Aram Zucker-Scharff

“Graduate students seem determined to willingly delude themselves about the neoliberal financial foundation of graduate education; I’ve found that they are the most deeply invested in the myths of the academic cult. Then they finish their programs and hit the job market. The job market reveals the total insupportability of the entire system.”

– From: “Understanding the risks and resisting the Kool-Aid: An interview with Karen Kelsky about student debt”

Is this drought a Suffolk-specific problem or a much larger crisis? And if the answer is the latter, what is holding an increasing amount of students back from being passionate about — and getting involved with — established college media?  “Are Fewer Students Passionate About College Media?” Dan Reimold, College Media Matters When I worked […]

Is this drought a Suffolk-specific problem or a much larger crisis? And if the answer is the latter, what is holding an increasing amount of students back from being passionate about — and getting involved with — established college media?  “Are Fewer Students Passionate About College Media?” Dan Reimold, College Media Matters When I worked […]

In which some idiot claims that Student Loans are too big to fail.:

Thanks for explaining that the student loan system is Too Big To Fail. That argument has never failed, right? Also, can’t let the *enormous* assumption here pass that bankruptcy is the only way out of loans, because no one has ever run out on a loan before.

Just because it is harder to run out on a student loan than a house loan doesn’t make it impossible. This is the same type of BS that was said about the housing market: ‘oh well, no one will run out on their housing loans because people don’t do that, it would be irresponsible.’