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‘Interview With The Vampire’ is the greatest, queerest show you’ve never heard of

Laurel Kane

Climate activist Luisa Neubauer comes to Brandeis

Cooper Gottfried

Brandeis fails to meet low income students’ needs

Jason Njoroge

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Unleashing creative potential: How Basement Records and From the Attic support Brandeis students across creative disciplines

Ella Chase

At the heart of Brandeis’s growing creative culture is a club called Basement Records and its subgroup, From the Attic. These platforms are home to those who identify themselves as “Creatives,” and emphasize inclusivity and...

Climate activist Luisa Neubauer comes to Brandeis

Cooper Gottfried

German climate activist Luisa Neubauer, the Center for German and European Studies’ (CGES) Visiting Research Scholar for the year, recently came to Brandeis’ campus for several days of climate-centric conversations. Neubauer is the leader of...

BETA Magazine: The new publication for Brandeis student entrepreneurs 

Michael Sun

Recently, Brandon King ‘26 and Chris Dech ‘26, two members of the Brandeis Entrepeneurship and Tech Association (BETA), sat down with The Hoot to discuss their newly launched publication, BETA Magazine. King and Dech are...

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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”...

Wilkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome

The Brandeis Hoot Editorial Board

Another school year is upon us. Welcome back to all returning students and a warm welcome to everyone new to the Brandeis campus. There are hundreds of people coming to this campus and we hope...

On Brandeis’ financial woes

The Brandeis Hoot Editorial Board

As members of the Brandeis community, you all just received an email letting you know that we’ll be experiencing a rise in tuition. As members of the Brandeis community, you also may have heard about...

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Brandeis graduate students protest for a better contract, higher wages

Cooper Gottfried, Lucas Alexander and Jason Njoroge

Last week on Sept. 9, 2024, graduate students gathered at the senior administration open office in the Feldberg Lounge to advocate for fair wages and the negotiation of a fair graduate student worker contract. There...

Dining workers hold several protests for a fair contract from Harvest Table

Cooper Gottfried

Gathering in Upper Usdan in the mid-afternoon of Sept. 9, Brandeis’ dining workers’ union (Local 26 Boston) protested for a fair contract from Harvest Table. Sheets were passed out among protestors, with chants written on...

Brandeis admin comments on sustainability office shutdown

Cooper Gottfried

In an email sent to members of the Brandeis community at the end of August, it was announced that Brandeis’ Office of Sustainability was being shut down. The message noted that “Our Sustainability Office has...

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Nerds.edu/superstitions- Comic #2

Kyra Bhagat and Jenna Lewis

The long, slow and inevitable death of Minecraft

Lucas Alexander

I would like to begin this article with a reassurance: This is not an attack on Minecraft. Neither is it an attack on the people who play it, nor is it, for that matter, an...

‘Le Comte de Monte Cristo’ (‘The Count of Monte Cristo’) is a stylish adaptation

Naomi Stephenson

This semester, I’m studying abroad in Paris with a French immersion program. And to kick off my immersion, my host family took me to the movies to see “Le Comte de Monte Cristo,” a three...

Sports

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US Open 2024 men’s singles recap: The Sinner takes it all

Rachel Rosenfield

After two weeks of action and adventure, the final grand slam of 2024, the US Open, has been completed. There are a lot of fascinating results from this tournament that have everyone talking. Namely, people...

Men’s soccer bounces back with a striking three-win run

Calli Morvay

Since the last men’s soccer recap article, they had not yet captured a win. However, they have since found their spark. They went on to win three-straight games in a successful effort to turn around...

Women’s soccer ranked #23 in the nation

Calli Morvay

Since the last publication, the women’s soccer team has played five games. Out of these competitive matches, the Judges won four of them and only lost one.  The Judges’ first game of this recap was...

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Are schools becoming too complacent with AI?

Shane Vogel

Throughout almost all of my K-12 education, I was again and again taught how to properly do research online and write about said research. In fact, one of the core skill sets I was told...

SSIS Question: What are your top vibrators?

SSIS

Thanks for writing to SSIS! Vibrators are super subjective and it all depends on what kind of experience you are looking for! If you are looking for a beginner friendly vibrator for external pleasure,  the...

Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei from Uganda dies after being set on fire by her boyfriend

Dea Guo

The suffix “cide” stems from the Latin word “caedere, ” meaning to kill and to strike down. It can be combined with all sorts of prefixes to mean: killing a king, animal, sperm, anything you...
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