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Danielle Allen wins 2024 Gittler Prize

Jason Njoroge

Brandeis chooses not to renew Lydian String Quartet’s contracts

Cooper Gottfried

Brandeis declines to renew Prof. Taylor Ackley’s contract

Cooper Gottfried

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GirlUp empowers Brandeis students who are passionate about social justice to make a difference

Ella Chase

GirlUp, an initiative launched by the United Nations Foundation, aims to create a supportive, empowering space for students passionate about gender equity and social justice. Brandeis is one of over 200,000 schools worldwide that have...

SEA circulates petition to bring back Sustainability Office

Cooper Gottfried

On Oct. 11, Students for Environmental Action (SEA) authored a petition to reopen Brandeis’ sustainability office. The petition noted, “As the climate crisis worsens, we are personally experiencing the consequences of anthropogenic climate change as...

Who is Arthur Levine?

Rachel Rosenfield

On Sept. 25, Ronald D. Liebowitz announced that he is resigning from his job as President of Brandeis University after eight years in the role. With this announcement, the Board of Trustees notified the Brandeis...

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November is now

The Brandeis Hoot Editorial Board

We are now a little over halfway through the school semester, but there are still a lot of big things coming up in the time we have left, which is slightly under a month and...

Liebowitz, Levine and long weekends

The Brandeis Hoot Editorial Board

Hello again folks. If you’re reading this around the time it comes out, you’re probably feeling the same sort of fatigue that many of us are here at The Hoot. We’ve officially entered the harder...

Earnest election education for everyone

The Brandeis Hoot Editorial Board

In less than two months, we will be deciding the next president of the United States. We’ll either be getting the first female president or we’ll get four more years of Trump (*cue the “Jaws”...

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Danielle Allen wins 2024 Gittler Prize

Jason Njoroge

On Oct. 8, 2024, Dr. Danielle Allen was announced as the 2024 recipient of the Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize, which includes a $25,000 cash award and a medal. Dr. Allen is a respected...

Brandeis chooses not to renew Lydian String Quartet’s contracts

Cooper Gottfried

In another cut made to the Music Department, Brandeis has declined to renew the Lydian String Quartet’s contract. The Lydian has been described as “one of the country’s superior chamber groups,” their performances described as...

Wrongful death lawsuit filed against Brandeis and three of its police officers

Cooper Gottfried, Jenna Lewis, Avery Bishop, Jason Njoroge, James Carven and Michael Sun

Content warning: This article mentions the death of a Brandeis community member. Reader discretion is advised. On Oct. 31 at 10:32 a.m., a “wrongful death lawsuit” concerning “Eli T. Stuart, a 20-year-old student who died...

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‘The Great British Bake Off’ season 15 episode 6 recap: it’s getting spicy

Naomi Stephenson

If you need me, I’m going to be sobbing for the next three to five business days. If you’ve read my other recaps, you can probably guess who went home this week. Still, I will...

‘The Great British Bake Off’ season 15 episode 5 recap: pastry is hard, actually

Naomi Stephenson

If you are a new baker, you might find pastry intimidating. Now, I’m not sure if this episode will have done anything to dissuade you of that notion, but it was one of Bake Off’s...

‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ review

James Carven

Recently, one of my favorite new shows just released a third season, so I thought that I should take the time to share my opinions about it with you, Hoot readers. That show is “The...

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Women’s soccer puts up good fight against UAA opponents

Calli Morvay

Since our last recap, the women’s soccer team has played three soccer games. One of the games was away at the University of Chicago (UChicago) while the other two were at home in Waltham on...

Swim and dive opens season at Vassar College

Calli Morvay

As the fall sports begin coming to a close for the 2024 season, our winter-sport athletes have started to put all of their pre-season training on display. A recent occurrence of this is the swimming...

Verstovsek leads volleyball to two wins

Calli Morvay

Since our last publication, the Brandeis volleyball team has played in three matches. They first hosted the Wentworth Institution of Technology on Oct. 25, then they traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for a University Athletic Association...

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Don’t blame Taylor Swift for climate change

James Carven

In our last edition, I wrote an opinion piece saying that it was time to do something about climate change. The devastating storms Milton and Helene were made significantly worse by fossil fuel emissions warming...

How legal is Halloween in mainland china? 

Anonymous

Halloween this year in Shanghai was a real eye-opener about just how much freedom of expression exists in China—none. A man dressed as a Buddha, a Kim Kardashian lookalike, a giant cockroach and some guy...

Ask SSIS: How do I talk to my partner about getting STI tested?

SSIS

Thank you for writing to SSIS! It can be important to talk to sexual partners about STI testing, and it is also common to feel nervous or unsure about how and when to bring it...
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