"Honestly, I never noticed anything different. I'm not sure if that's because we're a private university or not, but I didn't notice any cutbacks in hours, staff, services anything. Maybe I'm not observant enough, but if I didn't follow the news, I wouldn't have known anything was going on at all."
—sophomore Jeffery Cornelison
—Nicholas Carnes, assistant professor of public policy
—freshman Ana Maria Maganto Ramirez
"About f---ing time."
—sophomore June Zhang.
—sophomore Brendon Colbert
—Pratt graduate student Abraham Chukwuka
—freshman Robert Lee
—senior Caitlin O'Neill
—sophomore Medha Gudavalli
"It's putting people's health in danger. Our foods not being inspected, services crucial to survival were shut down all for a political power struggle. the point of government isn't supposed to be focused on one issue while completely forgoing all others."
—sophomore Joanna Kuang
"The
Republicans were just waiting for the shutdown to last 20 weeks so they couldn't
legally abort it."
—sophomore Max Staebler
"I
am thrilled that the members of Congress decided to cooperate. They sent a strong
message to the American public that in the end, true cooperation is the only
thing that keeps us going. I'm glad they finally set their egos aside because
now that we have our government open, those issues that remained unresolved can
be worked on without punishing the American public."
—senior Hannah
Ward
"The
government shutdown is over? That's pretty cool, I guess. I can't wait for my
life to continue functioning as always."
—senior Andrew
Yuan
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