Can you imagine complaining about going to Berkeley for $10,000 a year?

…or so saith the comment I just read in a forwarded email.
I have been reading similar comments all day, in between my visits to campus today. UCLA has been in an uproar– albeit a carefully orchestrated, mostly polite uproar,  for a few days now.
The comment was made regarding the protests at Berkeley and UCLA and [...]

Classroom teaching, for the love

Like a first kiss, the beginning of the school year holds immeasurable promise and the chance to begin anew and discover the world and ourselves in a different way. Delivered without notes, award-winning playwright Margaret Edson, a Smith College alumna who teaches kindergarten in the Atlanta public school system, had quite a bit to say at Smith’s [...]

Countin’ down the minutes

This Thursday is May 1st, or International Workers Day. It is historically a day of protests–Ok, granted, I think some cultures have done other things on May Day like danced around some decorated twigs or something. (But not us punk rock socialists! YEAH!). For the past several years, immigrant rights groups have organized and [...]