Thank you for your question! Balls can be highly sensitive and can create immense pleasure, but also pain. Communicating during ball play is key! Everyone has different likes and preferences when it comes to playing...

Welcome back to Hoot Recommends! This week, in honor of the upcoming holiday, members of The Hoot Editorial Board will be sharing their favorite Thanksgiving dishes.    James: My favorite Thanksgiving dish is stuffing. It’s...

Earlier this week, while procrastinating writing a fairly important essay, I found myself randomly reading Brandeis-related Wikipedia articles. I read all about the most famous professors and alums, the best years in athletics and the...

Donald Trump, a former president and convicted felon, was elected to a second term as president of the United States. Unlike 2016, he actually won the popular vote this time around. To many of us...

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...

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...

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...

Currently, we are in what Brandeis refers to as “shoulder months.” This is a time when facilities staff are making a transition from heating to cooling. As Brandeis acknowledged in their InBrief Newsletter sent out...

Welcome back to Hoot Recommends! This week, in honor of the spooky holiday, members of The Hoot Editorial Board will be sharing their best Halloween costumes Calli: I am fortunate to have very creative parents...

Two weeks ago, Hurricane Helene caused unprecedented flooding in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee. Over 200 people died. Before the debris from Helene was even cleaned up, another hurricane hit Florida. Milton, a category...

Welcome back to Hoot Recommends! Last week, our editors shared their favorite on-campus dining options. In this article, members of The Hoot editorial board will be sharing their favorite things to do in the Greater...

As we’ve all heard by now, President Ron Liebowitz recently resigned from his role as Brandeis’ president. His resignation followed a vote of no confidence from the faculty. The position will be filled on an...

Thank you for writing to SSIS! We are excited to announce that SSIS is now offering Spectrum brand binders as a part of our new gender-affirming products initiative.  Binders are one way to safely flatten...

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...

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...

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...

For every semester I’ve been here at Brandeis, at least one of my classes has had a recitation block. For me, all of my recitations have been for economics classes, but other programs have them...

Welcome back to Hoot Recommends! In this edition, members of our editorial board will be sharing their favorite on-campus dining options. James As I wrote about in my opinion piece last week, my favorite thing...

Welcome back to Hoot Recommends! In this article, members of The Hoot editorial board will be sharing their favorite ice cream flavors.   Rachel Picking a favorite ice cream flavor can be like picking a...

Recently, I had a package to mail, so I went down to the UPS store on Mass Ave in Cambridge. (There’s more to this story, so bear with me for a moment.) On the way...