Brandeis works toward completion of renovations
The Brandeis campus underwent quite a few changes over the summer. In an email to the Brandeis community on Aug. 31, Vice President of Operations Jim Gray outlined the changes that took place. The university renovated Sherman Dining Hall, with expanded seating. For more information, see the article in The Brandeis Hoot’s Features section. Gray […]
Surviving Sodexo: Deconstructed pesto
How to survive Sodexo? Get food from the farmer’s market! This week’s dish requires an ingredient that you can’t find within the walls of Usdan or down the stairs of Sherman—basil, a Farmers’ Club delicacy. The dish below, titled Deconstructed Pesto Pasta by creators Stephanie Strifert ’18 and Yael Matlow ’18, contains all the delicious […]
Surviving Sodexo: A hearty soup
Every day for lunch and dinner Sherman serves two homemade soups. These soups range from Old Fashioned Chicken Noodle Soup to American Bounty Vegetable Soup to Navy Bean Soup. While the soups themselves are delicious, oftentimes they are not quite enough to serve as an entire meal. This week’s Surviving Sodexo is the recipe to […]
Thomas Pickering named commencement speaker
This May, the Brandeis community will welcome Thomas Pickering, a former United States ambassador, to speak at Brandeis’ 64th Commencement ceremony. Pickering served as an ambassador to Russia, India, the United Nations, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria and Jordan. Pickering was high achieving well before he began working for the State Department. He was awarded a […]
Miss World 1998 discusses sexual assault
Tuesday night, March 24, the Brandeis community gathered in Wasserman Cinematheque to view a screening of “Brave Miss World” and listen to Linor Abargil, Miss World 1998, speak after the film. “Brave Miss World” is a documentary centering around Abargil, who survived a brutal assault and rape by her travel agent, only to be crowned […]
Student coffeehouse undergoes sudden reorganization
The Cholmondeley’s Coffeehouse’s (Chum’s) staff of 13 students is unsure of their continuing roles at the coffeehouse after the unexpected Chum’s “reorganization” announced this week. The employees were told not to return to work after an incident with the fire alarm on Friday, March 6. Since then, they have been told they will have the […]
Surviving Sodexo: Breakfast supreme
Breakfast is commonly thought of as the most important meal of the day. While Sherman does have a wide variety of breakfast options ranging from waffles to hash browns to custom-made eggs, these options alone can become old after a while. Below is the recipe to the Sum Waffle, a waffle created by Eric Goldberg […]
Brandeis struggles with sustainability
In the past year, Brandeis University has fallen behind on its commitment to becoming a sustainable campus. In 2012, Brandeis lost a staff member who worked full-time as a sustainability coordinator. While the position was filled for a time with an interim staff member, after her tenure, Brandeis did not rehire someone to fill the […]
Surviving Sodexo: Next-level quesadilla
Quesadilla Proteina is a fresh Mexican dish for vegetarians who want something more interesting than a salad or veggie burger, but lighter than one of Usdan’s hot meals. It is fresh, simple and contains carbohydrates, protein, dairy and vegetables—all major components of a healthy diet. Although the quesadilla takes time to make, as the panini […]
Surviving Sodexo: Perfect parfaits
This week’s recipe for a yogurt parfait is not directed toward a specific type of eater and is not made for a specific time of day. “It works for breakfast if I don’t feel like having eggs. It works for lunch if I want to have it with a salad. But also, for dinner, it […]
BIEI celebrates diverse experiences
On the evening of Jan. 30, students gathered in Chum’s Coffee House to attend the third annual “Dream Monologues—Moments of Transition,” a ’DEIS Impact event hosted by Brandeis Immigration Education Initiative. In past years, Brandeis Immigration Education Initiative (BIEI) was a group of students who worked with the administration to assure all undocumented Brandeis students […]
Surviving Sodexo: NDNG—No Dairy, No Gluten
One great aspect of Sodexo is that students can always count on the availability of bread, cereal, pizza, bagels and a variety of ice cream. Yet, for dairy and gluten free Maya Vasser ’16 and other students like her, Sodexo does not always have the same reliability. “It’s not that hard, but my options are […]
Surviving Sodexo: Back to the basics
During Juno, the snowpocalypse that hit New England on Tuesday and Wednesday, students were forced to eat in Sherman—the only place open serving food on campus. As Wednesday night approached, the line for food grew at an exponential rate, and students anxiously waited for tables to clear. As I meandered through the dining hall and […]
Brandeis affiliates with Penn Club
In September of 2014, Brandeis announced the closure of Brandeis House, an alumni center on the Upper East Side in New York City. While it was bittersweet to put the brownstone on the market, Brandeis’ new affiliation with the Penn Club of New York City, associated with the University of Pennsylvania, provides Brandeis students, alumni […]
Surviving Sodexo
Spaghetti Arrabbiata, a piquant Italian dish, is for those who crave something more savory than Usdan’s basic pasta with red sauce, healthier than the grilled cheese and certainly more “Italiano” than hamburgers and stir fry. Arrabbiata, which means angry in Italian, defines the spicy and flavorful sauce that can be created with ingredients found right […]
Cunningham leaves for WashU after 16 years at Brandeis
In 1988, David Cunningham stepped foot on the University of Connecticut’s campus as a first-year undergraduate student. Like most of his peers, he expected to earn a college degree over the following four years and get a job. Unbeknownst to him, this was the beginning to Cunningham’s journey to nothing short of academic excellence. While […]
’DEIS Impact to educate on true meaning of social justice
Friday, Jan. 30 marks the start of Brandeis’ annual ’DEIS Impact, a week-long festival celebrating social justice. Brandeis students, faculty, administrators and members of the Waltham community will frequent free discussions, presentations, exhibits and performances throughout the week. Brandeis, a university that prides itself on its social justice ideals, hopes to inspire students to not […]
