Number of people who actually live at Brandeis choosing the next President: 0. Number working-class people who toil here every day who get to choose: 0.
President Jehuda Reinharz today sent out a letter to the Brandeis community, detailing the committee that would choose his successor. The goods: Trustee Meyer Koplow ’72, managing partner at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz in New York, will chair the search committee. Other Trustee members of the committee will be Allen Alter ’71, Senior Producer [...]
What if Baan Thai* refused to serve black students? A bunch of seniors from Washington University went to a traditional class trip to a nightclub in Chicago, and the black students were refused entry for clearly racist reasons. Prejudice – it could happen to you.
…your new dorm building is named after coal. The CEO of Alliance of Coal, Joseph Craft, donated money for a new men’s basketball dorm at the University of Kentucky, on the stipulation that it be named after coal. The Board of Trustees voted 16-3 to approve the new dorm; of the three “no” votes, one [...]
I’m excited. Labor Notes, a great source of news regarding the US labor movement, is online. Students interested in unions and organized labor would be well-served by checking it out.
