A blog about Brandeis University, progressive politics, and the spirit of Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis on the campus today.
Posted on: March 10th, 2010
Category: Adam, Diversity and Multiculturalism, Massachusetts, News, The Public Good
For a university reeling for a series of PR disasters on a national scale, this can’t be how Brandeis hoped to return to the news. The vandalism at the Muslim Student Association lounge has been picked up by the Boston Herald, the Boston Globe, WCVB-TV Channel 5 Boston, the Huffington Post, and, for some reason, [...]
Posted on: April 28th, 2009
Category: Context and Connections, Honesty, Jon, Massachusetts, The Public Good
A persistent theme of the criticism Brandeis as a whole (and DFA/SDS in particular) have received as a result of Bill Ayer’s visit is the purported connection between the Weather Underground organization and two Brandeis students, Katherine Power and Susan Saxe, who murdered a police officer during a 1970 bank robbery. The assertion of a [...]
Posted on: January 19th, 2009
Category: Activism, Context and Connections, Democracy, Event, Jon, Massachusetts, Protect the Powerless
The passage of Question 2 does not seem to have settled the question of marijuana’s legal status in Massachusetts. While it is currently decriminalized across the state, several municipalities are looking to roll back this development. Some are considering vastly increased fines for smoking in public places, and others seek to impose jail sentences. This [...]
Posted on: November 13th, 2008
Category: Beyond Brandeis, Context and Connections, Massachusetts, Phil
Ever wonder where your power comes from?
Today, I and the other Eco-Reps tabled in the Shapiro Atrium to educate the Brandeis community about our energy consumption.
Perhaps you’ve heard the term “the grid” tossed around in talk about energy use or energy independence. The grid is our electrical infrastructure, composed of sources of generation, transmission, and [...]
There has been some progress from Beacon Hill (the State Capitol) on the Election Reform front since Adam last reported on it. Good! The lowdown is this: the State Leg adjourned before they could take either proposal all the way to being signed by the Governor, which is bad. The good thing is that each [...]
Some bad news and some good news from the good folks at Blue Mass Group.
Bad news: Apparently the Massachusetts ballot initiative banning greyhound/dog racing was challenged in court by the owner of one the racetracks here in MA.
Good news: The Mass. State Supreme Court threw out his legal objections to the initiative, so it [...]
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