Over 300 students and community supporters gathered on the Oval on March 1 to protest student debt, tuition increases, and a range of other issues relevant to college students.
Over 300 students and community supporters gathered on the Oval on March 1 to protest student debt, tuition increases, and a range of other issues relevant to college students.
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Students of Occupy Ohio State held a teach-in on education, Tuesday Feb. 28. The event centered on various speakers covering topics involving student power or lack of power and increasing corporate influence at Ohio State. The floor was opened up for discussion after each speaker. “Ready to do stuff? It’s time to take on an active role,” said fourth year Molly Shack in the introductory remarks.
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The most tragic part about all of last Wednesday was that if you went to the mobile site, Wikipedia was still up. Wikipedia didn’t actually go offline; the statement was symbolic. Nevertheless, according to the Tweetosphere, approximately 25 million papers went unwritten yesterday as a result, many of them by intelligent young college students like yourself bewildered as to how anyone conducted research before the age of a user-edited encyclopedia. The decline of higher education has been oft-bemoaned, and though I normally find such arguments to be facile and historically ignorant (society is as stupid/violent/horny as it ever was), this Harvard entrance exam from 1869 gives me a great deal of pause (remember, that these were the kids playing football without helmets). The decline of higher education is real, and it’s all Rick Scott’s fault. I remember sitting in...
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Gotta love Fox News’ hard-hitting journalism: last week, the news giant released an article with the headline “Pagan Mom challenges Bible giveaway at North Carolina school,” and I really only clicked on it to see if the “Pagan Mom” was actually Pagan and not just a non-Christian. (Hey, this is Fox News we’re talking about…) But it turns out the woman in question practices Witchcraft, and was filing a complaint against her local school district because her 12-year-old had come home with a Bible one day. While it turned out the school hadn’t exactly given him the Bible – a bunch of them had been dropped off by a Christian nonprofit, and the school just told the students they were there for whoever wanted them – Pagan Mom1 tried to give the school some spellbooks for students to peruse,...
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So if you haven’t noticed, capitalism produces a whole lot of stuff. Capitalists are constantly coming up with new ways to make stuff faster, new ways to make stuff cheaper, with new methods of making stuff, and even new industries to make different stuff. A famous economist dude named Joseph Schumpeter even came up with a concept called “creative destruction” where new ways of making stuff are so much better than old ways of making stuff, that they totally wipe them out. It’s a pretty badass name, and it gets to the heart of how we think of “innovation” in our society. We think of innovation in terms of groundbreaking technological advances or incredible increases in production and efficiency. Innovation has a distinctly ‘economic’ flavor to it in our society. Good old ‘American innovation’ is a catalyst to growth,...
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