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: July 27th, 2010
Category: Adam, Context and Connections, International Issues, National Issues, The Public Good
Treatment of mental health conditions has long been the most underfunded aspect of the American health care system (the other contender is preventive care, but the Affordable Care Act has finally taken steps to address it). People with mental health disorders are frequently denied not only the funding to seek appropriate treatment but also, all [...]
Posted on: July 26th, 2010
Category: Adam, Context and Connections, Honesty, News, RoseArt, The Public Good
Two days ago, I wrote about the exciting news that the Rose Art Museum was named one of 1,000 Great Places in Massachusetts. That, however, will be cold comfort if the Museum is later disbanded or if its collection is devalued by the sale of some of its major works. Unfortunately, the latest updates in [...]
Posted on: July 24th, 2010
Category: Adam, Context and Connections, Diversity and Multiculturalism, Massachusetts, News, RoseArt, Waltham Great Places trips
After a year of accepting submissions, the Massachusetts’ legislature’s 1,000 Great Places Commission has released its report of the best locations in the state. That’s not exactly an exclusive list considering that Massachusetts has only 351 cities and towns, but it’s still nice to see that one of these Great Places is found on our [...]
Last winter, when Brandeis Trustee Meyer Koplow was nominated to serve as our next President, one of the major objections I heard to his candidacy was his ties to the Republican Party. As Nathan Robinson wrote in the Hoot, Koplow’s record of political contributions includes several darlings of the right-wing, including the ultraconservative Jim DeMint [...]
