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Things found on the ground: A sophomore year collection

Jamie Trope

Univ. admin. salaries: Are they really as big as we claim?

Thomas Pickering

Brandeis Hospitality announces new meal plan; students raise alarm

Cooper Gottfried and Victoria Morrongiello

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Univ. admin. salaries: Are they really as big as we claim?

Thomas Pickering

Brandeis University is, for tax and legal purposes, a nonprofit organization that is tax-exempt. One of the requirements of such organizations is that the university is bound by law to produce and publish public information...

An interview with the incoming Student Union President and Vice President

Cooper Gottfried

Recently, Brandeis’ Student Union has gone through a new round of elections in preparation for the 2023-24 academic year. On April 26, The Brandeis Hoot spoke with Noah Risley ’24, the new Student Union President,...

Furry friends on campus: the emotional support animals of Brandeis

Logan Ashkinazy

If you’re a pet owner, you can certainly relate to the feeling of companionship that an animal friend can bring to your life. For most, however, moving to college unfortunately means giving up that companionship....

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What is happening to the SCC?

The Brandeis Hoot Editorial Board

In a disastrous email entitled “SCC review and space allocation,” Brandeis’ Department of Student Engagement (DSE) has kicked numerous clubs out of their spaces in the Shapiro Campus Center (SCC). Unfortunately, as a non-secured club,...

Empowering women outside of Women’s History Month

The Brandeis Hoot Editorial Board

The U.S. recognizes March as Women’s History Month as a way to commemorate the women who have contributed to contemporary society. It is a month to celebrate women’s impact on history and all of their...

The blue wave at Brandeis

The Brandeis Hoot Editorial Board

The landscape of college admissions is rapidly changing and its impacts are far further reaching than most may think at first glance. Before we engage with the topic of how altered admissions processes impact the...

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Brandeis’ housing process failures

Victoria Morrongiello and Cooper Gottfried

In an email sent to students on April 26, Brandeis Vice President of Student Affairs Andrea Dine gave an update on the housing process. She notes “that housing selection can be fraught under the best...

An Interview with Ghaith Al-Omari and David Makovsky

Cooper Gottfried and Victoria Morrongiello

During their recent visit to Brandeis’ campus, The Brandeis Hoot spoke with the Washington Institute’s Ghaith Al-Omari and David Makovsky. The pair spoke about their backgrounds, the importance of communication and the potential for a...

PARC holds annual Take Back the Night event

Natalie Saltzman

On April 20, Brandeis’ Prevention, Advocacy & Resource Center (PARC) held its annual Take Back the Night event. In support of Sexual Assault Awareness Month in the U.S., PARC held this event for those who...

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CinderBeth, or Cinderella MacBeth

Jamie Trope

Upon a time in a land faraway,  Within the great green plains of old Scotland, There outside town a creaky mansion lay, The penned sheep bleated and the postal donkey brayed.  Once with a lovely...

‘Bake Off’: Enter the bakeverse

Naomi Stephenson

We (or at least I) all know and love “The Great British Bake Off.” But, in “Bake Off’s” time off the air, you might be craving equally soothing, low stakes television that involves lovely people...

BookTok worth it or not: The final review

Victoria Morrongiello

I’m not going to lie, it is pretty hard for me to admit this is the end of my column. What started as a way for me to cope with my feelings by reading more...

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Softball concludes UAA season by clinching second place in conference

Calli Morvay

This past week, the softball team wrapped up their University Athletic Association (UAA) games for the season with four games against Washington University (WashU). The Judges won three of the four games in their meeting...

Tennis goes to Florida

Jillian Brosofsky

As the end of class approaches on campus, the men’s and women’s tennis teams end their seasons in Florida playing in the University Athletic Association (UAA) tournament. At the event, play ends in each head-to-head...

Judges’ track team competes at UAAs

Logan Ashkinazy and Cooper Gottfried

This past weekend, on Saturday April 22 and Sunday April 23, the Brandeis Judges’ men’s and women’s track team traveled to the University of Chicago to compete in the 2023 University Athletic Association (UAA) championships....

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All things end, new things begin

Victoria Morrongiello

I’ve been procrastinating writing this piece. You see, when I first joined The Brandeis Hoot I remember being told about the legacy that is senior ops. It’s a tradition that our little paper established for...

The final ‘Tommy Time’

Thomas Pickering

It’s funny. I am confronted with the final article of my Brandeis Hoot career. A time and place I thought at one point would never come, yet also a time and place, in some moments,...

Rat meets world

Madeline Rousell

It took me a while to feel at home at The Hoot, and at Brandeis in general. There was something so vague and disorienting about freshman year, and when we got sent home in March...
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June 1, 2023

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