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STUDENTS CONTINUING SIT-IN TO PUSH BOARD TO DIVEST OF FOSSIL FUELS [Mary Wash. in Va]
Free Lance - Star newspaper (Fredericksburg Va) ^ | 4 April 2015 | Lindley Estes / Free Lance - Star

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: divest; dopeydems; fossilfuels; marywashington; umw; usefulidiots
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To: lesko

I remember it well. It was an extra study day between the last day of class and the first day of finals.


41 posted on 04/09/2015 9:54:44 AM PDT by Gamecock (Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
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To: SandRat

Cheese & Whine peoples !


42 posted on 04/09/2015 9:55:05 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: mbarker12474

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?


43 posted on 04/09/2015 9:55:06 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: mbarker12474

Let’s see how their carbon conscious feels when their tuition skyrockets to $100K a year.


44 posted on 04/09/2015 9:58:50 AM PDT by Wildbill22 (They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton Williams Abrams)
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To: mbarker12474

So called educational institutions now teach ignorance and stupidity.


45 posted on 04/09/2015 10:09:13 AM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: mbarker12474

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!?


46 posted on 04/09/2015 10:11:04 AM PDT by vpintheak (Call the left what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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To: Red_Devil 232

And take away their cars.


47 posted on 04/09/2015 10:14:53 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: RnMomof7
"Children in search of a cause"

This replaces the tantrums they used to throw to get attention. Maturity shows up late with some of them (and never in others).

48 posted on 04/09/2015 10:21:41 AM PDT by capt. norm (Don't worry if plan A fails, there are 25 more letters in the alphabet.)
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To: Arm_Bears

Shouldn’t the headline read “typical naive, parent-supported leftist students demonstrate their abject ignorance”?


49 posted on 04/09/2015 10:21:47 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: capt. norm

Rebels without a clue.


50 posted on 04/09/2015 10:22:32 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: exit82

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.


51 posted on 04/09/2015 10:23:01 AM PDT by OldBullrider (if yur hurt, rub some dirt on it, and get back to work)
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To: dfwgator

a Socialist’s Paradise!..........................


52 posted on 04/09/2015 10:24:19 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: mbarker12474
Methinks NATE LEVINE believes this whole "electricity" thing is over rated.

5.56mm

53 posted on 04/09/2015 10:27:06 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: exit82

Finally, a sane comment. You must be a Chemical Engineer.


54 posted on 04/09/2015 10:29:11 AM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: fireman15

The earth has warmed .07 degrees Celsius. That is enough to give children asthma. Just ask Stompy Foot.


55 posted on 04/09/2015 10:39:51 AM PDT by Bucky14 (And I would have gotten away with it too, if not for you meddling kids!)
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To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed

No, I am a Civil.

But I did love my Chem courses!


56 posted on 04/09/2015 10:43:47 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: mbarker12474
Nate Levine's family must be proud of him wasting their tuition on a protest. If he was my son, I'd say, "Don't come back asking for $$$, since you want to protest instead of learn."

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...

57 posted on 04/09/2015 10:46:25 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: LostInBayport

What is the bus running on... foot power?


58 posted on 04/09/2015 10:48:24 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: mbarker12474
Feminists United on Campus. FUC? Someone has a sense of humor....
59 posted on 04/09/2015 10:48:59 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: dfwgator

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)


60 posted on 04/09/2015 11:01:58 AM PDT by DaveA37
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