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Cooper Union is not reeling in the wake of today's historic board announcement, but it is hurting. The beleaguered institution's decision to scrap its founder's vision for free education was a long time coming, borne on the back of a boom-time cupidity that has crippled many university endowments. T
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TUNIS — “Rien n’a changé” (“Nothing has changed”). This was the response of many I met in Tunisia last summer when I asked them how they felt about the Tunisian revolution. Rising unemployment and persistent security concerns were the main worries many cited, along with increasing threats to freedom
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Last Friday, January 11, Idle No More London staged a UK solidarity action in London's British Museum. Standing in solidarity with the Idle No More movement, which originated last November with the First Nations, Metis, and Inuit communities in Canada, members of Idle No More London chose the museum
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You're furious at the plans to end free education at Cooper Union, an institution long applauded as one of the progressive beacons of 19th-century education. You're an art student and join 10 other art students in a protest action that includes the occupation of your school's clocktower. Now, how do
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Following up on the news that the students who took up residence in the Cooper Union clock tower have ended their occupation, Hyperallergic spoke with Casey Gollan, one of the occupiers, about why they came down after a week and what they feel they've accomplished.
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The 11 Cooper Union students who barricaded themselves in the school's Foundation Building clock tower have emerged, ending their occupation a week after it began.
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96 hours into the student occupation of the Cooper Union's historic clock tower, Jolene Travis, Assistant Director of Public Affairs, Media Relations at Cooper Union released a statement to the press and on Cooper's website today regarding the situation. The press release may have been timed to coin
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Yesterday, over sixty students in solidarity with the eleven clock tower occupiers demonstrated outside at the school’s board of trustees meeting, where plans for charging tuition were discussed. According to The Local, three students managed to enter the boardroom before the doors were blocked by s
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Students for a Free Cooper Union held a press conference this afternoon, addressing a set of frequently asked questions regarding their occupation of the college’s Foundation Building. Undergraduate art students Rachel Appel and Audrey Snyder served as spokespeople for the 11 students occupying the
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Eleven Cooper Union students have barricaded themselves within the school’s Foundation Building clock tower since noon on December 3rd in protest of the administration’s plan to begin charging tuition for graduate studies for the first time in 110 years.
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Roughly 50 maintenance workers and cleaners at the British Museum staged a brief strike this past Monday, the AFP reports, protesting the museum's plans to privatize maintenance work starting next April. The workers are represented by the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union and Unite, and bot
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Currently on view at the Oakland Museum of California is The 1968 Exhibit, which focuses on the culture of that unforgettable year. Organized by the Minnesota History Center, the Atlanta History Center, the Chicago History Museum, and the Oakland Museum, this expansive show explores the tumultuous y