Comments on: Students Occupying DePaul University to Stop Tuition Hike

By: Angus Johnston

Angus Johnston — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:06:36 +0000

That argument would be a lot stronger, Jamica, if the DREAM Act gave anyone a “free ride” on college tuition. Or if it had passed.

It didn’t.

By: Jamica

Jamica — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:15:12 +0000

BE real for ONCE. Don’t these educated kids and young adults realize that the DREAM ACT passed by OBAMA is giving illegal aliens, yes NON Americans free rides through college, while thier parents have to pay. YEt, they don’t even seem to acknowledge this so how can we take their anger seriously? And as usual, the media is too weak to confront or expose the truth about illegal aliens in San DIego and LA UNIFIED schools costing California millions of dollars to educate them. It’s so insane that few even mention this that it makes the entire occupy everything a joke. It’s so unreal. SO phony. SO besides the point. You aren’t looking at the chronic etiology of the PROBLEM, which is illegal aliens collapsing our educational and social service programs. Duh. Duh. Duh. BUt go ahead, hold hands in your little fantasy world and pretend this isn’t a major problem.
A new study from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) examines the costs of education, health care and incarceration of illegal aliens, and concludes that the costs to Californians is $10.5 billion per year. http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/immigrationnaturalizatio/a/caillegals.htm.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:13:45 +0000

Glad to see a reference to the Coalition Against Corporate Higher Education (CACHE) in this post, but that organization is providing more than just web space for DePaul students to blog at. The push to occupy at DePaul this week, while no doubt emerging organically from the efforts of brave and committed DePaul students, was also the culmination of Chicago’s March 1 National Day of Student Action to Defend Education, which CACHE organized. The day included actions at Columbia College in downtown Chicago, which is facing program cuts and whose part time faculty union (P-fac) has been in the midst of a protracted labor struggle, a city-wide student rally in Grant Park, and a march to Chase bank where CACHE engaged in acts of protest and political theater to call attention to Chase’s role in the ongoing student debt crisis and the larger crisis of American higher ed. Members of CACHE played a crucial role at the DePaul occupation, struggling in solidarity with DePaul students and reminding DePaul’s administrator’s that the fight at DePaul is part of the bigger fight – one that implicates students around the country and, indeed, around the world – against the sacrifice of higher ed at the altar of private profit. This is not simply a matter of credit where credit is due – the struggle is more important than any individual or group. But a central point of the struggle is to remind people that issues like tuition hikes and student debt – the inevitable consequence of those hikes – are necessarily collective issues, requiring, in turn, collective action.

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