On the Poverty of Student Life: A Consideration of Its Economic, Political, Sexual, Psychological and Notably Intellectual Aspects and of a Few Ways to Cure it (French: De la misère en milieu étudiant considérée sous ses aspects économique, politique, psychologique, sexuel et notamment intellectuel et de quelques moyens pour y remédier) is a pamphlet first published by students of the University of Strasbourg and the Situationist International (SI) in 1966.

[2][3] They formed an anarchist appreciation society, funded a flypost of André Bertrand's détourned comic strip, and invited the Sutiationists to critique their university, resulting in Mustapha Khayati's pamphlet, On the Poverty of Student Life.

[4] The students promptly proceeded to print 10,000 copies of the pamphlet using university funds and distributed them during a ceremony marking the beginning of the academic year.

[1][3] The scandal significantly raised the profile of the SI[5] and led them to reappraise the revolutionary potential of academia, reversing their previous disillusionment to take seats on the Occupation Committee of the Sorbonne during May 1968.

[2] Critic Greil Marcus characterised the pamphlet as a polemic in his history of 20th century avant-garde art movements, Lipstick Traces (1990).