TheHoot.net
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The Hoot - Front Page
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Early Beginnings
The Hoot began in January 2005 after several prominent writers and editors for Brandeis' other major student newspaper, the Justice, became upset over what they saw as heavy-handed policies of its editors and leadership. The Hoot was founded to fill in perceived gaps in the Justice's coverage by focusing on Brandeis-specific issues, while the Justice remains more general in its coverage of a variety of areas, including non-school news and events. Since The Hoot is published on Fridays while the Justice comes out on Tuesdays, The Hoot tends to focus more on events since the previous Tuesday and previews of the weekend's events.
The Hoot's funding is not guaranteed and must be approved each semester by a student run funding board that allocates money among all Brandeis student clubs, whereas The Justice has a larger budget guaranteed with Student Activity Fee allocations each year.
Notable pieces published during The Hoot's first semester in print included an article breaking the story on attempts (later abandoned) to bring Ann Coulter to campus, an investigative article on a sizeable severance paid to a briefly employed former provost who left suddenly, a piece on faults in a campus-wide implementation of IPTV that was planned for deployment that could have brought down the campus phone system, and in-depth coverage on funding referendums that would have drastically change student club finances.
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