Author: Jessica


Posted on: January 14th, 2009

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Category: Jessica

Few people know, unless they’ve had a class with Gordie, that he was invited onto the O’Reilly Factor shortly after 9/11.  After seeing the video, I was astonished that it wasn’t on youtube so I just recently got the dvd from him, converted the video files so they were youtube friendly, and put it up [...]

Author: Jessica


Posted on: November 10th, 2008

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Category: Jessica, The Public Good

So, recently I lost my student ID, like most Brandeis students do at least once during their academic career.  Now normally this isn’t a big deal because someone will give it to the Info Desk at Shapiro, or message you on facebook to give it back.  Maybe at worst you’ll have to shell out the [...]

Author: Jessica


Posted on: October 22nd, 2008

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Category: Diversity and Multiculturalism, Jessica

If you’ve checked your mail recently, you should have gotten an e mail from Kaamila Mohamed regarding taking a diversity survey.  Here are the contents of the e mail, and I urge you all to take a few minutes out of your schedules to answer a few questions!!
Dear Brandeis Student,
As two students interested in diversity [...]

Author: Jessica


Posted on: October 22nd, 2008

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Category: Jessica

So, I posted this on facebook a while back, but it is something I think about every time I sit down to study, so I thought that maybe you beautiful Innermost Parts readers might enjoy it as well.

I recently read an article by Nicholas Carr called “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, and I found it [...]

Author: Jessica


Posted on: October 13th, 2008

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Category: Honesty, Jessica, National Issues, Protect the Powerless

“Columbus Day Observed” is what I read on my calendar this morning, which I promptly scratched out and responded with “not in this house”.
I am very happy that Brandeis does not recognize Columbus Day, especially since I read the book Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen and my eyes were opened to the [...]

Author: Jessica


Posted on: October 8th, 2008

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Category: Activism, Beyond Brandeis, Jessica

So, I wrote an article in the currently released edition of the Justice on Buddhism and activism (specifically tied to the peace movement).*  My goal in writing this letter to the editor was to correct a misinterpretation of Buddhism as “passive withdrawal from the world”.  In devoting so much time to thinking about engaged Buddhism, [...]

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