The Lambda Fifth Columns: Part 4 (of 4), Winter 1973
This is the last part of a new series of Fifth Columns featuring my columns from 1971 to 1973 in the Laurentian University student newspaper Lambda, that inspired me to…
Student Loans
Why I Run
When Redford’s Conservatives cut persons with developmental disabilities programs, I can only look on aghast as funding for my three handicapped siblings is cut. When Redford guts palliative care nurses…
Camila Vallejo and Noam Titelman: Chilean student leaders receive award in the U.S.
Top: Camila Vallejo and Noam Titelman – also bottom left and right. Like their counterparts in Chile and Quebec, students on US campuses have been seeking to organize to combat…
How the Gov’t Is Saddling Parents with College Loans They Can’t Afford
by Marian Wang | ProPublica More than a decade after Aurora Almendral first set foot on her dream college campus, she and her mother still shoulder the cost of that…
Grieving Father Struggles to Pay Dead Son’s Student Loans
Article by Marian Wang | ProPublica, June 14, 2012, 10:05 a.m. A few months after he buried his son, Francisco Reynoso began getting notices in the mail. Then the debt…
How to support a new Public Interest lawyer
Thursday, March 15, 2012 No, that title is not an invitation to donate to West Coast Environmental Law. Law students who want to work as public interest lawyers face massive…