By Jonathan Beck
News and Opinion Editor Emeritus
This is how things were yesterday; this is how they are today; and therefore, this is how they ought always to be.
I was disappointed in President John Hurleys letter to the Canisius community this past week, which I read as relying on the fallacy above. In recognizing a threat to the financial well-being of Canisius College an institution that I hold in highest esteem he explicitly and implicitly argued against socially just outcomes in favor of ossifying class and racial inequalities. As a result, he failed to acknowledge institutional responsibility for the building higher education debt crisis; he betrayed the ideals of Canisius Jesuit mission; and he reinforced a false dichotomy…
Read the full article at: https://canisiusgriffin.wordpress.com/2017/02/17/canisius-can-help-solve-the-student-debt-problem/