Hundreds walk out of Stanford classes, demand ‘sanctuary campus’

Yahoo ^ | 11-15-16

[afraidfortherepublic]

More than 500 Stanford University students, faculty and staff members walked out of classrooms and ducked out of jobs Tuesday in a protest of the policies of Donald Trump, the latest in a wave of Bay Area and national demonstrations against the president-elect. Some of the Stanford dissidents, though, came with a concrete demand for the university’s administrators: investigating the possibility of the South Bay campus serving as a sanctuary against the sort of millions of deportations Trump has said he’ll seek as president. Hundreds of people — students, faculty, staff and other supporters — had as of Tuesday evening signed an open letter addressed to President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Provost John Etchemendy urging the two leaders to “immediately develop a protocol for making itself a sanctuary campus.” Sanctuary cities, like San Francisco, have formally adopted policies for local law enforcement limiting their cooperation with federal immigration authorities when it comes to deporting individuals just for being undocumented. Emphasizing Stanford’s support for the Dream Act, which would allow undocumented students to attend the school and apply for citizenship if passed by Congress, Lapin added that “this is a time to reaffirm our commitment to free expression, diversity and inclusion.” California passed its own version of the Dream Act in July 2011, granting undocumented students access to private scholarships to attend state schools. In an interview with CBS News’ “60 Minutes” Sunday, Trump said he would deport or arrest two million to three million undocumented immigrants, though adding that he would prioritize those with criminal records.

[afraidfortherepublic]

At $60+k per year tuition, I'll bet their parents are really pleased. Chelsea's alma mater, although she was hardly there, spending most of her time touring the world with her p-off mom during the impeachment trials.

[Vaquero]

I got your sanctuary campus......right here.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The lunatics running the asylum. It’s time to start shutting some of these “colleges” and “universities” down. They are pumping out defective products.

[nonsporting]

Pull their government student loans or enforce repayment.

[The Toll]

Rape Culture on the way!

[mbarker12474]

Fire the state employee faculty.

Kick the class skippers out of school and give their dorm rooms to students who want an education.

[Da Coyote]

Betcha the math, physics, chem, engineering classes went on as scheduled.

Which says all that needs to be said about the quality of Stanford’s marshmallow major departments.

[Petrosius]

By all means. Build it for them in Mexico City. : )

[realcleanguy]

Stanford cannot afford to give sanctuary to non paying poor immigrants. The students might want to think about what they are saying

[No Socialist]

Time to build the wall and throw them on the other side.

[originalbuckeye]

Or at least acknowledging the ‘Elite’ universities aren’t actually interested in educating the students. I know many people in hiring new talent, will still look to Stanford, Harvard, Yale, etc., because of the reputation these Uni’s had. No longer the best of the best. Now the most coddled of the most coddled.

[OKSooner]

" the possibility of the South Bay campus serving as a sanctuary against the sort of millions of deportations Trump has said he’ll seek as president. "

That sounds like a really good idea to me, Satanford. "Sanctuary against the sort of"... (now how many deportations are we talking about again?)... "deportations Trump has said he'll seek as president".

That's some real compassion you got going there... I really want you to show us how this is gonna work, what with you being so smart and all that...

[nitzy]

The only way that a college campus can be designated as a “sanctuary campus” is if each student adopts an illegal. This will entail sharing their dorm room with the illegal immigrant as well as being responsible for feeding, clothing and paying their legal fees.

Then President Trump should allow them to be considered a “sanctuary campus”.

[txrefugee]

Some parents are really stupid, paying such an exorbitant price for a school that employs the participating faculty members. Do the professors involved in this ridiculous protest teach Black Studies, Womyn’s Studies or video games? If so, no one will miss having them out on strike.

[Pollster1]

Stanford has 8,000 acres. If they put 12,000,000 illegals on their campus, that is 1500 illegals per acre or about 25 square feet per person. That strikes me as rather crowded, even before you consider safety and sanitation.

[CincyRichieRich]

There you have it...mummy and pa-pa, your children you sent away so far from home to learn and be sponges...you didn’t give them enough foundation, teach them right from wrong, you never once read with them the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence...now, they are book-smart idiots and commie/fascists who will forever tell you, you are wrong and they are right. How is that romantic literature or AA-Studies PhD treating you?

[PLMerite]

Stanford without Federal money would be a ghost town.

[pepsionice]

Here’s the deal. For tuition only, it’s $45,000 minimum a year. For room and board, minimum of $14,000. If you toss in health care, beer money, books, gas for your car, etc...it’s another $8,000 minimum.

For kids on some scholarship there? If you are missing classes and fail...your whole scholarship is in jeopardy.

If I were Chancellor....I’d call the instructors and professors into a room and just say tomorrow is a fresh new day, and if no one can do their job...they need to find fresh new work elsewhere....maybe flipping burgers, maybe digging ditches...but it won’t be there. If you got kids who can’t show up for class...give them an application for McDonalds and let them know that we always need more flippers.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Stick em in your dorm room, classes, and back home for CHRISTMAS and Summer vacations

Let’s see how long the Pooh Poohs last

[ScottinVA]

This, as of 2013 (Probably higher now)

6th highest in the nation receiving federal money:
Stanford University

> Total federal R&D grant money: $656 million
> Pct. R&D spending from government: 72.3%
> 2012 endowment: $17.04 billion

In fiscal 2011, Stanford University was a leader in raising R&D funds from not only the government, but nonprofit organizations and businesses as well. Still, the bulk of the school’s funding came from the federal government. Stanford took in nearly $72 million from the Department of Defense and $445 million from HHS, each 11th most in the nation. It additionally ranked as a top 15 school in procuring funding from NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. To account for the effects of sequestration, the school announced it would increase its subsidies to graduate students on research assistantships beginning in fiscal 2014.

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A little reminder from the incoming President about how that government stipend could suddenly turn up dry will set their minds right.