Sociology 2018 Newsletter

SOCIOLOGY NEWSLETTER | Issue #3 5 ...and in the Streets! Graduate students in the Department of Sociology added their voices to a November 2017 protest of the proposed plan to tax tuition benefits. More than 50 OSU graduate students protested the House bill, and students at more than 60 universities held rallies and walk‐outs. The final tax reform bill excluded this pro‐ posed measure, which would have increased students’ taxable income by thousands of dollars each year. “Oklahoma State University has joined with the voices of graduate and higher education advocacy groups and institu- tions across the coun- try to oppose this po- tential tax on gradu- ate students serving in teaching and research positions.” - Joint Statement re- leased by President Burns Hargis & Sheryl Tucker, Vice Provost and Dean of the OSU Graduate College