For five weeks, the University of Washington's Student Senate has wrestled with its most politically charged issue in recent years: a resolution supporting the principles of the Occupy Wall Street movement. On one side are students who think that aligning their interests to the nascent movement can bring more attention to such concerns as rising tuition, growing student debt and bleak job prospects after graduation. But those opposed say the Occupy movement is too unpredictable, its goals undefined or unrealistic. For a student organization to endorse its principles sets a bad precedent, they argue.
