Occupy Colleges

Occupy, Obama Speak Out As National Student Loan Debt Hits $1 Trillion

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 04.25.2012

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Among the couple hundred protesters who gathered in Union Square Wednesday then marched down Broadway, beating drums and holding signs, one wore a bla...

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Who's Still Flying The Occupy Banner?

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 04.19.2012

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Spring is here, and the Occupy movement is emerging from its winter hibernation. Or that’s what the occupiers are saying, anyway. With the tents...

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Embattled Police Chief Resigns After Notorious Pepper Spray Incident

AP | Posted 04.18.2012

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DAVIS, Calif. — The police chief who oversaw the University of California, Davis, police department during its notorious pepper-spraying of Occu...

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Students In California, New York Call For Millionaire's Tax

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.05.2012

NEW YORK -- Thousands of students, union members and Occupy protesters are gathering Monday at the New York and California state capitols, calling for...

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Occupy's Second Wave Spreads To Campuses With Protests Against Student Debt

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 03.02.2012

Students from colleges and high schools around the country gathered Thursday for protests and rallies called the National Day of Action for Education....

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College Students Plan U.S. Walkout On Thursday

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.01.2012

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NEW YORK -- Thousands of U.S. college students will walk out of class Thursday in a coordinated day of protest against what may be another year of sig...

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Occupy Student Activists Take Their Message To Wall Street Recruiters

Inside Higher Ed | Posted 01.13.2012

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Most students involved in the Occupy movement can’t just pick up and leave for Wall Street. So some at elite colleges have been letting Wall Street ...

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Corporate Campuses

Paul Stoller | Posted 03.09.2012

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The astounding rise in the salaries of college and university presidents symbolizes a disturbing transformation of the university, a transformation that underscores a shift in our cultural values.

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FINALLY: UC Berkeley Students Get A Break

HuffingtonPost.com | Robin Wilkey | Posted 12.15.2011

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While local support for the Occupy movement has been wavering, it seems the climate it created is starting to take place at one of the group's main ta...

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Occupy Wall Street: A Generation Of 20-Somethings Airs Its Grievances, Its Frustrations

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 12.07.2011

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NEW YORK -- Since graduating a year and a half ago from the Rhode Island School of Design, Nate Barchus hasn't shaken a nagging feeling: that he's ai...

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Letter to President Obama From a Concerned College Student

Krystie Yandoli | Posted 01.22.2012

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With tears streaming down my face and a sinking feeling in my stomach, I ask you this simple task: please make an official statement about both incidents at UC Berkeley and UC Davis.

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Occupy Wall Street's Student Supporters Walk Out Of Class In Solidarity

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 11.17.2011

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NEW YORK -- On a damp Thursday afternoon, several hundred students walked out of class and gathered in Union Square Park to demonstrate continued soli...

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Let's Storm The Ivory Towers!

Marcus Baram | Posted 01.09.2012

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In other countries, such as England and France, students have taken to the streets by the thousands to protest much smaller tuition increases. Where is that spirit here in America?

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#OccupyRooftops

Lisa Curtis | Posted 01.02.2012

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Whether November produces "occupied" college campuses, massive bank transfers or community solar projects remains to be seen. Undoubtedly, it is poised to be a month to remember.

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Occupy Colleges: Students To Teach-In and Walk Out In Third Act of Support for OWS

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 01.02.2012

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NEW YORK -- College students at more than 70 campuses around the country will hold teach-ins late Wednesday and on Thursday as a way of building aware...

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Why I Am Supporting Occupy Wall Street

Kathleen Adams | Posted 01.01.2012

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I am a supporter of Occupy Wall Street because Americans are working longer hours and harder, but everyday we fear being fired, or having to work for a much lower rate.

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College Dropouts and Students Occupy Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 12.25.2011

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NEW YORK -- This past May, Audrey Hollingsworth had finally reached her limit. The rising debt and chronic joblessness among her friends, combined...

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Oberlin College Students Join Occupy Wall Street Protesters

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 12.24.2011

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NEW YORK -- As their classmates spent fall break putting finishing touches on fellowship and graduate school applications, a group of Oberlin College ...

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Why We Are -- Or Are Not -- Occupying

Posted 12.21.2011

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The Occupy Wall Street has taken the nation by storm, inevitably transfixing students at hundreds of college campuses across America. As the Huffingto...

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Why I Occupy

Tarif Ahmed | Posted 12.21.2011

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The occupations have given us a chance to actually participate in our country. Let us use this chance wisely.

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Our Predecessors Would Be Ashamed

Jessica Johnson | Posted 12.21.2011

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Call me misinformed, but I'm trying to pass Calc I -- not worry about the country's problems on a day-to-day basis.

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The Disappointing Sheen of Occupy Wall Street

Hilary Hurst | Posted 12.21.2011

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Instead of revolutionaries who understood the cause of and believed in a specific fix for their grievances, I saw a mass of upsets more interested in complaining with the group than creating tangible changes for the systems that failed them.

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The Economics of Occupy Wall Street

Will Simpson | Posted 12.21.2011

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As a plucky member of the 99%, it would be easy for me to jump on the bandwagon. But what would I be supporting?

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Big On Emotion, Low On Action

Meghan Frick | Posted 12.21.2011

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I am 21 years old, and I won't be occupying anything.

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Do Not Occupy Wall Street

Erica Hernandez | Posted 12.21.2011

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Participating in the Occupy Wall Street movement is not a productive way for college students to effect change. What they should do is study to be the people who will take over Wall Street in the future.

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