Author: Hyder


Posted on: March 12th, 2010

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Category: Context and Connections, Diversity and Multiculturalism, Honesty

Having further thought about, and discussed at great length, The MSA Incident and the subsequent fallout and reaction, I’d like to offer some clarifications and updates to my earlier post. Firstly, I’m really really proud to see the reaction this campus has had. Sahar’s open letter and the responses to the facebook events clearly indicate [...]

Author: Hyder


Posted on: March 10th, 2010

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Category: Author, Diversity and Multiculturalism, Honesty

Hello folks, new blogger here. My name’s Hyder, class of 2012. I’m planning on majoring in bio and IMES, and I’m also interested in politics, activism, Islam in the modern world, South Asia, the list goes on.
I’m a member of the MSA. I first heard about this incident late last week, I think after Friday [...]

Author: Wajida


Posted on: March 9th, 2010

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Category: Activism, Brandeis Values, Honesty

one third of the homeless men in this country are veterans/ and we have the nerve to Support Our Troops/ with pretty yellow ribbons/ while giving nothing but dirty looks to their outstretched hands… no senators’ sons are being sent out to slaughter/ no presidents’ daughters are licking ashes from their lips… our eyes are [...]

Author: Comrade


Posted on: February 22nd, 2010

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Category: Budget Crisis, Honesty, News

Pres. Reinharz has office hours only about once every month.   Today at 9:18am I got an email saying that his office hours which were to be held from 11am-12:30pm were to be canceled “due to unforeseen circumstances”.
Anyway, today  is also the day that the University is to release the recommendations of the Brandeis 2020/ CARS [...]

Author: Lev


Posted on: February 10th, 2010

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Category: Democracy, Honesty, Lev, The Public Good

No, really, fuck the Student Union. In this post, I will thoroughly bash the Student Union. I’ll offer my insight as a former Union insider and then conclude with some ideas on how to make it better. This will be a long post, but the jist of it can be summarized in the title. For [...]

Author: rulm


Posted on: January 26th, 2010

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Category: Activism, Honesty

One year ago today (Jan 26th), President Reinharz announced the closing of the Rose Art Museum. While the museum and its collection remain intact, that status is precarious at best. The administration and its PR team have gone to great lengths to lull the Brandeis community into a false sense of security, suppressing [...]

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