Posted on 01/30/2008 9:42:24 AM PST by NormsRevenge
UCSD staffer Bryan Ward, in a full polar bear costume
for a performance-art show, sits in the 8-foot-tall
"electric" chair that will be used in the show. Maggie
Souder (right), a campus sustainability officer, assists.
Fools. Is everyone going to college to become an activist?
At UCSD, young conservationists are preparing a performance-art show that will feature a faux polar bear in an 8-foot-tall “electric” chair. It’s a creative riff on the theme of climate change harming the bears.
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Perhaps the most unusual event will be tomorrow’s performance-art show with the giant “electric” chair. A student dressed in a polar-bear costume will be strapped into the chair and will hold a sign proclaiming, “You Have the Power.”
“At the University of Rhode Island, students placed 300-pound blocks of ice around their campus and let them melt to symbolize how global warming is affecting polar ice caps.”
I’m going to buy the game “Operation” and remove the patient’s brain to symbolize the collective intelligence of the GW crowd.
“It’s really important that this is happening nationwide,” said Michelle Kizner, a Focus the Nation organizer at UCSD, where she’s majoring in ecology, behavior and evolution. “That makes it more powerful – just the solidarity of the movement and really seeing that people are committed everywhere.”
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committed?
some of these folks may belong in another institution methinks where folks also are ‘committed’. jmo
-—our future “leadership”-—not—!!!
These are the same type of students that drop a car off of a three story building and say....”You mean it go dented?”. Look kids, leave the ice cubes in the freezer and they won’t melt. Don’t heat the school and see how you like it. As for the bear in the electric chair.....be sure and plug it in. If this is all they have to do in school, we best be closing down the school and save the money.
“Fools. Is everyone going to college to become an activist?”
No, not everyone. I guarantee that the Asian kids who come here to study computer science, mathematics & chemistry were all busy studying for real degrees. It’s the American kids, products of public schools that dispensed mush and who are now studying “ecology” and “women’s studies,” are the ones participating this this nonsense.
We had a Polar Bear named Major up here at the Stone Zoo. He was on the front page of the Boston Herald the same day that Al Gore gave a speech on Global Warming on the steps of the State House. Major was used as a yard stick to measure the snowfall we had gotten so far that year, which had gone over his height.
Major was nine feet tall.
The left would be very happy if that were true for ALL college students. /s
When you only go to class 2, maybe 3 hours a day, and you've got mom and dad's money to support you, what else is there to do but smoke dope and protest?
Morons brainwashed by Gore. Pathetic.
Yeah...With the stinking freezing temps here and the snowstorm in the Middle East, we certainly need to concern ourselves with Global Warming. /sarc
Bingo. I grew up here, but my parents were both legal immigrants, and they pushed me pretty hard to study useful subjects (computer science, mathematics). I picked accounting, economics, and commerce on my own.
Fools. Is everyone going to college to become an activist?
I'm not!
Isn't that sweet.
Wonder how many fossil fuels were burned by the forklifts/dumptrucks/whatever to transport this stuff? Or, is it only the thought that counts?
That block is only about 43 gallons or about the size of two gas tanks. That “symbol” seems pretty weak to me.
IMO, conservatives need to join the battle in education. The liberals have a stanglehold on these institutions from K through any level of college degree you care to name, making it nearly impossible for the conservative message to reach and influence enough of the future generations. Indeed, I think the future of conservatism in this country is bleak. I feel bad for people in their 20's or younger, as they will probably live in a different (and worse) America than the one we grew up in. But putting the brakes on some of the liberal stupidity being taught in the schools might help turn the tide a bit.
This is what a bear looks like. Go Nanooks...
University of Alaska Museum
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