Posted on 04/09/2015 9:26:10 AM PDT by mbarker12474
DivestUMW sit-in spans a week [University of Mary Washington in Virginia, fossil fuel divestment]
STUDENTS CONTINUING SIT-IN TO PUSH board TO DIVEST OF FOSSIL FUELS
“WE’RE STILL GOING STRONG. WE’RE SUPPORTING EACH OTHER AND THE SUPPORT FROM FACULTY AND ALUMNI KEEPS US GOING.” NATE LEVINE, UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON JUNIOR
Posted: Saturday, April 4, 2015 12:00 am
BY LINDLEY ESTES/THE FREE LANCE-STAR
University of Mary Washington junior Nate Levine was planning to spend Easter at home with his family.
As a member of DivestUMW, he will instead celebrate at a sit-in protest in the first floor hallway of George Washington Hall.
“We’re still going strong,” he said. “We’re supporting each other and the support from faculty and alumni keeps us going.”
The sit-in, which turned a week old on Thursday, is made up of students who want UMW to rid its endowment of investments in fossil fuel companies.
The protest began March 26 with 20 people sitting outside of University of Mary Washington President Rick Hurley’s office.
About 130 people spent some time at the sit-in over the course of the week.
DivestUMW club members have specific demands for this sit-in: that the board create a subcommittee to study divestment and commit to pulling all of the university’s investments in the coal industry by 2016. The board decided earlier in March not to create the subcommittee.
“We’ve been sitting in one week and continue to get really empty rhetoric and responses from the board of visitors,” DivestUMW member Rabib Hasan said.
He also said the atmosphere on campus has changed.
On Monday, the Feminists United on Campus club held a march against rape culture, and on Wednesday, students protested tuition hikes.
Hasan said he thinks students are holding their governing body more accountable.
DivestUMW member Sarah Kinzer said they don’t have an end date for the sit-in, and they won’t leave until their demands are met. She said a UMW alumnus has promised to bring them Easter dinner.
Lindley Estes: 540.735-1976 lestes@freelancestar.com
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Several articles/posts by writer Lindley Estes on this topic. A more recent article is "DivestUMW reaching out to prospective students" at: http://www.fredericksburg.com/news/divestumw-reaching-out-to-prospective-students/article_902a8a21-73f0-5482-88f4-3eab5f02176c.html
I remember it well. It was an extra study day between the last day of class and the first day of finals.
Cheese & Whine peoples !
What is a fossil fuel?
All that oil and natural gas did not come from plants and dinosaurs.
We use 21 million barrels of oil a day in America alone.
How many dinosaurs do you think that would take?
Let’s see how their carbon conscious feels when their tuition skyrockets to $100K a year.
So called educational institutions now teach ignorance and stupidity.
Kollege Kids are sooooo smart. I mean, we should just listen to them, and do what they want! I mean, they have so much knowledge and life experience; and with those marxist professors teaching them, how could it go wrong you know!?
And take away their cars.
This replaces the tantrums they used to throw to get attention. Maturity shows up late with some of them (and never in others).
Shouldn’t the headline read “typical naive, parent-supported leftist students demonstrate their abject ignorance”?
Rebels without a clue.
You are correct. Just as our bodies produce waste and gas (that is flammable), the earth produces the crude oil and natural gas. That is a renewable energy source. I only went to college for two years, I could not stand the level of stupidity there.
a Socialist’s Paradise!..........................
5.56mm
Finally, a sane comment. You must be a Chemical Engineer.
The earth has warmed .07 degrees Celsius. That is enough to give children asthma. Just ask Stompy Foot.
No, I am a Civil.
But I did love my Chem courses!
The president of MWU should be removed for letting these children have a sit in... if I was the MWU president... they would be arrested in 10 minutes...
What is the bus running on... foot power?
I hope they sit-in long enough to fail from school, it tells me they are already dumb enough to be dropped. (And don’t forgive their student loans either)
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