Month: May 2008

Student takes class project to the next level

The Heller School for Social Policy and Management hosted the second screening of Before Sunrise, a short film by Mohammad Kundos ’10 who also composed the music for the film. The first screening was held during the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts. The film, which initially started as a class project for Kundos, […]

Serving up some humor

This past Tuesday, the comedic Brandeisians came together again for a third installment of Slice and ‘Deis. “The Finals Countdown” opened with a parody of the Lost opening credits. The opening scene was humorous, with suspense leading up to a low-brow fart joke. This episode’s plot centers around finals as well as Brandeis relationships. The […]

Got Talent?

On April 30 2008, the season finale of Brandeis Got Talents was shot live in Shapiro Theater. The final five contestants, were Etta King ’10, Lisa Fitzgerald ’10, Nick Pollack ’10 , Natasha Vadera ’11 and Michael Cohen (GRAD), competed before a live studio audience to affirm their supremacy as the talent-icon-demi-god that is the […]

Sarah Marshall is unforgettable

While tabloids usually focus on the celebrity component of a Hollywood love triangle, Forgetting Sarah Marshall follows the underdog, as he attempts to recover from a breakup with up-and-coming It girl Sarah Marshall, played by Kirsten Bell (Veronica Mars). Produced by Judd Apatow, Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother, Freaks and Geeks) plays Peter, […]

Nick Cave: Still scary after all these years

Nick Cave is not the sort of person you’d want to meet in a dark alley at night. As a matter of fact, I’m not even sure you’d want to associate with the pugnacious Aussie in the middle of Grand Central Station. If his ferociously raw vocals weren’t intimidating enough, imagine them fermented in a […]

More than just a tour group:

It has been almost three years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, and as 18 members of National Collegiate Volunteers’ (NCV) second trip to New Orleans saw, the area is still recovering. From March 19 to March 24, Noah Kaplan ’08, Gaurav Gharti-Chhetri ’10, Adam Greenblatt ’10, Jaehwan Oh ’10, Matthew Kleiman ’10, Tia […]

A successful year for TRON, Brandeis Men’s Ultimate Frisbee

In the past year, you may have noticed a group of men running after flying discs out on the practice field near the commuter rail station. What you saw was Brandeis’ Men’s Ultimate Frisbee team, called TRON.Ultimate Frisbee is an up and coming sport that combines the best aspects of soccer, basketball and football into […]

Baseball with 20 hits, 17 runs in six inning defeat of Albertus Magnus

Football left Brandeis nearly five decades ago. That didn’t stop Coach Pete Varney’s baseball squad from putting up a football-like score when the Brandeis Judges needed only six innings and 20 hits to pulverize the Albertus Magnus Falcons 17-0. The scoring began with a nine run second inning. Nine proved to be a fantastic number […]

The campus megaphone

We are your megaphone. This is the newspaper for everyone, for the entire community. No matter what. This was one of the first messages that I was taught after joining The Hoot, and four year’s after our publication’s creation, I think it is still the most important message of all. The Hoot is not, nor […]

Here’s to four more years

Let’s take a trip back to 2004, when all of the seniors who will shortly graduate were first- years. There was no Facebook, John Kerry was running for President, the Red Sox had yet to break the curse, and gas was about $1.85 a gallon. And finally, to finish off this list, there was no […]

Taking stock after seven semesters

Say it like you mean it – three years of The Hoot / seven semesters of The Hoot. What! Three years, seven months, and four days ago when I first stepped foot onto this campus, Brandeis was a different world. Every year, changes have mounted to the point where I know that this university will […]

Community conversations

Since 2005 those looking for a forum to discuss and understand community issues found one in The Hoot. When The Hoot was first chartered in 2004, co-founder Igor Pedan told the Justice that he wanted to bring a focus back to the community. With each passing semester The Hoot has evolved to be able to […]

Parting words on life at the ‘Deis

Instead of talking about The Hoot and how awesome it is, I thought that I would address Brandeis, and college for that matter, in a more general sense. These are the parting words of a senior student. The battle was long, and after these 16 or so years of sitting through the education system of […]

Competition breeds quality

Fingers pound across the keyboard as the 10 p.m. “suggested deadline” flies past like a runaway freight train. The Treasurer of the Union is speaking into your ear as you send three e-mails at once. Your word count rises, along with your editor’s blood pressure. Breaking news is breaking loose, as a smile creeps across […]

Office of Development organizes campus clean-up day for staff

The Brandeis Office of Development and Alumni Relations will host a campus clean-up event on May 12 for their employees. The clean-up day has been named Brandeis development, environmental, clean-up and awareness day, or Brandeca Day. Development employees and senior staff will work primarily on litter and trash clean-up. Senior Vice-President of Institutional Advancement Nancy […]

Jewish chaplain search continues

The Jewish Chaplain Search Committee is interviewing two candidates for the position of Jewish Chaplain according to a school-wide e-mail sent Tuesday. The university has been without a rabbi since Rabbi Allan Lehmann left in April 2007. “Candidates must demonstrate intellectual and scholarly achievements in Jewish learning, strong teaching and interpersonal skills, and must be […]