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‘Occupy Wall Street’ Participation To Earn Class Credit At Columbia U.
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| CBS New York
Posted on 01/02/2012 3:09:12 PM PST by Nachum
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) Columbia University will offer a new course for upperclassmen and grad students next semester. An Occupy Wall Street class will send students into the field and will be taught by Dr. Hannah Appel, a veteran of the Occupy movement.
The course begins next semester and will be divided between class work at Columbias Morningside Heights campus and fieldwork that will require students to become involved with the Occupy movement outside of the classroom.
The course will be called Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, Social Movement it will be run by the anthropology department.
Appel is a staunch defender of the Occupy movement, in her blog she said that, it is important to push back against the rhetoric of disorganization or a movement without a message coming from left, right and center.
Appel told the New York
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: college; credit; moonbats; occupy; streetcolumbia; wall
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posted on
01/02/2012 3:09:15 PM PST
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
Extra class credit for catching STD’s and tuberculosis?
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posted on
01/02/2012 3:12:04 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
To: Nachum
I wonder how many “students” are enrolled in Columbia’s TEA Party 101 course. Opps! I’m sorry. This is a Marxist university. They don’t like people who think that they’ve been Taxed Enough Already.
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posted on
01/02/2012 3:15:34 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Stop BIG Government Greed!!!!!)
To: Nachum
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posted on
01/02/2012 3:17:14 PM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: Nachum
Per the Columbia U. web site, tuition is $1,392 per credit hour for a typical undergrad. So if this is a three credit course, it will cost a over $4,000 per semester to be part of the “99 percent.”
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posted on
01/02/2012 3:21:20 PM PST
by
Huntress
("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy." --Walter Williams)
To: Nachum
Yet ROTC students still can’t get credit.
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posted on
01/02/2012 3:22:53 PM PST
by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
To: SandRat
She's got a bad case of pixelitis.
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posted on
01/02/2012 3:23:30 PM PST
by
Huntress
("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy." --Walter Williams)
To: Huntress
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posted on
01/02/2012 3:26:50 PM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: Nachum
If I were a Columbia student pursuing a normal academic degree, I think I would sue the university for damages.
ML/NJ
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posted on
01/02/2012 3:36:38 PM PST
by
ml/nj
To: Nachum
The course will be called Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, Social Movement it will be run by the anthropology department. Which department will run the "Rape, Theft, Bowel Movement" course?
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posted on
01/02/2012 3:54:33 PM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: Nachum
Not that I expect any Occutards to get the point, but how much is tuition?
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posted on
01/02/2012 3:55:31 PM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: FlingWingFlyer
I was wondering that too. When will they give credits to students who want to participate in a TEA Party?
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posted on
01/02/2012 4:36:51 PM PST
by
july4thfreedomfoundation
(The "Occupy Wall Street" losers should try occupying their local employment office. GET A JOB!)
To: Nachum
This is truly embarrassing....this kind of “honor” tends to drive me to the “America is finished” camp....
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posted on
01/02/2012 4:38:22 PM PST
by
B.O. Plenty
(Elections have consequences....)
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posted on
01/02/2012 5:47:59 PM PST
by
RedMDer
(Forward With Confidence!)
To: Nachum
Deficate on a cop car, make the paper, automatic “A”.
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posted on
01/02/2012 6:11:02 PM PST
by
Harley
(Will Rogers never met Harry Reid.)
To: Nachum
Columbia University, the Yugo of the Ivy League.
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posted on
01/02/2012 7:23:18 PM PST
by
ExCTCitizen
(If we stay home in November '12, don't blame 0 for tearing up the CONSTITUTION!!)
To: Nachum
That should look good on a resume, if you are looking for job shoveling horse manure.
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posted on
01/02/2012 8:21:41 PM PST
by
depressed in 06
( Where is the 1984 Apple Super Bowl ad when we need it?)
To: Nachum
Aw, c’mon. Occupy is so 2012.
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posted on
01/22/2014 8:17:23 AM PST
by
Catmom
(We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
To: Nachum
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posted on
01/22/2014 8:18:05 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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