Students Occupying DePaul University to Stop Tuition Hike
Fourteen DePaul University students have staged a campus occupation against the university’s tuition policy — the first occupation at a US Catholic university this year. On Thursday evening, students...
View ArticleUSSA’s 65th National Student Congress
I’ve just arrived in Madison, Wisconsin for the 65th annual congress of the United States Student Association. USSA, a confederation of student governments and state student associations, is the oldest...
View ArticleUSSA’s Student Power Turn
Every year the delegates to the United States Student Association’s National Student Congress must approve the Association’s campaigns for the year — establishing priorities for what the group will...
View ArticleTowson Student Looking to Create White Student Union
After a stint heading up a group called Youth for Western Civilization, a student at Maryland’s Towson University is looking to start a White Student Union on campus. I wrote about the White Student...
View ArticleU of Florida Students Divided Over Honoring Segregation-Era President
When the student union at the University of Florida was built in 1967, students requested that it be named in honor of outgoing university president J. Wayne Reitz. Today, students are fighting over...
View ArticleNigeria Campus Massacre May Be Linked To Student Union Election
As many as forty people were killed early Tuesday morning in a student hostel adjoining Federal Polytechnic Mubi, a college in northeastern Nigeria, and authorities are trying to piece together why....
View ArticleUC Irvine Student Government Passes Israel Occupation Divestment Resolution
The student government at the University of California at Irvine last night voted unanimously to divest itself of investments in companies that support the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, and to...
View ArticleCollege Administrators Remove Crusading Student Government President
Administrators at a California community college removed the elected student body president from office earlier this year over charges that students and faculty claim were concocted in an effort to...
View ArticleRay Glass, Student Governments, and Student Unionism
“Are Student Governments Obsolete?”, an early-70s essay by New York student activist Ray Glass, has enjoyed a boomlet of attention in recent months. A couple of people put the text up online, and it’s...
View ArticleIn Defense of Student Government
A few weeks back I wrote up some thoughts on one of the classic essays in American student activist history — Ray Glass’s “Are Student Governments Obsolete?” In that piece I argued that there was a...
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