Green grade stagnant, alternate sustainability evaluations sought
Brandeis received a B this year on its annual sustainability report card from the Sustainable Endowments Institute (SEI) as university Sustainability Coordinator Janna Cohen-Rosenthal ’03 works to create a more effective way to evaluate the university’s sustainability. The university also received a B on last year’s Green Report Card, but for different reasons. This year, […]
BSF gets first proposals, winners to be announced before Thanksgiving
The Brandeis Sustainability Fund Board received its first proposals from individual and groups of students this week and held its first meeting reviewing the plans to use the new group’s $50,000 from the student activity fee to advance campus environmental efficiency and other goals. The board, which in addition to officials like the dean of […]
International judge talks dealth penalty
Judge Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, a court that judges war crimes and crimes against humanity from the Rwandan genocide spoke on his interpretation of the Constitutional laws and the Russian and global shift towards abolishing the death penalty. Prior to joining the Rwanda Tribunal, he was a long-time law professor […]
Students discuss Middle East in calm environment
Studet clubs participated in a discussion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict aimed to refine their own views to form a general consensus in an event sponsored by Hillel, and was led by the organization, “Constructive Conversations: About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” Students from four Israel-related clubs on campus, Jewish Voice for Peace, Brandeis Zionist Alliance, J-Street U […]
Salem: past and present
People in brightly colored costumes flooded the street. Vendors flaunted their wares for tourists to buy. Visitors posed smilingly for photographs. This, however, was not a circus or a county fair—it was Salem, Mass. A group of Brandeis American Studies students and professors visited Salem Sunday to see the sights and learn the history of […]
‘Last Comic Standing’ comedian has Brandeis brand of humor
“This woman said to me, do you want to get coffee or drinks? And I was like, coffee is a drink. I don’t want go out with someone who doesn’t know the set/subset relationship.” Such is the geeky, Brandeis brand of humor that Myq Kaplan brought to Levin Ballroom Tuesday night. Standing at 5’6,” wearing […]
Chatting with Myq Kaplan
After the show, Kaplan sat down with The Hoot to answer some questions. The Brandeis Hoot: What’s the story behind the “q”? Myq Kaplan: This was around the time Prince changed his name to a symbol and I was like, “That’s weird. I want to be weird.” And I went to an Arts camp in […]
The immaturity of the ‘Adult’ show
Brandeis Players’ production of “An Adult Evening with Shel Silverstein” was funny, raunchy and immature. When I was in elementary school, I loved Silverstein’s poetry. “Where The Sidewalk Ends” and “A Light In the Attic” were touchstones that I would turn to whenever I was feeling gloomy and needed a laugh. So when I saw […]
The hidden dangers of public transportation
As a Bostonian gal, I love my Riverside Green T-line, Logan Airport, T-Bus and Amtrak (well, maybe not the last one) just as much as the next person. Like many others, the MBTA is my main means of transportation into Boston, Cambridge and everywhere. As much as these forms of public transportation are convenient, great […]
The influence of Bollywood
Professor Corey Creekmur from Iowa University came to Brandeis this Thursday, Oct. 28 as the first speaker in the 2009-2010 Soli Sorabjee Lecture series. This series approaches topics in South Asian studies from artistic and academic perspectives. The South Asian studies program started this series last academic year and it included three lectures, including one […]
Women’s soccer scores 10 in home finale
Though they had previously posted an impressive 7-1-1 record at home, the members of the women’s soccer team saved their most striking effort for the final game of their home campaign. With a 10-0 win against visiting Lesley College (10-5-2), the 12-3-1 Judges left a striking final impression on their Gordon Field faithful. The Judges […]
Judges drop two matches at Hall of Fame invite this week
This week was a losing week for Women’s volleyball, falling 3-1 to Tufts on Friday and then dropping two more games at the Hall of Fame invitational on Saturday, dropping the team’s record to 13-14. Despite this, the Judges had a strong first game Friday with 17 kills. Paige Blasco ’11 had 13 kills, a […]
Men’s soccer beats Lasell Lasers 2-0
Men’s soccer beat host team Lasell 2-0 Tuesday, making this their best season since 2006 with a record of 9-4-1, while Lasell’s record fell to 8-6-2. In the first half, the Judges outshot the Lasell Lasers 10-3, with the help of goalie Taylor Bracken ’11, who saved two goals. Lasell’s goalie Matt Bruninghaus also saved […]
Gordy’s game guesses: This week favoring Miami, San Diego, Tampa Bay and Oakland
This week is starting off with a bonus World Series guess: In the World Series, I’m guessing that the Texas Rangers are going to take it. The San Francisco Giants may have home field advantage, but the Rangers have already overcome both the Rays and the Yankees; the Giants might not even seem like a […]
The witching hour
Halloween is synonymous with free candy, crazy costumes, scary decorations and jack-o-lanterns. It is a time when all inhibitions are put on hold, and everyone can be a princess or Jedi knight for the evening. The fun-filled holiday was once a holy day as the Interfaith Chaplaincy wrote in an e-mail to students to mark […]
Callahan, 74, was friend and mentor to Heller
Professor James Callahan, or Jim, was one of the first people Lisa Lynch met in the summer of 2008 when she became dean of Brandeis’ Heller School for Social Policy and Management. “I remember he just popped in my first day when my door was open,” Lynch said. “He just came in and started talking, […]
Heller fire leaves up to $50,000 in damages
A single-alarm fire started on the patio behind the Schneider building of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at 10 a.m. Monday and then moved inside the building, causing between $25,000 and $50,000 worth of damage, Waltham Fire Department and university officials said. Students were evacuated from their classes and sent to Levin […]
McHeny describes Food Not Bombs’ growth, organization’s history helping those in need
Founder of the non-profit group Food Not Bombs Keith McHenry spoke at Brandeis Monday about the history of his organization and his own personal involvement in a group that grew from a few college students to a movement with chapters in more than 1,000 cities. McHenry founded Food Not Bombs with a group of seven […]
Prof and Cabinet member, both Danes, discuss Europe and Islam
Jytte Klausen of the politics department spoke at in Rapaporte Treasure Hall Monday, but for the first time she delivered remarks as a Dane, on the success of Danish and European integration of Islam, opposite Berter Haarder, a member her home country’s Cabinet in charge of interior affairs and once immigration chief. The debate-like forum […]
Financial crisis forced university to take more loans
Brandeis University was forced to take out more loans in fiscal year 2009 than in previous years in order to compensate for the effect of the national economic crisis, according to the university’s tax exemption forms from that year. For example, on June 23, the university took a $50 million loan from Bank of America […]
