Columnist: Iain Hunter, Oct 9th

   Iain Hunter's latest column Wall Street, and the start of a revolution addresses the same topic as many columns and articles these days: The Occupy Wall Street movement. Hunter takes the angle of discussing why students get involved in protests like this and for once he shows young people in a favourable light. He makes good points about young people caring about things outside of their own little world because they know the problems facing Americans today will soon become their problems. He also tells how university students have "provided a lot of the muscle" for protests over the centuries. Hunter is still biased; though he is talking about young people's involvement in the Wall Street protests, his point of view is still that of of a middle-aged person and his tone almost seems a bit condescending. He makes it sound as if the main reason students protest is for the sake of protesting. He also seems to think that although students provide the muscle, they lack the leadership to actually make something of Occupy Wall Street. It's a bit arrogant of him to say that students are not leadership oriented; I see young people demonstrate leadership everyday. Hunter's article could be seen as both responsive and inflaming, depending how one takes it. Although he makes some valid points and his information is mostly accurate, it couldn't really be called insightful. For the most part he is stating facts about how little media attention the protests have received and musing about the possibility that Occupy Wall Street could become a revolution.