[Newleaf] Andrew Ross, Scholar and Occupy activist to give Schocket Lecture on April 16

[Rachel Rubinstein]

Dear student activists,
Please circulate to your lists:

This year's annual Eric Schocket Memorial Lecture is titled "DEMOCRACY, OCCUPY
and DEBT-FINANCED EDUCATION" and will be given by ANDREW ROSS, MONDAY APRIL
16th at 4 pm in the Main Lecture Hall.

Ross is a well known American Studies scholar who has recently been at the
center of Occupy organizing around the issue of student debt and the financing
of education. A long time organizer in the academic labor movement, his recent
books include REAL LOVE: IN PURSUIT OF CULTURAL JUSTICE, NICE WORK IF YOU CAN
GET IT, and BIRD ON FIRE: LESSONS FROM THE WORLD'S LEAST SUSTAINABLE CITY.

Please encourage your members, friends, and colleagues to come to this timely
and relevant event!


Rachel Rubinstein
Associate Professor of American Literature and Jewish Studies
Dean of Academic Support and Advising
Hampshire College
(413) 559-5821