Eviction ends D-Q protest { Squatters removed from Tribal College }

Sacramento Bee ^ | 2/21/8 | Stephen Magagnini

[SmithL]

University board members bypass chairman, ask Yolo deputies to end occupation.

The occupation of D-Q University, the troubled tribal college seven miles west of Davis, ended abruptly Wednesday morning when Yolo County sheriff's deputies arrested three self-described students for trespassing.

About a dozen former students have been occupying the dorms at D-Q and holding their own classes since the two-year college lost its accreditation and federal funding in 2005 over financial and enrollment problems.

Several members of the university's board – concerned about safety and liability issues and a mounting electric bill – asked the sheriff to evict the "squatters" Wednesday without notifying board Chairman Calvin Hedrick.

"This action was taken without my knowledge or approval," a furious Hedrick said. "I'm very frustrated that this is happening because I'd just spoken with the students Wednesday and tried to find some common ground so we could definitely be working together."

Board Vice Chairwoman Jane Elliott, who authorized the evictions, said in a statement: "We have no other alternative but to ensure the safety and well being of those individuals who now reside at D-Q University. There is no heat and there is no hot water. Currently the campus cannot accommodate healthy living conditions."

Greg Iron, a Crowcreek/ Lower Brule Indian who enrolled at D-Q in August 2004, said he and more than a dozen other students have "been trying to keep the school open."

Iron, 27, said they have been holding classes on indigenous farming and alternative energy to meet the requirements of the school's federal charter, which says classes must be ongoing.

Board trustees, he said, "haven't been holding their courses there, so students have to do it to be in compliance," he said. "The students have been out there tirelessly helping the school … to make sure D-Q could exist, . . .

[Red Badger]

Dairy Queen University?............

[Paleo Conservative]

Is that similar to McDonalds Hamberger U?

[boomop1]

I’ll have a large Butter Finger Blizzard.

[Grampa Dave]

The link below will provide more info than most of us need to know about DQU:

http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?fr=ybr_sbc&p=D-Q%20University

[TexGuy]

Want fries wid dat?

[Hoof Hearted]

"Dairy Queen University?.."

Actually it's Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl University.

It is a "tribal"(?) 2 year college that has always had difficulty since it's founding circa 1970.

[JennysCool]

Class of '09.

[philled]

Probably a good thing they got them out before Billy Jack showed up...

From IMDB

Billy Jack is a half-Indian/half-white ex-Green Beret who is being drawn more and more toward his Indian side. He hates violence, but can't get away from it in the white man's world. Pitting the good guys, the students of the peace-loving free-arts school in the desert vs. the conservative bad guys in the near-by town, the movie plays definitive late-60s themes/messages: anti-establishment, make love not war, the senseless slaughter of God's creatures, the rape of society (figuratively and literally), two-sided justice, racial segregation and prejudices, and basic socialist ideals.

I saw this when I was young. I wasn't especially fond of hippies back then. Now, I rank this as one of the worst films I have ever seen..