Day: March 11, 2005

ON YOUR MARKS: Get interrupted and watch PTI

The best aspect of writing a column for a campus newspaper is that you know who is going to read it. My good friends will sit down and read an article with my picture near it. Professors involved in the journalism program will likely read the campus publications. My parents and close relatives will probably find themselves perusing The Hoots website to see what it is that I have to say. And of course the few people on campus who have an interest in sports may happen upon my column, bringing my total readership to nearly 25. It is those few people with an interest in sports that I am attempting to reach with the following column I feel that if they take my advice they will be doing themselves a large favor.

FICTION: Beads Part 5: "Fear"

She woke with a start. Her body felt heavy, weighing down on the mattress. She could hear someone shuffling around her, but she imagined it would take too much effort to open her eyes. Then, the person stopped moving.

Vagina Fest receives a standing ovation

Last weekend, Eve Enslers The Vagina Monologues was performed in Spingolds Mainstage Theatre to cap this years Brandeis Universiy VaginaFest. This is the fourth consecutive year that The Vagina Monologues has been performed at Brandeis, and judging from the enthusiastic reception it received from the audience, this is far from the last.

CLUB SPOTLIGHT: Click to help Tsunami victims

Between Feb. 14 and Mar. 31, Brandeis students are pitted against universities across the nation in the Oxfam America Collegiate Clickdrive, a campaign to raise funds for micro-credit relief for victims of the recent tsunami in Southeast Asia. Students pay nothing as all donations come from site advertisers on a per site visit basis.

OSTROWSKY: On This Day Brady And Her Bunch Ruled

You will not find her name printed all over the womens basketball game summaries on the athletic page of the Brandeis web site. When casually talking about the Brandeis womens hoops team, there are probably five names more likely to come up before hers does. Forget being included in the Sports Illustrated Faces In The Crowd section. She is practically a face in the crowd of Brandeis ladies basketball. This young lady is none other than senior co-captain Catherine Brady.

Marx in Soho, Zinn at Brandeis

Marx in Soho, a one-man show written by prominent historian and political scientist Howard Zinn, was performed on campus Thursday, Mar. 3.

WRITER'S BLOCK: The housing lottery: Hitting it big or playing it cool

Okay kids, brace yourselves. Its time for the 2005 Brandeis Housing Lottery. Key the dramatic music and a slightly elevated heart rate. If youve done this before, you know that the process can be just a bit stressful. Take a walk around campus and theres a good chance youll find students clawing at their mailboxes with the most anticipation since college application season.

BERKENWALD: Brandeis only sucks as much as you want it to

We finally have the data to prove what we Brandeisians have known all along: this place kind of sucks. Brandeis was ranked by the Princeton Review to have the fourth unhappiest students in the U.S. And I bet our administrators are asking themselves, Where did we go wrong? In my opinion, the problem is with the many, many annoyances we have to put up with each day.

EDITORIAL: Jaffe, Krauss deserve pat on back for months of headaches

When Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe put forth his preliminary proposals for improving the Academy at Brandeis, an immediate furor erupted from all quarters. The need for reasoned discussion and discourse in such planning decisions is a must. But the alarmist talk and cries that the sky is falling did more to make faculty members look like children than to move the process forward.

MEYERS: Mixed reviews for Wikipedia

In the last fifteen years, the Internet has made all but defunct the old 26 volume, several hundred dollar encyclopedia set. One popular site that I have been using and that has emerged within the past few years is known as Wikipedia.

VERBATIM: A libeled giraffe speaks

The following email was sent to The Hoot by a class of 2007 student in reference to an article printed Mar. 4, 2005 titled, “Brandeis has a social life but what we lack is a P.R. firm.” It is presented here without comment.

Ballroom dance team excels at Harvard competition

Why would hundreds of college students choose to spend a rare warm and sunny March weekend cooped up indoors? While their peers trekked into Boston or simply frolicked in the sunshine, 26 Brandeis Ballroom Dance Team members were executing the best New Yorkers and dancing the best Cha-Chas at the 14th Annual Harvard Invitational held March 5th and 6th.

Debate society second best U.S. team at World Championships

Malaysias Multimedia University hosted the 25th annual Worlds Universities Debating Competition (WUDC, or Worlds) over a nine day period this past December and January. The Brandeis Debate and Speech Society was represented by Justin Gelfand 05 and Brian Schon 06.

BTV vies for almost 150% budget increase

Brandeis Television (BTV), a Secured media organization, has announced plans to put forth a constitutional amendment that, if passed, would more than double their guaranteed yearly Student Activities Fee allocation.