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'Revolution' at New York University ends with cafeteria liberated, arrests of students
New York Daily News ^ | 2-2-09 | Caitlan Millat and Corky Siemaszko

Posted on 02/20/2009 2:13:25 PM PST by atomic conspiracy

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To: tsomer
Fiscal 2009 NYU budget plan As you can see, this includes an itemized list of revenue, including grants and endowment income. There is a similar list of expenditures by category. The protestors obviously wanted more details of both, probably including legally confidential information on investments and salaries.
41 posted on 02/20/2009 3:06:32 PM PST by atomic conspiracy (Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
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To: atomic conspiracy

Kick the damn hippies out of the school!!!!!!!!!


42 posted on 02/20/2009 3:07:06 PM PST by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: Retired Greyhound
If you are going to start a fight, make sure you can finish it.

Often phrased as "don't let your mouth write a check your ass can't cash."

In life, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you can negotiate. Chump bluffed with a broken straight and lost the mortgage payment. Not to worry. Obama'll bail his sorry ass out.

43 posted on 02/20/2009 3:07:39 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (The death cult wants death, the Israelis want peace. I, for one, see only one solution.)
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To: atomic conspiracy
"He picked me up by the shoulders and dragged me through the door," complained protest organizer Farah Khimji, a 20-year-old sophomore. "I was physically subdued. I was thrown to the ground."

HAHAHAHA!! "I was physically subdued." HAHAHAHAHA!!!

Morons.

FMCDH(BITS)

44 posted on 02/20/2009 3:14:43 PM PST by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: nothingnew

They violated my human dignity Mr. Wally!


45 posted on 02/20/2009 3:16:07 PM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: sinanju
Where was this kind of resolve towards this sort of thing on the part of campus administrations 40 years ago?

It seems I quote this a lot, but remember the scene in the Dark Knight when Alfred is discussing the Joker with Bruce Wayne?

"I believe you're dealing with someone you don't fully understand."

The sixties radicals had goals, and they weren't just twits goofing in a cafeteria. The real masterminds were originally funded by the Soviets, and they were Marxists, real Marxists, not the trust fund radicals you see running around everywhere. These Marxists jacked up a bunch of useful idiots, and sent them in to get their heads busted by cops. They did it on purpose, to get the sympathetic press coverage. College administrations did not understand the people with whom they were dealing. When the colleges got bad press, they were afraid to act. The Marxists backed them down, then came in and took over.

Of course, most colleges were liberal enclaves, even in the fifties. However, these fifties liberals were not prepared to deal with the sixties radicals, their ideological heirs, but a much more pure and vicious breed.

46 posted on 02/20/2009 3:26:14 PM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: atomic conspiracy

I’m really very pleasasntly surprised. NYU was pretty wimpy back in the 60s, and the faculty is jam-packed with aging radicals and gender benders.


47 posted on 02/20/2009 3:31:32 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Fred Hayek
Nothing sadder than a bunch of engineering students protesting.

"More study groups! More study groups!"
"We want Pi! We want Pi!"
"Aren't there ANY girls ANYWHERE on campus?"
"We're BALD! We're BRAINY! We wear BIRTH CONTROL GLASSES!"
"Free pocket protectors! Free pocket protectors!"
"Khakis and sneakers are cool! Khakis and sneakers are cool"

Sorry. I was a Fine Arts major, so I shouldn't pick on anybody. I always meant to go to the protests, but ended up spending most of my time trying to get girls to pose nude. I found it to be a better way to spend the afternoon.

48 posted on 02/20/2009 3:32:17 PM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: Richard Kimball

The joke at Newark College of Engineering in the sixties:

At Columbia, the students burned down the ROTC building.
At Berkeley, the students took the deans hostage.
At NCE, we were to damn busy studying.


49 posted on 02/20/2009 3:37:04 PM PST by Fred Hayek (Leftism is a mental disorder.)
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To: atomic conspiracy
It's becoming quite obvious the protesters cannot read.
I'd like to see their GPA.
50 posted on 02/20/2009 3:39:27 PM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: atomic conspiracy; Alberta's Child

Okay, Okay.

I stand corrected.

I can’t sit.


