At a department lunch at the Faculty Club the other day, my professor leaned across the round table and asked me, over the muffled conversations of students and teachers, why I had chosen Brandeis. I answered him honestly.
I'll be honest-I can't wait for the election season to be over. I've found it completely frustrating-the usual game of political finger-pointing, but without the same historically groundbreaking elements of gender and race that captivated the American public four years ago.
I'll be honest-I can't wait for the election season to be over. I've found it completely frustrating-the usual game of political finger-pointing, but without the same historically groundbreaking elements of gender and race that captivated the American public four years ago.
To be honest, writing about feminism makes me a little uncomfortable. I guess I'm sensitive about sounding like a grumpy bra-burner or some other negative female stereotype.
I was out of the country for most of this past spring, but even from southern Spain I could pick out the signs that usually appear at the beginning of an election year. From my-albeit short-life experience when it comes to presidential elections, it seems like we can start to observe the mood of a presidential race once fall begins.
One of my best friends recently told me a Facebook horror story that completely changed my attitude about the site.
Maybe this is melodramatic, but I think I was emotionally scarred by my first tour of the Brandeis campus. I'll always remember my tour guide, stocky with a Jew-fro and wearing linen harem pants, booming about how ambitious Brandeis students are as we rounded Usen Castle.
I hate the 24-hour news cycle. I think it's bad for us as a society?it controls the way we learn about and process the news and affects how we understand our world.
As I sat alone in the deserted movie theater at 2:10 p.m. last Thursday watching Footloose by myself, I had an epiphany.
Across the country, Americans are rallying to express their growing frustration with their political leaders.
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