The Goodspeed Update

Community Information Corps: Opportunity to get involved in post-Katrina research
Scholar in New Orleans issues a call for help conducting research about race and inequality in the Katrina response.

Peter Levine: “A Mild Protest”
This is hilarious, and sad. What self-respecting activist turns up at an administration meeting to chastise them for failing to “encourage” activism!

Graduates, Adjuncts, and […]

Update, 10/24/06: Please visit the new blog Rethink College Park
College Park wants to be more “college town.” It turns out the home of the University of Maryland isn’t very college-town-y: it’s part auto-based sprawl, part dismal inner-ring suburb, and nothing like Tuscon, Ann Arbor, Madison, or any other of the country’s great college towns.
The remarkable […]

As a newly accepted University of Maryland graduate student, was all set to attend their 8th annual “Maryland Day” event planned for tomorrow. Unfortunately, some last minute work travel popped up so I won’t be able to go. This year the annual end-of-year event is doubling as a 150th anniversary, and they have all kinds […]

So, the second piece of correspondence coming my direction from the College Park area behind the admissions letter notifying my acceptance to grad school was a letter from the “Graduate Hils & Graduate Gardens Apartment Homes” at 3424 Tulane Drive in nearby Hyattsville, Maryland. The letter congratulated me on my admissions to the university urging […]