Posted on 04/14/2016 9:47:17 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Perhaps campus administrators are starting to learn their lesson. From Ohio State University comes the video of the day — an “actual grownup” (to borrow Ed Driscoll’s words) ordering campus protesters to end their unlawful “occupation” of the university’s administration building: The protesters demands included the usual (and hilarious) potpourri of campus nonsense. Divest from this, invest in that, and stop all the oppression. This time, however, the administration was in no mood to negotiate. Debra Heine has the details: Ohio State Vice President Jay Kasey paid the protesters a visit shortly after the occupation began, with a message from the president. “Dr. Drake will never receive a list of demands and he will not negotiate with you,” Kasey calmly informed the group before moving on to the next part of his conversation, which included the university’s own list of demands. This is where it gets good: “If you refuse to leave, then you will be charged with a student code of conduct violation,” Kasey said. “If you are here at 5:00 a.m. we will clear the building and you will be arrested.” He added, “We will give you the opportunity to go to jail for your beliefs.” “What do you mean by ‘clear the building?’” one of the stunned students asked. Kasey didn’t mince words: “Our police officers will physically pick you up and take you to a paddy wagon,” he answered. “The people who work in this building should be protected also.” He then explained to the incredulous protesters that they’d “scared” several of the employees and that university employees had the right to work without disruption and intimidation. The protesters objected (but one asked for the names of specific, complaining workers) to no avail: Kasey had little patience for it. “We told you, and all we can do is be honest with you. If you’re still here at 5:00, our current philosophy is, we are going to take you out — escort you out of the building and arrest you. You will be discharged from school also,” he noted. Confused, one of the students asked, “discharged as in…?” “Expelled,” Kasey answered flatly. To be clear, students have the First Amendment right to make all the idiotic demands they want to make, and they have a right to do so loudly and continuously in the campus’s public spaces. They do not, however, have the right to occupy public buildings and disrupt the work of the school. Disruption and occupation are acts of civil disobedience, and courageous protesters are willing to accept the consequences of their illegal behavior. These protesters were not courageous. They vacated the premises by 12:30 a.m. I never thought I’d say this, but I’m proud of the Big 10 and ashamed of the SEC. Cowardly Missouri continues to pay the price for last year’s craven capitulation. The university has actually closed two dormitories because of enrollment declines and is battling through a $32 million budget shortfall. We’re all Buckeye fans now — at least until football season.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/434047/ohio-state-university-gives-us-video-day-how-confront-campus-crybabies
What do you mean by “clear the building?” What do you mean by “discharged from the university?” HAHAHAHA Their little games got them nowhere!
Hint: He rode that photo-op to a U.S. Senate seat.
That’s what has happened in the past. The people trying to quiet the little monsters end up having to resign.
If the OU football team threatened to go ‘on strike’ for whatever b.s. grievance or slight these morons are protesting, the boosters would likely boot the administrators.
I'm blown away impressed...
I'm blown away impressed...
Here are their demands. Apparently they picked the wrong target: Israel.
For too long, students have been silenced by OSU administration. Demands by Real Food OSU to create a just, transparent and democratic food system; demands by United Students Against Sweatshops to halt the Comprehensive Energy Management Plan which would further privatize our university; and demands by Committee for Justice in Palestine’s to divest from companies that are complicit in Israeli apartheid; have all been denied by OSU Administration.
We do not know what companies OSU invests in and we do not know how our tuition money is allocated. Requests to see this information have been denied. How is it that OSU refuses to tell us where our money is going? How are we to know that the companies we invest in aren’t complicit in violence and exploitation of others? Because we are refused access to this information, we are unable to confirm that our investments are ethical and we are unable to confirm that our budget is fairly distributed. Ohio State’s refusal to be completely transparent with our money is testament to their prioritization of profit over people.
We are occupying to show that we will not remain complacent while Ohio State continually represses its students, faculty, staff, and those affected by Ohio State’s investments. We are here because these voices deserve to be heard and these demands deserve to be met. We are here because we are fighting for justice and nothing less.
We will not leave this space until both of the below demands are met.
Budget & investments
We demand complete, comprehensive and detailed access to the Ohio State budget and investments immediately, as well as personnel to aid students in understanding this information.
Updates to investments and/or the budget must be publicly stated, publicly available, and provide qualified personnel to aid in understanding these changes and make the information fully accessible to all students, faculty, and staff.
We demand the administration of the Ohio State University be responsive to community calls for justice, transparency and democratic process by meeting at least one of the previously established campaign demands below.
OSU Divest: Divest from Caterpillar Inc., Hewlett Packard and G4S due to their involvement in well-documented human rights abuses in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and across the globe.
United Students Against Sweatshops: Immediately cease all negotiations of the Comprehensive Energy Management Project. The university must maintain in-house operation of its energy systems, ensure that all workers in the energy systems will continue to work for the university, and ensure student led sustainability measures are implemented.
Real Food OSU: Sign the Real Food Campus Commitment. Ensure the administration work with Real Food OSU through the entire implementation of the Real Food Campus Commitment, in place of, or as a means of attaining, the university sustainability goal of increased “production and purchase of locally and sustainably sourced food to 40% by 2025.”
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Thanks GOPJ. Have a great day, all!
If it had been just macro politics, we probably would’ve been shown the door. But in just so happened that the administrators were incompetent and/or corrupt and so there were plenty of good reasons for them to go regardless of our antics.
Should have done this back in the 60s and we wouldn’t be living with the decline we are every day.
Indeed, < p> is your friend.
Snowflakes come in all the colors of the Rainbow.
Many of today’s College Students have the IQ of a Snowflake.
Back in the 1960's, they should have arrested and expelled the first protesters at Berkeley, where all of this stuff started, the minute they crossed the line from peaceful protest to civil disobedience. That would have nipped the whole thing in the bud.
Hopefully schools are learning the lessons of Mizzou Boo Hoo, which lost many of its students and is now having to cut programs because of the snowflakes’ little tantrums.
Should have done this back in the 60s and we wouldn’t be living with the decline we are every day.
Reagan did it. He put Berkeley under martial law. But the University still pretty much got destroyed and in my opinion has never recovered. (I’m a second-generation Cal grad, although my Dad never had a good word to say about Cal after it went downhill in the Sixties.)
Go Buckeyes!
It’s ABOUT DAMN TIME!!
In 1968 Dr. Samuel Hayakawa climbed onto a sound truck commandeered by demonstrators and ripped out its speaker wires.
I read his Language in Thought and Action for English lit.
He was a great American.
Well, then TOSU president Novice Fawcett, Columbus Mayor Ed Sensenbrenner, and Ohio Governor Jim Rhodes cleared the OSU campus of trouble makers back in May of 1970. The smell of tear gas and the gleam of bayonets on a sunny spring afternoon. As much as I agreed with their actions, the rest of establishment at that time caved.
YouTube is our friend. No need to expose yourself to disease to see it.
Go Bucks!
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