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Loghan Hastings

College Tuition, Student Loans, and Unemployment : The New Yorker - 0 views

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  • The protesters at Occupy Wall Street may not have put forth an explicit set of demands yet, but there is one thing that they all agree on: student debt is too damn high. Since the late nineteen-seventies, annual costs at four-year colleges have risen three times as fast as inflation, and, with savings rates dropping and state aid to colleges being cut, students have been forced to take on ever more debt in order to pay for school.
  • f course, a college-education bubble wouldn’t look exactly like a typical asset bubble, because you can’t flip a college degree the way you can flip a stock, or even a home.
  • This isn’t to say that eighteen-year-olds are perfectly rational economic actors. Most obviously, many of them borrow a lot of money and then don’t finish college, ending up debt-laden and without a degree.
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  • The college-bubble argument makes the solution to rising costs seem simple: if people just wake up, the bubble will pop, and reasonable prices will return. It’s much tougher to admit that there is no easy way out. Maybe we need to be willing to spend more and more of our incomes and taxpayer dollars on school, or maybe we need to be willing to pay educators and administrators significantly less, or maybe we need to find ways to make colleges more productive places, which would mean radically changing our idea of what going to college is all about. Until America figures out its priorities, college kids are going to have to keep running just to stand still. ♦
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Paige Colman

T.M.I. - I Don't Want to Know - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • “My high school friends from Kansas are dear, sweet people,” said Colby Hall, the founding editor of Mediaite.com. “But nothing says depressed like people asking you to feed the cows on Farmville.”
    • Paige Colman
      Paige Colman on 23 Feb 12
       
      The author decides Colby Hall as a naysayer. This is predominately due to Hall's opinion towards the use of "Farmville" as communication.
  • “If the F.B.I. came and ransacked my computer, they’d be like: ‘What is your obsession with this person from sixth grade? Why have you looked at her picture a million times?’ ” said Julie Klam, whose next book, “Friendkeeping,” is about actual friendships.
    • Paige Colman
      Paige Colman on 23 Feb 12
       
      Klam is a naysayer, do to her underlying idea that people are overly obsessive with the use of social media to contact people.
kandice miller

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  • But many people see no escape. “Even if you hide a person’s news feed, you know it’s there,” Ms. Crosley lamented. “And then you might find yourself going to their page to get a direct hit, which can only be worse.”
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      Ms. Crosley is a naysayer. She disagrees that there is an online escape for many, because they choose to find what they are trying to avoid. Even though you can ignore someones updates, you can still get to a point that you crave the information and desire to search it out on their pages. 
  • “There’s one person who keeps coming around in the People You May Know box on Facebook where just the suggestion of this person changes my whole day,” said Pam Houston, a novelist. “It’s essential to my well-being to create the illusion that this person doesn’t exist.
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      Houston is a naysayer, she disagrees that a suggest online friend could become an online friend. The anticipated online persona and the person alone would only have a negative impact on her mood for the day.
  • The faceless Web, seriously? More like the Web of too many faces.
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      The author here is a naysayer, disagreeing with the information relayed by the Google spokesman. Instead of seeing the information of the Google plus members being well integrated into the Web in a productive manner, Paul finds that it would just be a negative addition adding more unnecessary "faces" to the "faceless Web."
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  • “My high school friends from Kansas are dear, sweet people,” said Colby Hall, the founding editor of Mediaite.com. “But nothing says depressed like people asking you to feed the cows on Farmville.”
    • nakins
      nakins on 23 Feb 12
       
      Colby Hall is a naysayer here, that agrees with the opening paragraphs of the author, that there is just too much unnecessary things going on online being relayed by friends. In Hall's case, it the "dear" old friends asking you to help out in a ridiculous online game you don't care about.
  • Sure, you can unfollow, unsubscribe, de-link or tune people out. “At least the Internet gives us the option of blocking them, consigning them to oblivion forever,” Andy Borowitz, a humorist, “shared” in an e-mail. “The only equivalent option in the real world is strangulation.”
    • kandice miller
      kandice miller on 23 Feb 12
       
      Andy Borowitz is a naysayer because he is stating the fact that social networks give someone the ability to block another person. Which would get rid of their problem of always having to see what they were doing. 
Alejandra Gallo

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  • “My high school friends from Kansas are dear, sweet people,” said Colby Hall, the founding editor of Mediaite.com. “But nothing says depressed like people asking you to feed the cows on Farmville.”
    • Alejandra Gallo
      Alejandra Gallo on 23 Feb 12
       
      Here the author identifies Colby Hall as a naysayer. In this case, because he first states about the people in Kansas being sweet people and then says something about people in 'Farmville' asking you to feed the cows.
Juan Mayen

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    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 23 Feb 12
       
      Naysayer, Pamela is recognizing that some people might say that this can be amusing or annoying. With Pamela writing this specific passage, this passage helps her expand upon other aspect such as the, "it can also be hurtful."
Ian Howerton

