the US government just sold our loans, or what’s left of them, to a private company–once again demonstrating that like all debt, student debt is profitable for someone.
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
Post-#6Party Thoughts
I’m increasingly immersed in my work out here now (yesterday I interviewed Tom Oberheim and Roger Linn–amazing and educational!), so this will be my last post on the #6party occupation, which ended Sunday when the police were called to escort the demonstrators from the building. (Also, I’d like to blog about other stuff.) 1. Regardless …
Other People’s Statements
#6party in their own words. CKUT press release on the James Admin occupation CKUT response to the Provost’s memo QPIRG statement on the occupation Also, the hate mail is starting to roll in. More on that later.
James Admin Occupation, Day 3: Should Student Government be Allowed to Govern Students?
I’m writing this from a hotel in California, so I can’t very easily tell you what’s going on inside James Admin. Luckily, you have other sources you can turn to for that. Instead, I want to focus on the issues that the occupiers are trying to highlight. Why is a group of independent students occupying …
James Admin Occupation at McGill, Day 2
Things you need to know: 1. Students are occupying the James Administration building in protest of Deputy Provost Morton Mendelson’s efforts to de-fund CKUT and QPIRG. 2. For reasons that will have to be considered in another post, all McGill faculty, staff and students will now apparently receive an email any time anyone at a …
Who owns notes from professors’ lectures?
Today’s Gazette has a story in which I’m quoted about a new online service called Notesac (a rather unfortunate name). While it is mostly a banal case of a) students sharing notes and b) someone skimming profits off something at universities that wasn’t previously fully monetized, the real story here isn’t reported. The unfortunately-named “notesac” …
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The War of 1812: A Comparative Study in Nationalist Mythology
After having an anxiety dream last week about Tuesday morning’s citizenship exam, I got serious about studying for it. We’ve made flash cards and are practicing on a daily basis. It’s probably overkill, since immigrants who have English as a second language and not much schooling also have to be able to pass the test, …
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