The Article "NYU Professor: Are Student Loans Immoral?", by Andrew Ross, in Wordle format. Click here to read the article, and click on the picture to zoom in.
It can seem like high school is primarily about getting into
college, especially to eleventh grade students. But what happens when you’re actually there? Written by Andrew Ross, New York University
(NYU) Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, this Newsweek article delves
into one of the most frightening consequences of a higher education: debt. Student loans push many young adults
into massive debt upon their college graduation. Ross had been ignoring this “silent elephant” in his
classroom until last year, when helped to launch the “Occupy Student Debt
Campaign”, which among other things brought this issue to the public’s
attention. Through anecdotes of
students whose dreams for their future had been ruined because of debt, such as
a girl whose father had been laid off and thus considered dropping out of
school, and a first generation American who had not taken out loans from a
properly accredited institution, the article effectively informs the public of
this problem. Ross also included statistics,
such as the alarming truth that African Americans are the most indebted of any
racial group, which appealed to the audience’s ethos and pathos. The article seemed targeted towards a
younger demographic of Americans who have been, are, or will be faced with
college and potential debt in the near future. This article successfully placed the problem of debt into
context for those unfamiliar with it, but I believe it will require more than just
one person speaking up to make a difference.
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