Award-winning essayist and long-time activist Barbara Ehrenreich spoke at Towson University on October 1st. Giving the university's 2002 Book of the Year lecture, Ehrenreich discussed her experiences researching and writing "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America," and spoke out against war with Iraq and in support of the Student Worker Alliance of Towson, which fights for a living wage for workers contracted by the university.