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I haven’t had the chance to read it yet, but I’m passing it along anyway. Here’s a collection of three essays by participants in last semester’s occupation/protest at the New School in NYC — a “list of lessons and thoughts,” as the introduction puts it.
The link is to a 25-page PDF.
The National Union of Students, Britain’s main national student organization, is calling for an end to the nation’s wave of student sit-ins protesting Israeli policies toward Gaza.
“The protesters need to find new ways to campaign vocally without causing disruption to students on campus,” NUS president Wes Streeting told CNN.
A committee of the Penn State student government is looking to create a state student association to represent the interests of Pennsylvania’s publicly-funded colleges and universities.
They face a hurdle in the fact that university regulations prohibit the use of student government funds to support “a legislative lobby or to a registered student organization whose primary purpose is to influence legislation.”
The group, tentatively named the Pennsylvania Student Association, was inspired in part by the creation of the Texas Student Association last year.
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