While most students were in class or taking midterms Wednesday morning, Gallatin senior Sarah Secunda was being arrested for protesting for a single-payer health care system.
The sit-in, held at the corporate offices of WellPoint, a private health insurance provider in Lower Manhattan, drew about 80 activists, nine of whom were arrested. The protest was one of about a dozen similar demonstrations nationwide. They were part of the Mobilization for Health Care for All campaign, which uses civil disobedience to push for a single-payer universal health care plan.
02 November 2009
28 October 2009
Media Moguls Debate the Current State of News
Last night, six top-notch media professionals posed a question: "Should we eliminate mainstream media?"
By the end of the night, 68 percent of their audience answered, "No."
By the end of the night, 68 percent of their audience answered, "No."
The debate, titled "Good Riddance to Mainstream Media," pitted three pro-mainstream media panelists against three pro-new media panelists to settle the question of how new and old media interact with each other.
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