December 2019 ECSU Newsletter

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DECEMBER NEWSLETTER What Emerson doesn’t want you to know, in your inbox monthly

In this issue: The Quietly Disappointing Reality of Voice Your Choice The Student Activist Reading List: An incomplete list of resources for campus troublemakers ECSU introduces movie nights Emerson's staff union endorses ECSU Get a free T-pass from student access Four ways to get involved with ECSU

ECSU FEATURES • ECSU FEATURES • ECSU FEATURES By William Ridge

THE QUIETLY DISAPPOINTING REALITY OF VOICE YOUR CHOICE Several weeks ago flyers appeared throughout the hallways, lobby tables, and bathroom walls of the Emerson campus advertising the Vote Your Choice event. It brightly announces that we students might contribute to the decisions made in our college, to really make a difference. It's an inviting flyer, imploring you to vote this December, and the concept it describes is similarly alluring to a student body paying four percent more tuition this year. But exactly how much power are we, the chief creditors of the college, being given? The flyer itself lays it out quite simply, and it is here that the limitations and contradictions first appear. We have been allotted $100,000 of money out of the Emerson gift fund to vote on. To students with crushing debt and minimum wage


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