Everyone has seen clips of the recent New York Mayoral debate, or at least has heard about it; if you haven’t, I’m sorry about the coma. Now, this debate has had the far-reaching effect of...
If you read my articles in the last issue of The Hoot (here and here), you’ll know that I’m not a particularly big fan of Chuck Schumer. Schumer has been the leader of the Senate...
Have you ever been sitting around the lunch table in the middle of Usdan and heard one of your friends suddenly start talking like a psychologist? “Gaslighting” this, “boundaries” that. You might even use phrases...
Sometimes it feels like being from a semi-rural area and a purple state is equivalent to being from the moon. The majority of American Brandeis students come from blue states, with the top five states...
I am a chronic procrastinator. I am haunted by the specter of many missed assignments and have risked failure of classes many times in my life because of it. Even as an adult, I continue...
Welcome to the final Hoot Recommends of the semester! At this time of the year, the holiday magic is in full swing, and one of the main contributors to this is the incessant holiday music...
On Tuesday, Nov. 4, multiple major elections were held in several different states across the country. In Virginia, former Rep. Abigail Spanberger defeated Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears to become the state’s first female governor. Rep....
Background: On June 24, 2025, New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani overcame frontrunner former Governor Andrew Cuomo to win the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City. While Mamdani secured a clear plurality from...
Since I imagine most of you don’t follow politics as closely as I do, you may not have heard about the primary campaign currently taking place in Maine. Sen. Susan Collins, a so-called moderate who...
Welcome back to Hoot Recommends! In this issue, we are going to tell you about the best spots to study on campus! With work ramping up and finals season looming ominously over all of us,...
In a time not long after dinosaurs went extinct shortly before the innovation of smart fridges, being a provocative jerk on the internet was rightly frowned upon as a negative character trait and nothing more....
Dutch singer Joost Klein was kicked out of and banned from Eurovision on the day of the 2024 grand final. This decision followed an incident where Klein gestured “threateningly” at a cameraman. Klein had made...
Our story begins one faithful afternoon in Sherman function hall roughly two years ago … I, a young woman with chronic stomach issues, was on a new diet where I could no longer eat gluten...
I recently became a Film, Television and Interactive Media minor, which means people have to start taking my movie opinions seriously—since they now qualify as an “academic pursuit of knowledge and expertise.” Inversely, I also...
On the afternoon of Saturday, Oct. 25, I was driving into Newton from campus to pick up something from a store for my Halloween costume. On my way, I noticed something: there were some children...
For Brandeis students living on campus, obtaining parking has become a privilege reserved for the lucky winners of a controversial lottery. Recent parking restrictions introduced by the Office of Parking and Traffic have only fueled...
Before we start, I know you, yes you, the reader, are itching to jump me about my opinion on candy corn. If it’s good, if it’s bad, doesn’t matter—it’s just that divisive. But, since it’s...
Note: This article is for entertainment purposes only. The actions described are safe, if morally dubious, but we regardless suggest that they not be replicated. There is a popular colloquialism used to describe food...
On Oct. 1, as congressionally allocated funding for the federal government ran out amid a battle between the parties over current spending levels, the first government shutdown in nearly seven years set in. For more...
Reading old literature is a common theme for any of us English majors, or those of you desperately trying to meet your humanities requirements, only to end up having to read nine massive novels in...
