The Hoot Report

Thursday’s election results

Senator at Large: Abdul Aziz Sohail Beneva Davies Senator for the Class of 2011: Michael D. Newborn Abraham Berin Senator for the Class of 2012: Abby L. Kulawitz Liya Kahan Senator for the Class 2013: Jessica P. Christian David J. Fisch Racial Minority Senator: Leslyn M. Hayes Finance Board Member: Julia B. Blanter F-board Racial […]

Feminists, supporters ‘take back the night’

Take Back the Night, an annual march through the Brandeis campus, took place Thursday against worldwide rape. This year the Committee on Rape Education (CORE), which usually organizes the walk, this year worked in conjunction with the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance (FMLA). The main goal of the march is to make it safe for women […]

Israeli Ambassador Oren to speak at commencement

Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael B. Oren will speak at commencement May 23, angering some members of the Brandeis community because of the polarizing nature of Oren’s politics. A member of the Israeli right-wing, Oren will also receive an honorary degree along with Partners in Health founder Paul Farmer; the first woman to […]

Study abroad adds program at The Hague for spring 2011

The Hague summer program has now been extended into a spring 2011 study abroad option by the Office of Global Affairs in conjunction with the Study Abroad Office, the International and Global Studies Program and the Legal Studies Program. The new study abroad program will be similar to the six-week program at The Hague, which […]

Bmail will change to Gmail over the summer

Library and Technology Services (LTS) has announced that this summer, Bmail, Brandeis’ campus e-mail system, will be converted to a system managed and controlled by Google. It is also considering moving to a completely wireless Internet network in the residence halls, in addition to reducing or eliminating campus room phones. Brandeis currently controls Bmail, meaning […]

Students to vote on empty Kalman space

Provost Marty Krauss and Chief Operating Officer Jeff Apfel this week began a survey of the student body to determine what to do with new space left from the demolition of the Kalman building as part of the third phase of the university’s Science Complex Renewal Project. “The proposal for alternate space ideas has been […]

Panel discusses human trafficking, sex work in U.S.

Three leading experts and advocates in the field of human slavery and trafficking spoke Wednesday at the panel event “Slavery Today: Sex Labor & Pornography,” which focused on trafficking issues within the United States and the rise of pornography that features many enslaved women. Human trafficking is the second largest growing criminal industry in the […]

Brandeis’ first law journal makes its debut in May

The first issue of the student-run Brandeis University Law Journal will be released May 3, founding Editor in Chief Judah Marans ’11 said. The law journal is one of the few undergraduate law publications in the country and features articles from students, professors and University President Jehuda Reinharz. The first issue includes a foreword from […]

Israeli soldiers memorialized

A group of more than 100 students observed Yom Hazikaron in the Shapiro Campus Center atrium Monday in an event hosted by the Brandeis Zionist Alliance (BZA). The gathering marked Israel’s Remembrance Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism. Speakers at the event included Rabbi Elliot Kaplowitz, a Brandeis alumna and co-director of the […]