Salon.com > Cooper Union http://www.salon.com Mon, 20 May 2013 15:45:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Why care about Cooper Union? http://www.salon.com/2012/12/06/why_care_about_cooper_union/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/06/why_care_about_cooper_union/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:32:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13116015 Since Monday,  eleven undergraduate students have expertly barricaded themselves inside the top floor of New York’s Cooper Union college. The meticulously planned occupation is a tuition fee protest: the prestigious school, known for its teaching in art and engineering, has for over a century offered free education to its students. However, university president Jhamshed Bharucha announced earlier this year that the school would begin charging tuition fees to graduate students.

As students at public institutions around the nation are crippled by student debt, why should anyone care about the introduction of fees for a small number of graduates at a prestigious, privately funded East Village school? I have, of course, begged my own question here: the only reason to care about the Cooper Union occupation is if it is about more than that. There's good reason to say that it is.

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