On 5/8/13 12:15 PM, New York Year Zero wrote: > http://year0.org/2013/05/01/cooper-union-update > > UPDATE—May 8: Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff have occupied the > office of Jamshed Bharucha, the university’s president. Read their > statement here <http://cusos.org/students-take-presidents-office>. > > On April 23, 2013, Cooper Union’s board of trustees announced that they > will begin charging tuition, ending the university’s 144-year-old mission > of providing free education to all those who merited entry. While it might > seem counterintuitive to get behind a relatively small struggle at one of > the most exclusive universities in the country—an old-fashioned > meritocracy in a world in which a young person’s “potential” is directly > proportionate to their family’s economic station—Cooper Union is by far > the most diverse of all elite colleges: white students are a minority here > and two-thirds of the student body attended public high schools. > > Institutions funded by philanthropy and real estate earnings are clearly > unsustainable as foundations for a quality education, but the school’s > economic problems and its board’s regressive solutions mirror the > situation currently taking place at countless other universities, both > public and private. From CUNY tuition hikes > <http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2011/11/22/occupy-cuny-nyc-students-drop-books-on-police-in-chaotic-tuition-hike-protest> > to the torpedoing of Medgar Evers College > <http://www.psc-cuny.org/clarion/january-2013/middle-states-commission-warns-medgar-evers-college-over-accreditation> > to NYU’s unprecedented land grab > <http://nyunews.com/2013/04/10/protest-3>, students across the city are > fighting back. As student struggles continue across the globe, Cooper > Union is a flashpoint for something much larger than itself. > > Peter Cooper, the school’s founder, railed against the scourge of student > debt a century and a half before the streets of Montreal exploded with > resistance, before New York universities faced a string of militant > occupations, before students in California put their bodies on the line > against tuition hikes and the commodification of higher education. The > ongoing fight at Cooper Union is but one part of the broader struggle > against austerity, debt, and all other symptoms of capitalism. > > On May 1, a 36-page mini-zine that serves as a postscript to last year’s > Why is Cooper Union Being Occupied? > <http://year0.org/2012/12/04/why-is-cooper-union-being-occupied> was > produced and distributed around the city. Collecting recent articles, > editorials, and primary source documents, this basic update outlines the > current situation at Cooper Union, at once a eulogy and a call for new > resistance. > > Download the PDF here > <http://groupaffect.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/cooper-union-may1.pdf>, > read online here <http://www.mediafire.com/view/?sdvyrchjog93e5e>, or come > down to Cooper Union and pick up a hard copy. > > > > http://year0.org/ > https://www.facebook.com/grupo.affect > > A number of now-defunct listservs and mailing lists from our past groups and > projects were consolidated into this list, for news, events, and texts from > AFFECT, a front group for revolutionaries in New York City. > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > To subscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >
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