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Farewell from The Hoot’s first News-Magazine Editor in Chief

That’s right, you’re finally getting rid of me. Bring out the confetti, light the fireworks, bye-bye Miss American pie. In all seriousness, I am graduating and, with that, comes a long-awaited goodbye to The Hoot and its readers. For those of you who don’t know me, sorry you won’t get the chance, I’m graduating … but, I guess I can fill you in a little about what I did around here. I began working on The Hoot the second semester of my sophomore year as a copy editor, then deputy copy editor, before becoming Copy editor (yes, these positions do have the same name, inconveniently, but the last one is head of the section if you’re following along at home). At the end of junior year, after I started leaning

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Simon Malls … Who is Simon?

This article has been a personal interest of mine for a while now. I grew up constantly going to malls. When I was a kid in Los Angeles, malls were equivalent to meeting at the playground; you went with your

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Everything I Learned As A Freshmen

Being a freshman certainly happened. I was blessed to avoid the culture shock that some experience when coming to college, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t face my share of hurdles. These hurdles helped me to learn some harsh truths about adult life that no class can cover, so I’d

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What Really Is Plan B, and How Do I Use It?

Plan B is a type of emergency contraception, not your regular birth control. It’s meant for situations like unprotected sex, a condom breaking, or missing multiple birth control pills. The good news is there’s no strict limit to how many times you can take Plan B in a month, and

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FAB: The Newest Activist Group on Campus

Some students might have noticed a set of protests at the beginning of the semester. These protests were not organized by any of the usual groups associated with activism on campus; instead, they were held by a new group, Fight Authoritarianism Brandeis (FAB).  FAB was originally started by Professor Sabine

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ChatGPT Might be Making Your Vibrator More Expensive

Nothing has captured the stock market quite like the advent of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). It is being integrated into almost every website the average internet user visits. Predictions put the percentage of internet content that was A.I. generated at 50% or more. 32% of the S&P 500 and 41% of

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Ask SSIS: Can I get pregnant from period sex?

Thanks for your question! Yes, but the answer is more complicated than that. If we think about the whole menstrual cycle, the phase during which you’re least likely to get pregnant is the menstruation phase, when you’re bleeding. This is because the menstruation phase occurs separately from the ovulation phase,

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Just Dance is back, baby

I have recently purchased the 2025 edition of “Just Dance” for the Nintendo Switch since it was on “rollback” at Walmart for ~$14. How did I justify this purchase of what some may consider a game of childhoods long past from an antiquated franchise? Well, I began by getting my

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