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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The police should have tazed all of them for wasting department time.
“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.”
Yea...finally some good news.
“I was physically subdued. I was thrown to the ground.”
That’s right, ya little maggot, because in the real world, the most important question is, “can you kick my ass?”
If you are going to start a fight, make sure you can finish it.
Hmm, who let the kid with common sense into NYU? This freshman is in for a long four years there.
“Stupid hippies” indeed.
Where was this kind of resolve towards this sort of thing on the part of campus administrations 40 years ago? We’ve got a whole generation of “stupid hippies” running our universities now.
I guess that was it, the NYU bosses recognized these tactics all too well and did what their elders did not do back in the day.
Bingo!
Just saw the students being interviewed on TV.
The brats seemed shocked that they are getting expelled.
**Then came talking points in which the protestors also demanded scholarships for Palestinian students - and for supplies to be donated to the Islamic University of Gaza.**
Figures.
Then came talking points in which the protestors also demanded scholarships for Palestinian students - and for supplies to be donated to the Islamic University of Gaza.
Just some little Jihadis seeing how far the Infidel host will bend over. They'll be back with their president if necessary.
What were they protesting?
I hate to say this, but much of our youth disgust me. I've really lost all patience for these spoiled punks.
LOL
I never saw this kind of stuff when I was in college in the 70’s. But then I attended a school that was primarily engineering. Most everyone was busy doing some real studying.
LOL, this is too funny. Good for NYU, booting them out!
All’s well that ends well. Campus police are no longer the keystone cops they once were. The campus police at the local college attend the state police academy, get considerable in-service training, and back-up (and in-turn are backed up) by local and state police. They were getting pretty professional in the last few years anyway, but the nut who shot up VPI precipitated even more attention to campus security. Any college nowadays which can’t handle a bunch of law-breaking students ought to hang it up. Way to go, NYU. You just raised the bar for the rest of the colleges.
I'd say that pretty much sums it up.
Robert Bork once said that boredom has played a bigger role in the decline of this nation than any other factor. I think he was right on target.
They also wanted to re-institute the ban on Coca Cola products.
Friggen idiots. I hope they’re happy they’re going to have to be paying back Obama’s stimulus for decades to come.
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