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What happens when a bright-eyed South Carolina sophomore stumbles into a Leninist rally in NYC?
Five posts that have drawn me in over the last few days…
- Young evangelicals turning away from right-wing bigotry (via Sarah Burris).
- Haunting photographs from abandoned Detroit schools.
- A bill in Connecticut would put high school students on local boards of education.
- New college grads are flocking to public service jobs.
- Martha Stewart takes a gratuitous swipe at college students.
Jacob Blumenfeld, a member of the New School In Exile activist group, was arrested outside the home of New School president Bob Kerrey at 3:55 am on Thursday morning. Blumenfeld had allegedly been spraypainting the words “Bye Bob” on Kerrey’s front door.
Sarah Paley, Kerrey’s wife, said that Blumenfeld and two other individuals had attracted police attention because they wearing ski masks in mild weather. Blumenfeld, the only one of the three who was apprehended, is reportedly facing five criminal counts.
The New School In Exile announced in February that they would “shut down” the university on April 1 if Kerrey and New School vice president Jim Murtha did not resign by that date. Their deadline is now sixteen days away.
A Friday morning post on the NSIE blog made the following declaration: “We stand together, We have Solidarity, We do what we do because of love for each other and love for our future.”
In a new investigative article on a company that writes students’ papers for cash, the Chronicle of Higher Education outed four of the company’s customers.
The article, which is behind the Chronicle‘s subscription wall, gives the name, college, and field of two undergraduates and two grad students, including a PhD candidate in public policy who, they say, outsourced the literature review section of his dissertation to the paper mill Essay Writers. The article also names that student’s blog, which was last updated in July 2008.
The Chronicle was able to identify the students through personal information they posted to the company’s private website.
Via Jill at Feministe:
“Thus I have at a comparatively early age lost all my motivating faiths, faith in the righteous cause of women, faith in the recreating powers of science, faith in the ennobling possibilities of education. This is indeed a very sad state. Worse, I have become that futile creature, a writer. I had rather make small black marks on paper than go through any experience I can name. The sensory pleasures have pretty largely ceased to be; I can sit here in my quiet study and desire to desire something, something to touch or taste or see or hear, but the desire does not come. If I were building a Utopia, I would take away our memories, so we would start fresh every day, and then I would endow each of us with strong, lusty desires, and I would give us strong, eager feet with which to run swiftly and determinedly after our desires. I would leave principles out of my Utopia, even feminism; in place of principles I would give us all a magnificent and flaming audacity.”
–Lorine Livingston Pruette, circa 1926.
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