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What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 10/30/14?

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 10/30/14? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 10/30/14?

What are interns reading for the week of 10/30/14?

Nov 3, 2014 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation

What’s the Real Issue? Blaming AAAD Obscures the UNC Scandal’s Broader Societal Causes

What’s the Real Issue? Blaming AAAD Obscures the UNC Scandal’s Broader Societal Causes What’s the Real Issue? Blaming AAAD Obscures the UNC Scandal’s Broader Societal Causes

UNC’s recently uncovered unprecedented cheating scandal took place in the department of African and Afro American studies, a fact which has raised an age-old, prejudicial arg...

Oct 29, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 10/23/14?

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 10/23/14? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 10/23/14?

What are interns reading for the week of 10/23/14?

Oct 27, 2014 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation

‘Rock the Vote’ Redux: Campaigns Compete for Youth Vote in 2014 Midterm Elections

‘Rock the Vote’ Redux: Campaigns Compete for Youth Vote in 2014 Midterm Elections ‘Rock the Vote’ Redux: Campaigns Compete for Youth Vote in 2014 Midterm Elections

The 2014 midterms are approaching and campaigns from both sides of the aisle are reaching out to youth.

Oct 27, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation and Benji Schwartz

Students Blockade I-75, Stage a ‘Shit-In’ for Trans Justice and Get ‘Real’ With George Will

Students Blockade I-75, Stage a ‘Shit-In’ for Trans Justice and Get ‘Real’ With George Will Students Blockade I-75, Stage a ‘Shit-In’ for Trans Justice and Get ‘Real’ With George Will

From the clock tower to the playground, youth resistance to racism and violence rolls on.

Oct 24, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation

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Can Student Credit Unions Solve the College Affordability Problem? Can Student Credit Unions Solve the College Affordability Problem?

A lesson in how to provide banking centered on people's needs and not on profit for its investors, the Columbia credit union might well ripple well beyond the Morningside campu...

Oct 22, 2014 / StudentNation / Hélène Barthélemy

Poly, NYU’s Latest Global Venture in Building ‘Innovation’ on the Backs of Low-wage Workers

Poly, NYU’s Latest Global Venture in Building ‘Innovation’ on the Backs of Low-wage Workers Poly, NYU’s Latest Global Venture in Building ‘Innovation’ on the Backs of Low-wage Workers

NYU’s Polytechnic School of Engineering or “Poly” facilitates innovation through exploitation of graduate student labor. 

Oct 21, 2014 / StudentNation / Lily Defriend, Gisselle Cunningham, and StudentNation

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 10/16/14?

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 10/16/14? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 10/16/14?

What are interns reading for the week of 10/16/14?

Oct 20, 2014 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation

It’s Time for Everyone to Come Out of the Debt Closet

It’s Time for Everyone to Come Out of the Debt Closet It’s Time for Everyone to Come Out of the Debt Closet

NYU Queer Union tackles student debt with their second annual “Come Out of the Debt Closet” event.

Oct 15, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation

From St. Louis to South LA, American Youth Move the Moment

From St. Louis to South LA, American Youth Move the Moment From St. Louis to South LA, American Youth Move the Moment

Across the country, young people rally, converge and stage sit-ins to end mass criminalization—and more.

Oct 14, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation

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