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  • A Google spokesman asserts that the program is designed to combat “the faceless Web.” The faceless Web, seriously? More like the Web of too many faces.
    • Ian Howerton
      Ian Howerton on 23 Feb 12
       
      The Naysayer is Google, the author responds in the next paragraph with her "witty" statement countering the idea of the faceless web.
Chris Melendez

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  • What does this mean for our own data spills?
    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 23 Feb 12
       
      Naysayer, the question is explicit. This mentions of what happen when we personally mess things up. All of the "social" world is there to see it. And they might have a totally different view of things or events that you do as something more serious or not to play with.
  • The whole system is giving very ambitious people much less chance to reinvent themselves,”
    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 23 Feb 12
       
      Naysayer?, People want to be different and the social media is not allowing people to become a new "John" or "Wanda"
  • Weren’t we better off knowing a little bit less, a little less often, about everyone else?
    • Juan Mayen
      Juan Mayen on 23 Feb 12
       
      Question implied :Could we be better if we knew less about people, and not know so often? I probably have to agree on this one, we tend to look to much at fb and see people's relationship status change as fb changes its page characteristics (sigh* timeline, profile etc..)
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  • And while you’re still in upper childhood, unneeded social information is plastered everywhere. “There’s no such thing as a small party that you only hear about a month later, because now kids make sure that everyone knows a party is going on and that everyone else isn’t invited,” said Mark Bauerlein, author of “The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future.”
    • Chris Melendez
      Chris Melendez on 23 Feb 12
       
      Bauerlein is a naysayer in a yes but since  the idea is that the digital age is great for sharing information but he is claiming that the wrong information is being shared such as parties and social events instead of scholarly links. 
Ian Howerton

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  • said Mark Bauerlein, author of “The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future.”
    • Ian Howerton
      Ian Howerton on 23 Feb 12
       
      Yeah this article isn't biased at all.
Ian Howerton

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  • Sure, you can unfollow, unsubscribe, de-link or tune people out. “At least the Internet gives us the option of blocking them, consigning them to oblivion forever,” Andy Borowitz
    • Ian Howerton
      Ian Howerton on 23 Feb 12
       
      Borowitz is a naysayer in this situation. The author combats him in the next paragraph by quoting someone to support her claim.
Ebonee Laws

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  • A Google spokesman asserts that the program is designed to combat “the faceless Web.”
  • Sure, you can unfollow, unsubscribe, de-link or tune people out. “At least the Internet gives us the option of blocking them, consigning them to oblivion forever,” Andy Borowitz
Kevin Gardner

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  • Although most people imagine that the future depends on sci-fi technologies, most of the technologies that make our lives possible today are fundamentally very old.
    • Kevin Gardner
      Kevin Gardner on 01 Mar 12
       
      Playing off of Robert Forrant's conclusion, Carlson positions those who imagine that the future depends on sci-fi technologies as naysayers to his more rounded and thoughtful analysis. He advances his argument by pointing out that most of the technologies that make our lives possible today stem from very old technology. 
  • Anna Lappé's Diet for a Hot Planet
    • Kevin Gardner
      Kevin Gardner on 01 Mar 12
       
      Those who identify with Anna Lappe's school of thought are nay-sayers to Carlson's argument in that they are taking an unbalanced and overly simplified  approach in trying to solve a complex matter where similar principles apply.   
  • some people question the practical value of a college degree
    • Kevin Gardner
      Kevin Gardner on 01 Mar 12
       
      The author is injecting a naysayer into his argument here by giving some attention to those who question the value of a college degree. Rather that searching out something fundamentally different from what higher education has to offer, Carlson explains, we aught to look with a fresh pair of eyes at what is already present and can be enhanced in the current system. 
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  • The book's treatment of the topic held few surprises, and the solutions offered were equally well-worn and deceptively simple: Buy fruits, vegetables, and meats locally, and cook them at home.
  • the chorus of complaints about the state of higher education
    • Kevin Gardner
      Kevin Gardner on 01 Mar 12
       
      People complaining about the state of higher education and saying colleges need to make students employable, use technology to scale up, or view large campuses as an unnecessary burden in an online world, are naysayers to Carlson's argument in that they are proposing that we re-invent the wheel of higher education instead of optimizing the utility of what already exists by being creative.
  • Lawmakers say colleges need to make students employable and to create jobs. Some critics say colleges should use technology to scale up; others go so far as to bemoan the physical campus as an unnecessary, expensive burden in an online world.
  • Instead of viewing the physical campus as a burden, why not see it as an asset, even beyond the aesthetic attractions of the quad? With some imagination, couldn't these colleges use their campuses and rural settings to train students in valuable hands-on skills?
  • Compare that with the American system, which is "geared up for a service economy, where the idea is that people are going to prosper by getting farther and farther away from the world of skilled craftsmanship," he says. The higher-education elite doesn't value it.
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