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Though Brown’s ties to slavery run deeper than other Ivy League schools, according to a reparations activist and a historian, another major Ivy League recipient of slave money was Yale University...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beneath The Ivy, A Legacy of Chains | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

Deadria C. Farmer-Paellmann, a reparations activist who filed suit in 2002 against companies she alleges profited from slavery, claims in her suit that “money from the slave trade financed Yale University’s first endowed professorship, its first endowed scholarship, and its first endowed library fund...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beneath The Ivy, A Legacy of Chains | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

Searching for an activist group at Harvard is like going into a substandard ice cream shop. There are far too many flavors, they are all unhealthy, and in the end, they do not even taste good. Across the political spectrum—from the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) on the left to Harvard Right to Life (HRL) on the right—campus activists hold unrealistic goals and use tactics that are poorly designed and alienating to those who might otherwise support them. Activists would gain wider acceptance and would be far more effective if they were more reasonable...

Author: By Shai D. Bronshtein | Title: Reasonable Activism | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

...Streisand plays a young woman who wants nothing more than to study the Jewish scriptures and the Talmud, but she is unable to do so because of her gender. In real life, it’s becoming increasingly clear that Streisand wants nothing more than to be a political activist, but she is unable to do so because she’s a singer...

Author: By Charles R. Drummond iv | Title: Unfunny Girl | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

...with her four crass words Streisand had finally transformed herself from politically opinionated singer to full-fledged political activist. No longer was her show about pleasing her audience, instead it was about presenting a set of talking points to be made so that the Democrats can take back the House. Her audience had come to see her perform, but her performance took second seat to her political message. Although her display of righteous indignation was met with applause, the applause should really have been for her singing, not for her politics...

Author: By Charles R. Drummond iv | Title: Unfunny Girl | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

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