Civic Issues I Matthew Mouck

Believe it or not, most of the news focusing on student self-expression is still dominated by things like the student walkout and the gun control march. This again makes it a little hard to focus on just college students' self-expression, but regardless it's important to investigate the consequences. The last blog we looked specifically at school administration relations with the student body in terms of walking out, so this week we'll look at some responses to the marches.  On Saturday, March 24 people around America flooded the streets in a political protest. According to the New York Times , there were marches in 390 of the 495 congressional districts. That is difficult to imagine such a cohesive act across the nation. Even more interesting, this was a largely student-run movement. Here in State College, the march began at the high school and ended on Old Main. I participated in the March, not for personal reasons, but primarily because my friend feels very strong...

This has been a really big week for student expression. It has reached even national levels of importance. It has been the headline for news. But it's not even about college.  Rather, high school student self-expression and protest has taken the nation by storm. This certainly diverges from what one normally expects when hearing student protest. And this is meant to be a blog that is dedicated to examining the issues of college students, but every recent news article is dominated by the protest that just occurred. And, to be quite honest, I would be remiss to neglect something so important to student protest. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, it's pretty simple. Across the country, students filed out of their classes at 10:00 am and remained outside of their classes for 17 minutes. It was a symbolic 17 minutes for the 17 lives lost during the Florida shooting. View out of my window of #NationalWalkoutDay student protest in Madison. pic.twitter.com/jeeq2sCV...