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One Protester Getting College Credit For Occupying Wall Street
By Ben Yakas - Gothamist
November 6, 2011 2:45 PM

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The NY Post continued their hit job on Occupy Wall Street today with a first-person piece from an undercover reporter embedded among the unwashed masses in Shurja Zuccotti Park. Their reporter spent the night talking with Kombucha drinkers, rape victims, and someone named “Conscience,” and came to the conclusion that "the parcel is now a sliver of madness." One person they didn't talk to? University of Alabama junior Henry Perkins, who is neither a smelly vagrant, an owner of an "Anarkitty," or filled with madness—he's earning college credit while protesting at Zuccotti.

The Daily News reports on the 21-year-old Perkins: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/university-alabama-student-henry-perkins-earns-college-credit-occupy-wall-street-article-1.972695 who says he regularly checks in with professors, Skypes into class twice a week, and gives other students updates from OWS. “I asked my professors and they said to go for it. They’re living vicariously through me,” he said.

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More: http://gothamist.com/2011/11/06/college_credit_for_hanging_at_zucco.php

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