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“Mic check!”

“MIC CHECK!” the participants in the rally at Cornell University on Saturday echoed the familiar call of the people’s mic after several similar calls that day.

“Dance!”

Surround yourself with smart people. Not just GPA smart, but out-of-the-box smart. The kind of “smart” that is hard to quantify and straddles the line of creativity.

On Tuesday, Nov. 15, the Labor Initiative in Promoting Solidarity is looking to address the issue of student debt and loans with Occupy the Mic, a speak-out event and discussion.

This past Halloween weekend’s Electronic Dance Party concert, held at Ithaca College’s Emerson Suites, was the perfect avenue to introduce me to the radical, shape-shifting sounds of three of electronic music’s current practitioners: Manchester producer/DJ Starslinger, and opening acts Shlohmo and Shigeto.

On Friday, students from the Cornell Organization for Labor Action worked to raise awareness, through petitioning and educating, about the TCAT workers’ fight for a fair contract.

I propose we bring back the newsies. I’ll start by screaming headlines from this week’s newspaper around campus and see what happens.

“The “journalism major” / j-school = best examples of hyper-commoditization culture in higher education. Bubble’s got to burst soon.” – Michael Tracey

This is how YouTube works. On the surface, it is a meritocracy. But sometimes, like in any societal structure that is supposed to be meritocratic, some great things fall through the cracks and other awful things gain great success.

The opening night of Ithaca College’s fall musical, Light in the Piazza, was an astounding showcase of acting and vocal abilities.

Alright, TOMS shoes are the ultimate hipster cliché. But despite this – and you can call me crazy – but I’d like to assert that TOMS Shoes actually IS doing good in the world.