old, ugly apartment. I hate that thing, diary! I’m the only girl in […]

Lupe Fiasco's sophomore effort is The Cool

A lot of “Gansta Rap” pisses me off. Why are there so many songs about nothing except sex, drugs and money? Didn’t Jay-Z say it all with “Big Pimpin’?” Furthermore, most artists aren’t even creative with their approaches anymore. As a personal non-enthusiast (to say the least) of mainstream gangster rap, I’ve always made a […]

Blood is brilliant

Paul Thomas Anderson has never made a perfect movie. He has made three spectacular, if decidedly flawed, films. Boogie Nights was the epic, stylish saga of the 70s porn industry. Magnolia was a meditation on love, despair, and coincidence. Punch Drunk Love was a simple love story, filtered through a screen of extreme innocence. P.T. […]

VOCAL 2008 uses poetry to promote social change

Do actions really speak louder than words? Maybe not, if Saturday night’s spoken-word benefit concert, which used words to promote social activism, is any indicator. The concert, aptly named VOCAL 2008: Speaking Up for the Future, called on world-renowned poets, to help raise awareness about the importance of after-school programs in Massachusetts, as well as […]

Sexiled: Hung out to dry

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Edited by Andy Meyers

Foreplay has come and gone. So has he.

The lights are still on, which is never a good sign. You look better in the dark. Besides, this just means he was so fast, you didn’t have time to turn them off. He makes the minute man look like a marathon runner.

Or maybe your story has a better climax than mine. Maybe yours isn’t all falling action, like mine is.

Let’s set this up the right way: He was hot. All six feet-something of hard muscle. I…

Shopping for Truth: Why I don't have Facebook

facebook.pngIt’s one of the first questions people ask you when they meet you. It’s a way to scope out people before you meet them. It’s a way to keep in touch. What is it, you ask? It’s the obsession called Facebook. Before you start reading this, you might want to sit down because some of this could seem pretty shocking to some of you.

Facebook: Not something for everyone

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Featuring Chrissy Callahan, Pat Garofalo, and Shanna Rifkin, hosted by Andy Meyers. Edited by Andy Meyers.

Futile Ramblings: How to stay unemployed

As a second semester senior, I have recently endured my fair share of job interviews in my quest to find the perfect occupation following my commencement during this upcoming May. While I have had the luxury of experiencing a number of different types of interviews for all different types of jobs, I have yet to […]

Book of Matthew: Don't walk on the Constitution

The problem with election season is that everyone is focusing on the presidential candidates, while ignoring the present administration. This is not a good time for that to happen, because President Bush has been quite ambitious in the last year of his presidency. And yes, we should be wary of that ambition. We have known […]

Senior VP responds to Union protest of SE funding decision

Senior Vice President of Students and Enrollment Jean Eddy sent an explanatory e-mail Jan. 18 to the student body regarding her decision to allow Students Event direct access to the Student Events Fee following a Union demonstration in December protesting the decision. Eddy explained in her e-mail, “it is important…for all students to understand the […]

Civil liberties group defends Hindley

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonprofit civil liberties group, issued a press release Wednesday in defense of Prof. Donald Hindley (POL). Hindley had a monitor placed in his classroom and was ordered by Provost Marty Krauss to take “anti-discrimination training” after allegedly making “inappropriate, racial, and discriminatory” statements. “As Justice Brandeis said, […]

Study abroad under investigation by NY Attorney General

Brandeis University has received a subpoena from the New York Attorney General in a study abroad investigation, Dennis Nealson, Brandeis Director of Media Affairs, confirmed in an e-mail to The Hoot. Director of Study Abroad Scott Van Der Meid also confirmed the subpoena. “Brandeis University has received a subpoena and the university lawyers are evaluating […]

Senator Carl Levin speaks in honor of MLK Day

U.S. Senator Carl Levin, Michigan Democrat and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was the keynote speaker during Brandeis’s Martin Luther King Day celebration on, Jan. 21. Charles Radin, Brandeis’s Director of Communications Operations and the moderator of the event, explained why Senator Levin was asked to attend. “We wanted to have, during an […]

Alumni presence indicates Track team’s appeal

Evaluating sports programs is not always as easy as it seems, especially at the Division III collegiate level. Athletic directors across the country are faced with making difficult decisions with regards to hiring their coaching staff. They are obligated to set the foundation of what will make their school unique from all of the others […]

Cleaning blurs with sport during Extreme Ironing

More often than not, people don’t enjoy taking out their ironing board, waiting for the iron to warm up, and spending countless minutes attempting to get rid of any wrinkles. What then, one may truly wonder, would provoke anyone to do just that—but on an extreme level? Still, ask yourself this. What would you rather […]

Women’s Track wins Reggie Poyau meet

With alumni, friends, and family watching, the Men and Women’s Track and Field teams competed this past Saturday at home. The Reggie Poyau Memorial Meet consisted of 11 teams on the Men’s side of the competition and 14 Women’s squads, and the Judges were able to register some strong individual performance, to come out high […]

Women’s B-ball can’t handle Yellowjackets

The Brandeis Women’s Basketball team’s NCAA hopes took another hit as they finished their two game road trip with a brutal loss to Rochester 77-61 on Sunday. The loss came after Brandeis picked up its first UAA win Friday at the expense of Carnegie-Mellon 74-58. The Judges started strong, continuing their positive momentum from Friday […]