in posts shall be in effect over the break. Meanwhile, enjoy your holidays! As a sidenote, I recently sent an email to Pres. Reinharz concerning our endowment transparency. Let us see how he responds.
For the light posting. I’ve had mad late final essay work to do that just ended about 10 minutes ago, and of course we all want to enjoy the break. Expect sporadic posting until Monday, when IP will revv up to normal posting speed. Confused? I didn’t think so.
Now with Facebook! I found something marvelous today: The Voices Facebook Application Fill out your name, address, and zipcode, and a message of your choice (pertaining to the issue page you’re using) and you send an email to your congressman and both Senators. I’m adding it to our links. There is no excuse not to [...]
Family Security Matters seems to be some sort of right-wing, “lump all your fear of foreigners and brown people together” organization committed to “keeping American families safe from not just terrorism, but all those different ideas and people they might be forced to encounter. And by “families,” they mean white, Christian, economically privileged families.” Over [...]
This is a follow-up to the previous post. Read that first =).As students, we can apply pressure to the University to invest in socially responsible areas. We have pursued divestment from companies direclty or indirectly violating human rights (there was a divestment campaign out of Sudan a few years ago; I don’t know what happened [...]
I recently came upon the College Sustainability Report Card for Brandeis, which can be found here. Our overall grade is a C, which means that despite some commitment to environmental sustainability, we’re still doing a fairly lackluster job. Especially troubling is the apalling lack of transparency in our endowment’s investment, as well as its lack [...]
