Tuesday, February 24, 2009
What a pleasant surprise: NYU suspends pro-Gazan students following protest
New York University suspended dozens of students who barricaded themselves in a dining hall with demands that included the school support the residents of Gaza.
About 70 members of Take Baacck NYU, the group behind the demonstration, barricaded themselves inside the Kimmel Student Center with a megaphone and a list of demands starting on the night of Feb. 18.
The last protesters left the building on the afternoon of Feb. 20, apparently after agreeing to leave on promises from university officials to begin negotiations. Scuffles reportedly broke out early that morning as hundreds of students gathered outside the student center banging drums and chanting in support of those inside. One person was arrested for disorderly conduct.
Devitt said protesters broke a door lock and injured a security officer.
Their demands included that the university give 13 scholarships to students from Gaza and donate surplus supplies to the Islamic University of Gaza, which was damaged by airstrikes during last month's Israeli offensive against Hamas.
University officials did not accede to any of the group's demands, which also included calls for student representation on the school's board of trustees and greater disclosure of budgets and endowment investments.
Perhaps the most pathetic thing you may see on YouTube this week is this video of the final moments of the cafeteria siege:
Someone in the comments calls the guy taking the video the "new Star Wars kid" which about sums it up. Listen to him try to use every lame-brained buzz-word in the leftist lexicon to rationalize himself out of this conflict of his own creation. Bonus: Somewhere in the dark in this video, you can see a cop getting baton busy. Lots more realted videos you can follow through the interface there. Watching kids roll over the cops over and over is unreal. It's all a big game, and it's not particularly funny.
Sounds like a little kid desperate for some attention.
There's a good one of him bumming out when the police originally come into the building and all the other brave souls around him start to evaporate.
Thanks Sol,
LMAO. That video is priceless, though it's scary to think that these dolts are actually students in America.
Take Back NYU rocks!
I love those guys! A team of the world's best comedic screenwriters could not have scripted their pathetic last stand to play out any funnier. Corporate Water???? That's the most patently bourgeois thing I've heard in a long time. Water is bad, Apple is good? Take Back NYU! is going to ruin the Apple brand altogether; Apple is marketed for slackers, NOT hippies.
And why did Take Back! narrow their goals when they were doing so well and capturing the imagination of the worldwide public? Why not go all the way and fight to achieve federal protection for the Cape Fear River shiner, one of the most endangered fishes in North America? Or demand that the porn industry replace the hurtful "MILF" genre of adult film with the less judgmental "experienced women" title?
If only they had not been so pragmatic, this really could have been a changed world. . .
WE DEMAND...
that our mommies and daddies come and bail us out of jail.
This always used to disgust me when I was on campus:
"WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO PROTEST! We have the right to barricade ourselves, to destroy state property, to make any unreasonable demands we can think up while we hold University facilities hostage!
"Oh, and we want immunity from arrest, too..."
No, kids. You have the obligation to take responsibility for your own actions. Don't break the law for your cause, unless your cause is important enough to go to jail for.
It's all part of being an adult. You enjoy thinking of yourselves as adults now, don't you?
(Except when it's time to pay the bill...)
cheers,
DiB
You know a good use for Corporate Water? Freeze in in little blocks and splash some Inishowen over it!
Watching that kid was torturous and there was no tazer payoff. You owe me.
Tazer use would have been the icing on the cake!
This was hilarious!
It really gets hilarious after the 8 minute mark.
"Who wants to be facilitator?"
"They drink corporate water."
Where the heck do they come up with this cr-p?
Yes, they did need a tazing.