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What’s Wrong With Student Assembly
By Administrator On October 31, 2011 · In Campus Life, Engagement, Fall 2011 Issue, Online Supplement
I had been leery of Student Assembly from the beginning. My first encounter was last March, when the Graduate Student Employees Union’s Lobby Day and SA’s SUNYpalooza fell on the same day. GSEU members crashed the SUNYpalooza rally, giving the mic to students who were mad that SA, in their name, was advocating against their [...]
The UB Archives are home to 63 boxes of files relating to campus unrest. One even includes a tear gas canister blasted off by police in response to a series of student-led rallies, sit-ins, walk-outs, and occupations that led to 300 state police in full riot gear to confront a group of 2000 students, faculty, [...]
As students, we have a distinct disadvantage: time is not on our side. There are benchmarks to make, papers and exams, and application deadlines that happen on regular cycles for almost everything – scholarships, internships, jobs, our next round of schooling – that limit us as we try to reason about time. Our time is [...]
