Tyree Landrum is correct.
His fellow commuters are correct.
The students are flat out WRONG.
Besides, students have no business engaging in this sort of anarchy, blocking traffic, etc. ...
They should be applying themselves to their studies, doing their homework, research papers, and lab reports.
Back when I was going for my degree, I didn’t have time to do the sort of CR@p these students pulled.
You were getting a degree in something requiring real work, a hard science or engineering I’m guessing from the “lab reports” in your post. These guys wouldn’t know a lab report if it bit them on the butt.
You have plenty of free time if you’re majoring in gender studies, social “science” or the like.