Public Discourse

By Nick Paris & Sal Ingram

City on a Hill Press

Published December 1, 2011 at 2:47 am

Question: What do you think was accomplished by the occupation of Hahn Student Services?

(from left to right)

“It showed solidarity with the rest of the Occupy movements, especially Occupy Education. But it doesn’t sound like it was very effective. It would have been more effective if there were more protesters.”
Kendra Yoshinaga
First-year, Kresge
Undeclared

“It was symbolic because it is Student Services, but I’m confused [about] why Hahn was occupied when they are not the people in charge of making the tuition. “
Rose Greenberg
First-year, Kresge
Undeclared

“It put pressure on administrators to be aware of the students’ demands and to take them seriously. It also raised awareness of the UC-sanctioned pepper spraying of students at UC Davis.”
Andrew Kunz
Third-year, Porter
Music

“Not much. It didn’t raise a noticeable concern from the other parts of campus and it didn’t have much efficacy in raising student awareness.”
Hannah Monday
Fourth-year, Kresge
Neuroscience

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James

Thank you Hannah for bringing some common sense and reason to the discussion but this comes with actual knowledge about the university that a fourth year would or should have aquired and not one that a freshmen, impressed by a lowly act of civil disobedience realizes. If anything it was an inconvenience from people who wish it was the 60′s and didn’t want to travel far to make noise.