Forty students from across Ohio demonstrated in front of the Ohio Union Sunday afternoon by burning papers
with their amounts of student debt written on them.
The protest, which started at about 4 pm, opened with a march from inside the Union where students met
earlier for the Ohio Youth Congress. As the students emerged outside, a large banner reading “Take Back
Student Power” was dropped from the top floor of the parking garage next door.
A few students in the march spoke briefly to their peers, and emphasized topics as diverse as tuition hikes and
universities’ complicit attitudes toward conflict minerals.
Before students began burning their student debt signs, they were encouraged to look around at each others’
numbers – which ranged from $20,000 to much more – and chanted “Holla back, I got yo back” in unison.
Though police and security vehicles pulled up near the crowd, they did not interfere when students lit their
debt signs on fire and let them burn on the snowy ground.
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