Innermost Parts

I’m typing this post in bed at home on my laptop. Not that big hulking 10-pound thing I bought three years ago, but a slim, stripped-down “netbook” that lasts three times as long and weighs less than half as much. I’m accessing the Internet without the use of any wires – instead, a router connected [...]

Remember college admissions? Remember how stressful that was?
We passed through that cruel gauntlet, but our brothers and sisters still have to go through it. I want to start talking about how destructive some of the components of the process are.
One famous example – the SAT’s are weighed towards class and race.
Another – Legacy admissions: affirmative [...]

[Hopefully there'll be another, more in-depth case file by the end of the week]
When you’re a religious group with a long history of intolerance and racial animus like the Mormons, interfering in the democratic process to legislate your sexual mores isn’t just something you do in the state next door. It now looks like the [...]

Turns out that Louis Brandeis will get his very own stamp.
As a Louis Brandeis supporter, I am pleased with this decision.
However, here’s some more exciting news: Melvin J. Urofsky is coming to Brandeis!
Allow me to explain. Ever since I wrote a final paper on Louis Brandeis, I’ve realized how much of a great man he [...]

While my introduction to Privilege Watch focused primarily on race, my first case file will also touch on sexism and Christian privilege. The latter is something that I feel I’m exceptionally sensitive to. As a Jewish atheist, public presumptions of faith, especially Christianity, are glaringly obvious to me in a way that it seems Christians [...]

I’m hearing rumors that Brandeis had a success in fundraising this year, and that something like 12M dollars will be put into place to plugging our endowment-created deficit. Does anyone have any specifics on this? Will Faculty get their 401(k)’s back now?
P.S. – Kudos to Ariel Wittenberg at the Hoot for updating during the summer, [...]