In case you weren’t aware, we just had ourselves an election. The results: Say hello to your new Senators: Charles River: Abaham “Abby” Berin East: Melissa Skolnik 2012: Abby Kulawitz Village: Albert Feldman Heading into the run-off for Associate Justice: Ryan D. Martin and Deena Glucksman. Full results:
An Anecdote: On February 5, 1946, Albert Einstein agreed to the establishment of the Albert Einstein Foundation for Higher Learning, Inc., but on June 22, 1947, he ended his association with the institute, and refused the board’s offer to name it after him. Instead, the university was named after Justice Louis D. Brandeis. In 1953 [...]
I’m back in my Social Movements class. We’re talking about collective action problems – if you’re interested in a collective goal, there will be free riders: people who think “if I bother helping out towards this goal, it won’t make much difference, but I will have to sacrifice. Therefore, I can just not join in [...]
This semester I’m taking a Social Movements course with the esteemed Professor David Cunningham. I’m trying to take insights from his class and apply them to Brandeis. He’s talking about the Montgomery Bus Boycott and how the participation of churches meant so much. One reason – churches had an established hierarchy with leaders. Instead of [...]
