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Substance-free, but amusing: Emily Rowe, a candidate for student government president at the University of Western Ontario, has made a campaign video riffing on the Discovery Channel’s “Boom De Ya Da” promo.
It’s pretty well done. You can watch it below.
(In case you’re wondering, Rowe’s platform calls for establishing a university liquor store, installing more laptop outlets in public campus spaces, and composting dining hall food waste.)
Thanks to Joey Coleman for the heads-up.
Last semester, Brenda Councillor was a student senator at Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas, and a vocal critic of university president Linda Sue Warner.
This semester she’s an alumna.
And she’s still not quite sure how it happened.
Councillor had one required course left to take as the fall semester ended. She was enrolled for the spring, and settled into her dorm room. But over the holidays, the registrar called her to congratulate her on her graduation.
The university was waiving her final required course and refunding her spring tuition and fees. They were also locking her out of her dorm room, shutting down her student email account, and mailing her a (misspelled) diploma.
When Councillor, who had circulated a petition in the fall demanding President Warner’s removal, wrote to the university’s vice president for academic affairs to ask why she had been involuntarily graduated, he blew her off.
“My priority is working with current Haskell Indian Nations University students,” he wrote. “Your concerns as a recent graduate of Haskell Indian Nations University in American Indian Studies will not be considered at this time.”
Ouch.
11:40 am Update: Linda Sue Warner, the president of Haskell Indian Nations University, has been summoned to Washington DC for a meeting with her university’s regents and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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.
As promised, thousands of Arizona students descended on their state capitol on Wednesday to protest a planned 40% cut to their state university system.
Bused in by the hundreds from each of the state’s public universities, the students eventually amassed a crowd estimated at as much as 2500. Media coverage was intense, including news pieces, editorials, and even a slide show.
Thanks to the Arizona Students’ Association for forwarding links and info on the protest, including this great piece on how the planning and logistics of the protest were handled.
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