NU Students Join Occupy Colleges Walkout

By Matthew Gannon on Oct 5, 2011

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Josh Reynolds, AP. 10/3/11.

With Wall Street and Boston successfully Occupied, now the focus of the Occupy movement is working on colleges. Today, an Occupy Colleges walkout is planned across the country as college students are being asked not to go to school. You all know students need a reason to skip a class.

Today's reason, according to an unnamed Northeastern student:

"We pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to an education industry that continuous to mimic the irresponsible, unaccountable, and unethical financial practices of Wall Street."

In New York, labor unions are expected to join an OccupyWall Street march today.

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  • mosfette

    I'm sorry. All I heard was "We pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for education because we made the decision to  go to an institution that charges $40k a year instead of state school and were too lazy to seek out the scholarships that exist for everything from growing up in a certain town to being an underwater basket weaving pro.  Our solution is to skip out on the education that we complain costs us too much while hopefully making our Modern English Literature degrees even less valuable."

  • Michael Ellis Day

    You're right, that's all you heard.  Wasn't what anyone was saying, but a person can only hear what he or she chooses to hear.

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