Author: Loki


Posted on: August 27th, 2009

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Category: Beyond Brandeis, Loki, The Public Good

Prof. Brian Donahue, professor of American Environmental History and guru of local community farming, has a good op-ed in yesterday’s Boston Globe outlining the feasibility of growing a much larger quantity of our food locally, here in New England.

Author: Loki


Posted on: August 26th, 2009

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Category: Brandeis Values, Loki

Welcome home to the nest, where we shall learn to fly on the wings of knowledge and eat the worms of… knowledge. Now that I have my yearly metaphor out of the way, some light, semi-interesting reading worth taking a look at… Financial Status Report This latest document shows that our budget gap-closing measures, spearheaded [...]

Author: Loki


Posted on: May 23rd, 2009

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Category: Budget Crisis, Event, Loki, News

Though I generally try to avoid posting during the summer , this is rather important. Brandeis has decided, after considering some apparently rather unpleasant options, to suspend payments to its faculty and staff retirement accounts for FY 2010, a move it expects to save $7.4 million in an effort to make up a projected budget [...]

Author: Loki


Posted on: March 30th, 2009

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Category: Diversity and Multiculturalism, Loki

Today, the SU Senate voted to recognize a club that essentially is a college-level chapter of the Unification Church movement. The Unification Church is a new age religion, called a cult by some, founded by a man named Sun Myung Moon in 1954. He claims to have seen Jesus Christ in a vision, who charged [...]

Author: Loki


Posted on: March 10th, 2009

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Category: Activism, Democracy, Loki

Something that came up during the case and in a recent Justice editirial was the decision by Lev and I not to recuse ourselves from the vote on the Bill Ayers / Robert King Senate Money Resolution. The Justice editorial stated, We also take issue with the fact that Senators for the Class of 2011 [...]

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