Boiling point: How one Brandeis academic conference ended up on Fox News
Brandeis University found itself under attack from right-leaning media, angered by advertising that included a swastika for an academic conference that included a paper on the Tea Party movement. Wednesday’s conference, “New Right-Wing Radicalism: a Transatlantic Perspective,” was sponsored by the university’s Center for German and European Studies. It featured papers primarily about the European […]
Students to vote on empty Kalman space
Provost Marty Krauss and Chief Operating Officer Jeff Apfel this week began a survey of the student body to determine what to do with new space left from the demolition of the Kalman building as part of the third phase of the university’s Science Complex Renewal Project. “The proposal for alternate space ideas has been […]
Panel discusses human trafficking, sex work in U.S.
Three leading experts and advocates in the field of human slavery and trafficking spoke Wednesday at the panel event “Slavery Today: Sex Labor & Pornography,” which focused on trafficking issues within the United States and the rise of pornography that features many enslaved women. Human trafficking is the second largest growing criminal industry in the […]
Brandeis’ first law journal makes its debut in May
The first issue of the student-run Brandeis University Law Journal will be released May 3, founding Editor in Chief Judah Marans ’11 said. The law journal is one of the few undergraduate law publications in the country and features articles from students, professors and University President Jehuda Reinharz. The first issue includes a foreword from […]
Israeli soldiers memorialized
A group of more than 100 students observed Yom Hazikaron in the Shapiro Campus Center atrium Monday in an event hosted by the Brandeis Zionist Alliance (BZA). The gathering marked Israel’s Remembrance Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism. Speakers at the event included Rabbi Elliot Kaplowitz, a Brandeis alumna and co-director of the […]
No more sophomore parking with class of 2014
Starting with the recently admitted class of 2014, sophomore parking will no longer be available. Current first-years will have access to parking but there will be rate increases for the entire campus in an attempt to address overall parking concerns on campus, Mark Collins, vice president of campus operations, said. The final decisions on rate […]
LTS answers Facebook privacy questions
There are more than 400 million users of Facebook, more than 40 percent of those users are between the ages of 17 and 24. The average user has 160 friends and is connected to 60 groups, pages or events. With the number of those over 40-years old using facebook growing, just how do students protect […]
Students celebrate Israel’s Birthday
Students gathered on the Great Lawn Tuesday afternoon for the carnival held in Israel’s honor. Jews everywhere were especially excited on this year’s “4/20” to celebrate the 62nd birthday of Israel’s independence, otherwise known as the Jewish holiday Yom Ha’atzmaut. “4/20” is typically associated in both North America and abroad as a day to smoke […]
The college experience x 4
For my family, everything seems to exist in fours. There are four siblings, four colleges, four college tuitions and four careers in the making. And we wouldn’t have it any other way (except the four college tuition fees, of course). Unknown to many Brandesians, I’m a quadruplet, born second. At home, being a quadruplet, or […]
Softball team ranked 14th in nation in Division III poll
The Brandeis University softball team has been on fire all year, and their dream season continued with more highlights this past week. After unleashing two more monster performances at Wesleyan, the Judges are beginning to receive significant national attention. And while the success belongs to the entire team, two of Brandeis’ stars have been singled […]
Women’s tennis team finishes 6th at UAA Championships
Thanks to a hard-fought win against the Case Western Reserve University Spartans last Saturday, the Judges were able to finish sixth in the University Athletic Association with a 1-2 conference record. “A sixth place finish overall is solid, but a little below our goals,” head coach Ben Lamanna told The Hoot in an e-mail. “The […]
One win, two losses, three postponements for baseball team
Losers of seven straight games, and nine of ten overall, the Brandeis baseball team entered weekend play starved for a win. At long last, the hunger was satiated. Still, even this didn’t go entirely according to plan. With scheduled games against Framingham State and Wheaton College postponed (and no makeup dates yet announced), the Judges […]
Golf team heads into UAA Championships with momentum
The Brandeis golf team finished in third place out of 16 teams at the Worcester State Invitational on Monday in their last match before the UAA League tournament. Charles Sacks ’11 led the Judges, finishing in a tie for seventh place out of 78 athletes, with a score of 76 at four-over-par. Sacks has been […]
‘Spelling Bee’ worthy of buzz
There is no rite of passage quite as wholesome and all-American as the spelling bee. Brandeisians got the opportunity to relive their own spelling bee days with Tympanium Euphorium’s presentation of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” a one-act musical comedy that humorously probes the neuroses and dilemmas that plague one group of eager […]
Klionsky paints the Russian Jewish experience
Artist Marc Klionsky evokes the Russian Jewish immigrant experience in his expressive portraits. His paintings and etchings depict the hardships and joys he and his generation lived through in the Soviet Union and later the artistic freedom he found in America. Brandeis students had the chance to view his emotional pieces in a variety of […]
Chatting with filmmaker Chico Colvard
Director Chico Colvard has received great acclaim for his inaugural film, the documentary “Family Affair,” which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it was acquired by Oprah Winfrey’s new cable network OWN. “Family Affair” documents his family’s coming to terms with the discovery that Colvard’s father had sexually abused his sister, a revelation […]
‘South Park’ celebrates 200th episode with controversy
“South Park,” a show whose earliest origins stem from a college project of creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, celebrated its 200th episode last week. Topics covered so far this season include sex addiction, banned literature, medicinal marijuana and Facebook. Episode 200 and its follow-up do not fail to entertain as the denizens of South […]
Battling the lobsterbacks at Lexington
I shuddered when I saw the Red Coats. Though more than 200 years shielded me from physical harm, the mere sight of their lobsterbacks made me shiver as I watched the battle re-enactors march onto the Lexington Battle Green Monday morning. I knew that their muskets were loaded with blanks; that the soldiers were actors […]
In memory of our youth
It was a lonely day at Wendy’s. Not just a slow day, although the place was almost empty. There was a different atmosphere about it. People sat at their booths and tables alone, silently munching on their food with their heads down. Even the cashiers looked glum as they fiddled with their hats and aprons, […]
Diverse City: Cultural connections at a Chinese dinner table
I was speaking to my friend, Lucy Lu ’12, during a Chinese Dinner Table meeting when she mentioned something very interesting about her experience as an international student at Brandeis. She said that, prior to coming to the United States, she had a very limited knowledge of global history and politics, and her education in […]
