Comments on: Brandeis: tribalism, funding, and fear.

By: Ari

Ari — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:49:58 +0000

Right, Sahar, you put Gravity aside, but you did it because you don’t know about the issue rather than because it wasn’t mentioned. The Gravity issue speaks to the racial tensions on campus, which is totally unrelated to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

By: Sahar

Sahar — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:42:49 +0000

Tim – You’re probably correct. But hey, next-year’s change must begin today, right? If the admin. will not wake up to the realities on campus, then students will make their views known. In any case, I’m uncomfortable denigrating the efforts of pure-minded students.

But yeah. Fight the good fight.

By: Sahar

Sahar — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:28:00 +0000

Bret – You’re being rather disingenuous.

If one read with care, as I’m sure you did, one would see that I specifically put Gravity, Nadia Kim aside.

A close reading will also show that I wrote:

many, if not most, of these ‘outrages’ here on campus can be viewed through that lens by students.

most != all.

Secondly, Hindley frequently clashed with the upper Administration over their handling of these Israel-Palestine related issues. The “wetback” incident was just a chance for the admin to strike back.

By: Tim PD

Tim PD — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:32:22 +0000

right on, sahar. however, this is an institutional problem and will be solved (if at all) in the long term.

i think the administration needs to show that they recognize the problem and care about students, by hosting events where students can voice their opinions about when and where they see this discrimination occur on campus, and how it affects them.

By: Bret

Bret — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:23:32 +0000

Oh yeah… and Gravity… no Israel-Palestine stuff there either.

By: Bret

Bret — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:22:02 +0000

I think you’ll have the hardest time connecting Hindley to the Israel-Palestine issue, seeing as the “wetback” incident really has nothing to do with that.