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. [...]
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 [...]
Want more even more Sahar in your life? I made a personal miniblog to document things that make me smile and keep track of my adventures. Also sometimes writing for Innermost Parts feels constricting. I have to worry about style, staying on topic, being witty, etc. So this’ll be a place to let off steam [...]
I just finished a reported New Yorker article by George Packer on the modern senate. It’s multifaceted and hard to to summarize. You should read it. Anyways, it got me thinking about our Senate. You know, the Union Senate. I don’t think anyone has a good opinion of the Senate. Its composition seems to change [...]
That EJ Dionne article continues to impress. Let me just excerpt 2 paragraphs that I found gripping: And I must pause to praise the following sentence: “No one is more temperamentally conservative than a Manhattan leftist living in a rent-controlled apartment and holding tenure at a university; his or her way of life is inevitably [...]
