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Archive for September 26th, 2008

Tech Talk: Facebook “Pirate” Edition, HTC’s G1 “GooglePhone”, and the next Halo?

With Max Shay, Josh Waizer, and Josh Goldman.

Sports Blitz

With Zachary Aranow

The Hoot Report

With Adam Hughes, and Bret Matthews

Princeton professor wins first Joseph B. Gittler Prize

In a campus-wide e-mail sent Thursday, President Reinharz announced the first recipient of the Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize, Princeton professor ...

Attorney explains harassment laws

Attorney Daryl J. Lapp taught Brandeis faculty members about issues of anti-discrimination law at a faculty meeting in Golding yesterday. The talk, which was organized by Provost Marty Krauss comes almost ...

State of university budget uncertain

The university budget is projected to be in deficit for the current fiscal year, according to a Sept. 19 e-mail sent out by Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe. ...

UJ petition rejected as final elections results come in

Wednesday night, Rosenthal Quad Senator candidate Stephen Robinson ’11 filed a case with the Union Judiciary (UJ) citing unfair advantages in his senate race. At a meeting Thursday night, the ...

You say you want a revolution?

As “Brandeis University’s Community Newspaper,” The Hoot prides itself on serving not only as a source of on-campus news and features, but also as a forum where students can freely ...

Book of Matthew: Hold on to your votes!

I’ll be honest; this week, I had planed to join the ranks of, oh, just about every other columnist in the nation, and write about the US financial crisis. But ...

Card politics: Playing your hand

Nobody can deny how truly groundbreaking this presidential election cycle has bee. In January of 2009 either the first African-American or the ...

Don’t get mad, get more sanctions

News of Iran’s advancing nuclear development has been in the forefront of current events for several months. Many questions have been asked as to why so many object to Iran’s ...

SEA Change: Support MAPS, fight climate change

With the upcoming 2008 presidential election being less than two months away, Brandeis students are seeking ways to make sure that the next president and other politicians address the issues ...

Shame on you!

Dear Reader, Shame on you. Yes, you. Why? Let’s put it this way, can you tell me what was happening on the great lawn on ...

One Tall Voice: Courting tyranny

I was going to write my article this week on the economic and rational reasons against gay marriage. After some thoughtful conversations ...

The Naomi Narrative: Ramblings on a train

I’m on a train from Budapest to Vienna, en route to the land of wiener schnitzel, apple strudel and cafés. I can escape my life as a student in Budapest ...

Brandeis introduces Lerman-Neubauer Fellowship for class of 2012

Beginning with this year’s Freshman class, Brandeis will offer a Lerman-Neubauer Fellowship each summer to 12 accepted prospective students who have demonstrated ...

First-Years begin Brandeis with open minds

All high school students have pre-conceived notions about what university life will be like; the fears, the expectations, the stereotypes. But how is life at Brandeis really shaping up for ...

Leap of faith: Brandeis sophomore holds off conversion to judaism upon arrival on campus

As a sophomore in high school, Emily Dunning assumed that she would convert to Judaism once she went to college. Since arriving at Brandeis University last year, however, Dunning, ...

New club aims to ease Brandeis Waltham tensions

The first meeting of the Advocates for Event Education and Police Instruction took place Monday in the Shapiro Multipurpose room. The club’s founder, Seth Shapiro ’09, opened the meeting by ...

Kopp says education gap solvable

“Where you’re born in this country does affect your educational prospects,” Teach for America founder Wendy Kopp told a crowded room of ...

Deans discuss economic crisis

In the midst of a national financial crisis, Heller School Dean Lisa Lynch and International Business School Dean Bruce Magid discussed the ...

Hackett Fischer discusses book Champlain’s Dream

Samuel De Champlain may have been the illegitimate son of King Henry IV, Prof. David Hackett Fischer (HIST) announced yesterday at a ...

Women’s soccer loses to Clark, then goes on to defeat Smith

It was a week of very mixed results for the Brandeis women’s soccer team. On Saturday, Clark University took the Judges ...

Women’s volleyball ends winning streak

All good things must come to an end. After all, the Roman Empire fell, the Beatles broke up, Clarence Thomas replaced Thurgood ...

Spotlight on Boston

Beantown Jazz Festival:
Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008, 12 to 6 p.m. Columbus Ave., Boston.


Rain ...

What’s going on at Brandeis?

Dan Deacon:
Friday, Sept. 26, 2008, 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. Cholmondeley's, Usen Castle


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Nas graces Brandeis with his presence

On September 20, 2008 Nasir Jones, aka Nasir Ben Olu Dara, aka Nastradamus, aka Nasty Nas, but more commonly known as simply ...

A Correspondence with President Reinharz

The following is a compilation of questions-and-answers drawn from an e-mail to University President Jehuda Reinharz. Diverse City selected the questions posed from submissions made via a Facebook group. The ...

Privilege, Power, and Responsibility

How can you start a revolution when you are “the man?” The preceding line might sound like just a cute hook to catch ...

Write (continued)

Editor’s Note: The first installment of this story appeared in the September 19 issue of Diverse City, in which an unnamed protagonist struggled with writer's block after an unsatisfying one ...

Brandeis helps Posse student land internship

Sometimes interviewing another person makes you understand yourself better. I met Daniel Acheampong ’11 last year, because he lived on my hall ...

Pissed Off Youth of America: A Call to Action

End poverty with just a click. Sounds like a pretty sweet deal, huh? Apparently, the smallest possible effort on the part of ...

A Responsible Revolution

What’s the problem with social justice? The problem with activist rhetoric at Brandeis University is not social justice itself, but the frequency ...

P.O.Y.A.: A Motherfucking Manifesto

Last fall New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote an article that dubbed the youth of today "'Generation Q'--the Quiet Americans." He ...

P.O.Y.A.: A Fatherfucking Manifesto

This is not only about America. This is not just being pissed off. This is shame, guilt, pain and perhaps, yes perhaps ...

Accidental Activist: The Innermost Parts of Sahar

I'm a shy person. I don't like talking about politics. I really am. Throughout middle school and high school I gained a ...

a manifesta, to be performed. unfinished.

I am tired of revolutions that do not represent me Of safe spaces that alienate aspects of my identity Denying the ...

Entropy


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What is going on in the world?

People, WAKE UP! These are “interesting” times to read the news, we are living history. Changes all over the world are taking place. Below is a brief list of some ...

Just three questions

Two thousand years ago the great Rabbi Hillel posed three rhetorical questions. In the first he asks, “If I am not for ...

A Few Words on Anarchy and America

A spectre is haunting America – the spectre of the unreconstructed individual. He cannot, and will never be, a cog in the ...

POYA: Miscellaneous shit

Haters: Oh no, he said “shit”! That means he’s just trying to be inflammatory without having any actual ideas! Critics: He used the term “haters”! That means he’s a wigger! Intellectuals: Why ...