The Occupy Wall Street movement has made its way to Ashland where, last week, five angry Randolph-Macon students gathered together to protest a system that they view as greedy and corrupt. Among their demands: a $100-per-hour living wage, an end to scarcity of resources, free Starbucks forever, sunshine and unicorns every Wednesday, making greed illegal, and a moratorium on the laws of physics.
Like all good Hampden-Sydney Men, we arrived at the protest, eager to engage the RMC students in an intellectual discussion—even if we needed to introduce them to it. …