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There are two sets of rules. One set for the rulers and another for the rest of us. —Richard Yancey, former IRS tax collector
Posted on 02/20/2009 2:13:25 PM PST by atomic conspiracy
So much for the revolution.
Security guards on Friday dragged the last of the renegade New York University students out of a campus cafeteria where they had been holed up in protest for three days.
"Solidarity! Solidarity!" the fist-pumping rebels yelled as they were ousted from the Kimmel Center.
Four students tried to flee a balcony after campus cops breached their barricade. Others were physically removed - and unceremoniously dumped outside.
"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."
The rest of the two dozen or so protesting students left like lambs, and were greeted outside with cheers by supporters like 21-year-old senior, Clara Green.
"We're not going to take it any more," Green yelled. "This is our university. We should be allowed to stay. This is unfair and unjust."
Many of the other NYU students who stopped to watch the revolt fizzle said they still didn't know what the rebels were trying to accomplish.
"They're requesting so many different things," said Ryan Jacobson, a 19-year-old freshman. "None of it actually seems doable."
Senior NYU vice-president Lynne Brown said that whatever it was, the protesters didn't get it.
NYU did not "bend" to student demands and all the malcontents are banned from all NYU buildings - including the dorms - until their expulsion hearings, Brown said.
"This was an inappropriate forum for protests."
The writing was on the wall at 10 a.m. when four student negotiators went up to the sixth floor of the building to talk with NYU officials - and were ambushed by campus cops.
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Kick the damn hippies out of the school!!!!!!!!!
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.
HAHAHAHA!! "I was physically subdued." HAHAHAHAHA!!!
Morons.
FMCDH(BITS)
They violated my human dignity Mr. Wally!
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.
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.
"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.
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.
Okay, Okay.
I stand corrected.
I can’t sit.
“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.
...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
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
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.
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.
Loved the dormitory = loved the library
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