Brandeis is pretty great but also a bit too serious sometimes, and also bureaucratic. I’ve gone to colleges with brown sheet paper pasted to the bathroom stalls, so that students were encouraged to write. Instead of the lewd crudity you see here, they had poetry, discussions, stories. We need that sort of activist spirit at [...]
What’s going on at Innermost Parts? Why has posting been so light? Here’s the deal. Many of us at Innermost Parts are spending our time getting the Change Agency off the ground. Change Agency is a chartered campus club with the same goals as we have: to grow and strengthen the progressive community at Brandeis. [...]
Welcome to the Change Agency, the new progressive activist group on campus! After a lot of hard work from a lot of talented people, the Change Agency is finally ready to go public and bring activism at Brandeis to new heights. And each and every one of us can bring our talents together and play [...]
Posted on: August 16th, 2010
Category: Adam, Context and Connections, Honesty, Schuster Institute reports, The Public Good
In 1972, the young reporting team of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein almost single-handedly uncovered the evidence of the political scandal of the century and forced the resignation of a corrupt President. Thirty years later, another corrupt administration lied the nation into an ongoing war with the complicity of a media that served as cheerleaders [...]
Posted on: August 14th, 2010
Category: Activism, Break Blogging, Campus Camp Wellstone, Elly, International Issues, Massachusetts, National Issues, Take Action, The Public Good
IF YES….. I received this e-mail from the national Democracy for America group, one of the many causes I support and wish I was more involved with but sadly am not…Don’t let the same thing happen to you. (I love you, Howard Dean!) It takes three things to win elections — good candidates, good campaigns, and [...]
The American Enterprise Institute is an explicitly right-wing organization. They have a new report out claiming that we students study an average of 14 hours a week, which is 10 hours less than people in the 60′s. Their summary: In 1961, the average full-time student at a four-year college in the United States studied about [...]
