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Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.

March 2005 Issue

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.


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.


GOLDMAN: Lebanon, freedom and the Brandeis dilemma

The People Power protest in Lebanon over the past two weeks has been led by jubilant teens and twenty-somethings who sense that change is in the air.


Images for Liquid Latex (Part 2)

Photos from last night's Liquid Latex.


Images for Liquid Latex

Images from last night's Liquid Latex performance.


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.


Unnatural Triple

Unnatural Triple for March 11, 2005.


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.


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.