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 [...]
When are we all going to start talking about the really high cost of going to Brandeis? I know a bunch of people who are being forced to drop out because Brandeis simply keeps raising tuition and costing too much.
This is not cool.
I don’t know why, but it seems like no one on campus is [...]
Posted on: August 17th, 2009
Category: Beyond Brandeis, Break Blogging, Diversity and Multiculturalism, Honesty, Jon, Protect the Powerless
[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 [...]
Posted on: August 5th, 2009
Category: Beyond Brandeis, Break Blogging, Context and Connections, Diversity and Multiculturalism, Honesty, Jon, Protect the Powerless
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 [...]
Posted on: August 3rd, 2009
Category: Beyond Brandeis, Context and Connections, Diversity and Multiculturalism, Jon, Protect the Powerless
It seems that ever since Obama’s election, affluent white hetero Christians – by far the most economically and politically powerful bloc in the country, far beyond their real numbers – have suddenly been waking up in the middle of the night, screaming “Holy shit, I’m not nearly as privileged as I used to be!” Their [...]
There’s a lot to take away from this news article by Hannah Kirsch, Donation goes to Rose.
Most importantly, we see that Jehuda is still hiding information from Students and Faculty.
A donor has provided funds to help pay the Rose Art Museum’s operating budget for the remainder of this fiscal year, according to a Feb. 26 [...]