51 posted on 02/20/2009 3:41:39 PM PST by tsomer
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To: EQAndyBuzz

“Next up come the lawsuits from the little Eichmanns parents.”

So true...the parents. Most of them pay a few pretty bucks for that private school. I wonder how they feel now that their kids have thrown it all away.


52 posted on 02/20/2009 5:34:52 PM PST by BobL (Drop a comment: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2180357/posts)
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To: Richard Kimball

...Protests? What protests? Most of us are too busy trying not to get kicked in the teeth by our systems classes to shower, much less notice that there’s a world outside of the library. As one of my professors said; “Of course they don’t protest. When do they have the time?” :D


53 posted on 02/20/2009 5:38:12 PM PST by CatInTheBox (I've got... the Knack.)
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To: CatInTheBox
And THAT'S why I was an Art major. Three letters, all in alphabetical order.

BTW, I was reading an article about the guy that supervised the creation of Windows XP. He said, "You just need to understand what's important to programmers and what isn't.

Important:
Fast computers
Junk food
Free Diet Coke

Unimportant:
Social life
Hygiene

54 posted on 02/20/2009 5:57:38 PM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: Cicero
I was a student in the old NYU College of Engineering at the former Bronx campus in the early 60’s. We had the first sit in in that era in NYC. I sat in in the public lobby area of my own dormitory for a day and night, finally the administration said ‘go’ and we went back to our rooms. We were complaining about costs also, Tuition 1500/year, Room and Board 1500/year. Times change, huh? Back then almost everyone, not including me, was Jewish. If that is still true, things have gotten even stranger with Palestinian support.
55 posted on 02/20/2009 5:58:12 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: tsomer
Education is the only industry that has escaped scrutiny.

Right. And one reason why it has escaped scrutiny -- at least on the university level -- is that this country is filled with wealthy and not-so-wealthy morons who are willing to spend $200,000 on a useless undergraduate education for their pampered kids.

The combination of idiotic consumers, stunted young adults, and overpriced "services" is a recipe for disaster.

56 posted on 02/20/2009 6:59:14 PM PST by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

I taught for a while at the Bronx campus, beginning in 1968. Somebody firebombed the library, but fortunately they managed to put it out.

And I remember asking a young woman in the front row of one of my classes what happened to her arm, when she turned up one day wearing a cast. She said she broke it jumping out of a window during a sit-in.

There was a nutcase professor in the history department who used to preach revolution out in the quadrangle in front of the library. One day I walked past and his only apparent audience was a bunch of squirrels.

Jay Oliva was the dean of the Bronx campus back then. I remember when he exchanged his blue pinstripe for leisure suits, to fit in better with the times. He knew better than to confront any of the revolutionaries. As a result he later became president of NYU when some of the better administrators left in despair.

During Nixon’s Cambodian incursion, the faculty voted to protest by refusing to give the students any grades. I was one of the few to vote against. So we gave everyone a grade of “Pass,” but the administration then instructed us to turn in sheets of paper with the grades we WOULD have given our students if we had graded them. They then provided that information to future employers or graduate schools, separately from the official transcript. Typical of the weasel behavior of that time.


57 posted on 02/20/2009 7:29:32 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero
Nice campus in the Bronx, famous for its black squirrels. I lived in the new dormitory, overhanging Sedgewick Avenue. Loved the dormitory, patterned more after the original Pantheon than Jefferson's modifications at UVA. I liked seeing the campus in A Beautiful Mind and a couple of Law and Order shows. I left after 1963, so it was really still in the 50's, not yet the 60's nonsense.
58 posted on 02/20/2009 10:35:42 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Loved the dormitory = loved the library


59 posted on 02/20/2009 10:56:35 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: Old Sarge
"Help, Help, I'm being repressed - witness the violence inherent in the system!!"

BUMP
*snicker* Monty Python's Holy Grail

"Socialism is great until you run out of someone elses money" Margaret Thatcher
There are two sets of rules. One set for the rulers and another for the rest of us. —Richard Yancey, former IRS tax collector

60 posted on 02/20/2009 11:06:15 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (just b/c you're paranoid, doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you.. :^)
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