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Friday, November 05, 2004
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UNIVERSITY DIARIES SALUTES...
... the student boycotters at Portland State University (there are more than a thousand of them as of this writing), who are refusing to use PSU's about-to-be-issued new student identification cards. Provided by a company whose name points to a serious confusion between religion and business (HigherOne), the card carries a MasterCard logo and, when you activate it on HigherOne's website, tries hard to make you open a debit account. "I don't come to school to deal with corporate America," says one boycotter. "I come to school to learn. [The debit card] is a direct and tangible risk to the student experience." Whether you're being forced by your English professor to vote in a national election, or pressured into opening a financial account you don't want, or forced to watch television commercials in the student center, the American university student should fight back. Ridicule. Boycott. And don't forget to order your TV-B-Gone [see UD post, 10/22/04]. [ps: Can't say Portland State is unresponsive: They've offered to distribute little stickers that students can put on top of the corporate logo to cover it up.] |