They're taking the battle for the future of SUNY to youtube:
Here's a link to the statewide SUNY SA!
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Monday, November 08, 2010
The Arts and Humanities Strike Back!
At places like Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Brandeis.... And this will stop this--
--how?
I mean, more power to y'all, but now it's time to throw your weight behind public higher education and try to influence state and federal governments' decision-making and resource-allocating, right?
"If, because of cutbacks and lack of support from the federal government, literature and the arts and other aspects of the humanities become just parlor musings of the wealthy, we would have made a huge mistake," Dartmouth's president, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, said in an interview. "Literature and the arts should not only be for kids who go to cotillion balls to make polite conversation at parties."
--how?
I mean, more power to y'all, but now it's time to throw your weight behind public higher education and try to influence state and federal governments' decision-making and resource-allocating, right?
Monday, November 01, 2010
OMG, This Is Fracking Awesome
Although why they don't just have the prof say "fucking," I have no idea!
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