Ray Glass, Student Governments, and Student Unionism
“Are Student Governments Obsolete?”, an early-70s essay by New York student activist Ray Glass, has enjoyed a boomlet of attention in recent months. A couple of people put the text up online, and it’s been getting passed around quite a bit — I keep seeing it pop up on Facebook and Twitter and various blogs.
Ray Glass was one of the founders of SASU, the statewide student association for SUNY, New York’s upstate university system. He was the engine behind SASU’s successful campaign to get an elected student representative on the SUNY system’s board of trustees (and on those of all the individual campuses), and was completing a stint as the organization’s legislative director when he was struck and killed by a drunk driver in
Ray Glass was one of the founders of SASU, the statewide student association for SUNY, New York’s upstate university system. He was the engine behind SASU’s successful campaign to get an elected student representative on the SUNY system’s board of trustees (and on those of all the individual campuses), and was completing a stint as the organization’s legislative director when he was struck and killed by a drunk driver in