Innermost Parts

If you love reading books that you can physically hold in your hand, how can you also be environmentally conscious? My family collects books- not specifically rare ones, not ones that would necessarily be worth a lot of money, just ones we enjoy reading. My grandmother’s house is cluttered with overwhelming piles of books, and [...]

This post comes directly from Get Involved | Obama for America | 2012. On the heels of reading this blog post honoring the women’s movement, I received an e-mail from NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand telling me about how women are still treated unfairly in the work place, receiving .78 per $1 earned by a man. [...]

This week we electronically sat down with Margaret Huey ’13 to find out about her summer internship at the Boston nonprofit Cradles to Crayons, an organization that often works with Brandeis volunteers groups. She told us about what makes Cradles to Crayons (C2C) special, why she signed on to work there over the summer, what [...]

Imagine a public figure sexually assaulting you in your own home, and then being charged with a crime when you try to lodge a complaint against that figure, because you taped the call. That is the situation that Tiawanda Moore is facing at the moment, after having been the victim of sexual harassment at the [...]

In sad news, famed doctor, politician and civil rights activist Jack Kevorkian died this past Friday from medical complications related to kidney failure and thrombosis. His death leaves the future of the euthanasia movement in unorganized hands. Perhaps selfishly, his death saddens me because I had hoped to bring Kevorkian to speak at Brandeis at [...]