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A new generation rising up: Detroit Auto Show 2008


You could’ve seen the it halfway down Woodward Avenue, Detroit’s largest road. It read “We refuse to drive the cars driving global warming.” A blue weather balloon held the message up for everybody see, at the first day of the 2008 North American International Auto Show, here in my home city. Over fifty students from […]

WSU College of Nursing gets a tuition hike


Tuition hikes weren’t taking a break this holiday season.
Some Wayne State students will pay more money in the winter semester after getting hit with a tuition increase.
Tuition was increased for students in the nursing master’s degree program $20 per credit hour and the physician assistant studies master’s degree program $50 per credit hour to cover […]

Michigan students demand green shift from automakers


Today we marched through the streets of downtown Detroit towards the Cobo convention center where the North American International Auto Show is taking place. We were going to the heart of the auto industry to tell them loud and clear -with a bullhorn and banners in hand- that we are not going to be driving […]

SDS in the New York Times!


SDS was recently featured in the New York Times. Detroit, and several other chapters were highlighted. Check it out:

One Generation Got Old, One Generation Got Soul
By RACHEL AVIV
Published: January 6, 2008
SIXTEEN students sat around a table in the Manhattan cafeteria of the New School discussing where commas should go. They were rewriting, for the third […]

Best of NLN Photography - 2007


Savitri Durkee, Director of the Church of Stop Shopping
(Photo: Thomas Good / NLN)
New York, NY - January 1, 2008. 2007 was a busy year for NLN . A number of our photographs were picked up by other news services - including In These Times, ZMag, Yes! Magazine, Punk Planet and many others. One […]