Posted on 04/18/2005 4:03:54 AM PDT by Lance Romance
On Wednesday, Emerson College students rallied on Boston Common to support the school's embattled faculty union. Thursday, student activists at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst campaigned for a radical plan to make public colleges free to all students. And on Friday, hundreds of Boston College students wore T-shirts and boycotted classes to show their support for gay students and employees.
Last week's packed protest schedule offered evidence that college students, often thought to be disengaged, have found causes that inspire them to take up their bullhorns and march. Their causes are more diverse than the tightly focused agendas of past generations, specialists said, and their goals may be more modest: changing a campus or neighborhood instead of the world.
''This generation is perceived as not active, and that's wrong," said Liz Hollander, executive director of Campus Compact, a national nonprofit group that promotes civic and social responsibility among college students on more than 900 campuses.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Hmmm...I wonder what the paper would say if they wore pro chastity tee shirts?
http://216.109.117.135/search/cache?p=pro+chastity+tee+shirts&ei=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&u=www.olmc1.org/ed_jrhigh/news_012003.pdf&w=pro+chastity+tee+shirts&d=C2C395E8E1&icp=1&.intl=us
teen sent home for wearing pro life teeshirt
Wonder if Campus Compact benefitted from Oil For Food?
The only reason to waste $40K to go to a fancy undergraduate school is to get a leg up on applying to graduate program at the same school. Employers don't care where you went to undergraduate school.
Follow the money...
It always makes sense to boycott classes that you are paying for.
If I was the instructor, I'd have picked this day to give a comprehensive review on the upcoming midterm exam.
Oh come on now!!! Like any of these "student activists" were really going to follow this "hunger strike" through to its ultimate conclusion.
Laughable!!! What a joke!
Interesting article in my newspaper yesterday. It seems parents are finally catching on and wondering if sending their kid to college as it is today is worth it -- silly classes, indoctrination, sky-high tuition -- and I live in a liberal state. One parent quoted said he wasn't willing to send his son to a particular college and told him if he wanted to go, he could pay for it.
Unfortunately, WAAAYY too many parents are willing to 'pay the price' and 'buy the name'. There is a way to cut the cost in half - Wellesley College, a hot bed of lesbianism and socialist feminism - a neighbor's daughter attended for her last 2 years of college to get the degree (first two years she went to a local junior college). Voila! the education was half-price, as an upper classman she didn't have to fend off lesbians in the dorms, she only had to deal with 1/2 the anti-mail, pro-lesbian indoctrination from lecturers, and she can go around telling everyone that she is a Wellesley graduate.
That's the way to do it. When you go in as a junior, you're older and know the ropes so you won't be as easily bamboozled as an incoming freshman would probably be.
I was too busy smoking pot and dropping acid to notice....meh....
Oops! That would be 'anti-male' not 'anti-mail'. Sorry.
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