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Protest and Pushback on Campus (Movements, Social Justice, Student Movements, US Wars and Military Action, Peace Activism, Society)

Student protests against the presence of military recruiters on campus
are on the rise. So are angry--sometimes violent--pushbacks from
conservative students and campus police.

Ryan Grim
The Young Chickenhawks (Movements, Social Justice, Conservatives and the American Right, Student Movements, Peace Activism, Politics, Society)

Young Republican activists on campus love George
W. Bush and zealously support the war. But are they willing to fight?
Not really.

Clarisse Profilet
Generation Next (Movements, Student Movements, Society)

As far as I could tell, the only students who remained seated for the
duration of Bill Clinton's keynote address at the Campus Progress
National Student Conference this week were two Nation<

Sam Graham-Felsen
Keep Talking (Movements, Higher Education, Student Movements, Society)

The origins of the Princeton filibuster protest.

Asheesh Kapur Siddique
Harvard Divests (Movements, Regions and Countries, Higher Education, Student Movements, Society)

Students succeed in making the university pull out of a Chinese oil company funding slaughter in Sudan.

Sam Graham-Felsen
Coke: The New Nike (Movements, Corporations, Student Movements, Society)

A growing student movement is taking the company to task for its record on human rights around the globe.

Michael Blanding
Everyday Struggle (Movements, Urban Issues, Student Movements, Youth, Politics, Society)

A talk with hip-hop historian Jeff Chang.

Mark Hatch-Miller
Are Students Red or Blue? (Movements, Voting, Student Movements, Youth, Politics, Society)

The war rages on to win hearts and minds on colleges campuses.

Sam Graham-Felsen
Now Hear This! (Movements, Presidential Election 2004, Student Movements, Politics, Society)

A once-sleepy population of artists and their fans has emerged as a loud and active proponent of political change.

Hillary Frey
'Deanie Babies' Grow Up (Movements, Political Figures, Presidential Election 2004, Student Movements, Politics, Society)

There may be an overlooked Dean legacy brewing.

Anya Kamenetz

Blogs

For-Profit Higher Ed and the Occupy Movement
Dana Goldstein

A Harper's journalist recently went undercover as a University of Phoenix student. What he found was an "education" that was anything but--and a prime example of how the 1 percent are profiting off the less fortunate. 

February 16, 2012
Berkeley Faculty Votes to Condemn Chancellor for Police Violence
Jon Wiener

A nearly unanimous vote at our greatest public university.

November 28, 2011
Free Speech, the Pro-Israel Lobby, and the Case of the 'Irvine 11'
StudentNation

The “Irvine 11” are fast becoming First Amendment poster children. A closer look at the long history of several external organizations’ interest in their case, however, suggests that these students are facing more than a violation of free speech.

October 6, 2011
Five Ways Young Americans Can Fight Back Against Student Loan Debt
StudentNation

Young people may feel helpless about the corporatocracy, but they have the potential to overcome many barriers.

September 27, 2011
'Default: The Student Loan Documentary'
StudentNation

Most recent graduates are entering the “real world” only to find a pathetic job market coupled with a national average of $24,000 in student debt.

June 22, 2011
A Jeffersonian Challenge to the Tories of Fitzwalkerstan
John Nichols

Activists challenging Walker administration assaults on public education and on college students from immigrant families disrupt Wisconsin legislative hearing with a reading from the Declaration of Independence.

June 3, 2011
Students in Burkina Faso Protest in Solidarity With Teachers
StudentNation

Students in this West African nation are supporting their teacher's demands that the government increase their wage and reduce the class size. Demonstrations have spread across the country in response to unemployment, the rising cost of living, inadequate delivery of services and state repression under a president who has been in power for 24 years.

May 23, 2011
Arizona's Choice Today: Tucson Students Lead New Civil Rights Movement
StudentNation

Stumbling further into the quagmire of a national public relations disaster, drastic new measures by the Tucson Unified School District officials have turned the “manufactured crisis” over the Ethnic Studies/Mexican American Studies Program into a troubling moral crisis for the city—and the country.

May 3, 2011
Will Exploitative Corporate Practices Go the Way of South African Apartheid?
StudentNation

The year was 1986. Yale University President Bart Giamatti was on his way back to his office from a birthday lunch when he stumbled upon Mike Morand, a student leader of the anti-apartheid movement on campus.

April 22, 2011
Updates On Last Week's Occupations at Dickinson, Milwaukee, Berkeley
StudentNation

Last week’s March 2 National Day of Action saw scores of protests in more than a dozen states—including two that ended in arrests and one that ended with a bunch of people taking their clothes off.

March 7, 2011
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