Posted on 04/16/2006 4:10:43 AM PDT by csvset
At least one of the students was screaming, and many were crying, according to witnesses.
The horror, the horror.
What's the tuition at UVA? Perhaps the students could convince their parents to make up the wage difference.
Hello, Daddy? Please cut a check to the UVA's Worker's Fund.
Note that Daddy is hyphenated
......“We were in the middle of what we believed were good-faith negotiations and they responded with arrests,” ......
I guess you were wrong. Don't bring a disruptive sit in to the negotiating table and expect no counter offer.
You offered sit in, the adninistration offered arrest.
Ah Spring. Young skulls full of mush look for more ways to get out of school.
Trespassing is not part of good-faith negotiations.
I am with you. I dont see a problem. The school should just announce a $1000 dollar increase in tuition for everyone,payable immediately to cover the costs of what the students want.
Maybe then the students would realise where the money comes from to meet their demands. There isnt a printing press in the basement that prints money.In the end it comes from their pockets.
Um...if you can't make it in Charlottesville, Virginia on $9.37 an hour...sheesh. We aren't talking San Francisco or midtown Manhattan here.
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If they had been illegal aliens there would not have been any arrests.
Gee, they have to have their daily, or 3, Starbucks!
Here's another idea. If you don't like the amount that the job pays, go find another job.
This is a liberal right of passage that has been going on since I was a student there.
These college kids didn't even think far enough ahead to plan on bringing in some snacks or other substinence? What exactly are they learning in school?
Obviously, no potential Halliburton employees here. Sounds like they will all end up on government payrolls, or some traditional media organization.
When Businesses are guranteed a "living profit" then workers will be gurantee a "living wage"
Shades of France!!!
UVA is a state school, not very expensive for in state residents, not even too bad for out of state. In any case, wage increases would have to be supported directly by the Virginia taxpayers or by the parents of students. I have the feeling that this group of students favors the tax increase solution.
OTOH, since the jobs they are talking about are state jobs, I imagine that not only do these jobs carry good benefits, but that they are sought after and prized.
Just a guess, and just my 2 cents.
They must be flunking...
(Actually, the COL in the Charlottesville area is not low. It's comparable to the DC area. Many public servants and teachers cannot afford to live in the city or in surrounding Albemarle County.)
There was an article/commentary in Friday's Cav Daily, iirc, about this. It mentioned wireless internet as being a necessity and how the students involved in the sit-in were worried about missing assignments. Provided me with quite a chuckle.
I'll go look it up, but is Madison Hall the building at the corner of Main/University and Rugby, across Rugby from Casteen's house? I can't remember right now.
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