How student debtors took a radical idea to the mainstream
Illustrations by Lyndon Hayes
In the summer of 2007, Thomas Gokey had just graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and he was thinking about how much his degree had cost him. His diploma was a simple piece of paper, but it came with a price tag of thousands of dollars dollars that were themselves pieces of paper, transmitted to him in the form of student loans, which he now owed to the federal government. While chewing on this thought, he had an idea for a project that would occupy him for much of the next year. He obtained a letter of permission from the Treasury Department’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing to go to a Federal Reserve bank of his choice and pick out some shredded bills from its stores of mutilated currency. One day, he walked over to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, five blocks from the Art Institute, and asked for some money.
COVID drives medical students into political activism
12 hours ago Doctors, nurses and other health care workers participate in an event in solidarity with George Floyd and other coloured Americans killed by police officers, at the Queen of the Valley Hospital in West Covina, California. File/Agence France-Presse
Victoria Knight,
Tribune News Service
Inam Sakinah and her classmates will forever be known as the students who started medical school during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
All of them had prepared for this step for years, taking hours of hard science classes in college, studying for the medical school admissions test and often volunteering, working or even getting master’s or other advanced degrees before starting on the long path to earning a medical degree.
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