Once a harmless way to announce campus news, upcoming parties and apartment openings, they have become dumping ground for colorful, glossy ads hawking everything from credit cards to CDs and high-interest loans, he said. And the boards are filled with so many ads, Gunnsaullus said, that there's little room to post anything else. With the help of a few friends, the junior political science major stripped many boards of corporate advertising. Anything being sold to students by anyone other than students came down. We have to let people know the power is in their hands to change what they don't like.
Students have options and rights.
And many are tired of the growing influence big business is having on their education, said Ben Manski, a member of the Democracy Teach-In Council, an international coalition of student groups based at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He said he is especially angered that the majority of his school's board of regents is made up of business leaders who were appointed by the state's governor. Most decisions are made from the top down, and that's not a true democracy - especially when the decision makers have close ties to corporations. Continued Next Column Continued from Previous Column Students at more than 120 universities in the United States and Canada are posing similar questions at a wide range of events this week. At Harvard University, students listened to lectures on the growing impact corporations are having on the environment and medicine.