24 hours ago, many of us felt angry and helpless. Someone had just committed a disgusting act of vandalism against the Muslim Student Association, and we couldn’t keep quiet about it. We’ve witnessed an amazing show of support from the Brandeis community, with over 450 of us signing a letter affirming our love and support [...]
Posted on: March 11th, 2010
Category: Activism, Diversity and Multiculturalism, Protect the Powerless, Sahar
In the three hours since I last posted and left for class, we’ve hit our 300 signature goal for 300 students saying YES to love of our muslim friends on campus. Now that we’ve broken out of the facebook ghetto*, faculty are getting interested in signing too.
This could get big. I am overjoyed by the [...]
Posted on: March 11th, 2010
Category: Activism, Adam, Budget Crisis, Context and Connections, Democracy
In her response to the the Brandeis 2020 Committee proposals, Provost Marty Krauss lists the five groups tasked to work towards healing Brandeis’s long-term financial deficit. They are:
The 23 member Brandeis 2020 Committee, which identified reductions in Arts and Sciences.
The professional school revenue committee, composed of 4 administrators and the Office of Budget and Planning.
The [...]
Last night I was feeling pretty frustrated. Weren’t you? I felt powerless to do anything about the Muslim Student Association vandalism, and I felt angry at newspapers irresponsibly playing up the whole “Brandeis is a university of the Jooz there must be religious strife on campus” thing.
That uncool move of vandalizing the MSA suite did [...]
So the Activist Resource Center secretly rocks. At a training/meeting/retreat in DC through ARC, we listened to a speech by Angus(?) Johnson, a professor of student activism at CUNY. Apparently he’s really cool – at least his speech was.
He had this to say, and I found it really insightful: “When I tell people that [...]
Posted on: March 10th, 2010
Category: Adam, Diversity and Multiculturalism, Massachusetts, News, The Public Good
For a university reeling for a series of PR disasters on a national scale, this can’t be how Brandeis hoped to return to the news. The vandalism at the Muslim Student Association lounge has been picked up by the Boston Herald, the Boston Globe, WCVB-TV Channel 5 Boston, the Huffington Post, and, for some reason, [...]
