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Columbia Students May Not Get Credit For Occupying Wall Street After All
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Published Jan 5, 2012
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Hold on, Columbia University students—you may not be able to major in "Mic-Checking The Man" anymore! A course offered by the Ivy League school's Anthropology Department titled "Occupy the Field" has been evicted from the school's course bulletin Was Tony Bologna involved?
Bwog reports that the listing is M.I.A. They spoke to the Anthropology chair Elizabeth Povinelli, who dismissed conspiracy theories. She says the class was"proposed at the last minute" and, as Bwog puts it, "did not undergo the requisite Committee on Instruction overview and new instructor approval for postdoc fellows. Povinelli said it was 'an inadvertent mistake' that the class was posted last week. We’ve received no response as to whether the class will now undergo the overview."
The course was to be taught by Professor Hannah Appel and would include "training in ethnographic research methods alongside a critical exploration of the conjunctural issues in the Occupy movement: Wall Street, finance capital, and inequality; political strategies, property and public space, and the question of anarchy; and genealogies of the contemporary moment in global social movements." For now, if you want to pay thousands to study OWS, go to NYU.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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