1. For these idiots to get coverage and legitimacy, there must be a writer and string of editors/publisher at the local newspaper which doesn't simply run this news story, but runs it carrying a sympathetic tone and not a shred of scrutiny of the idiotic premises and worldview of the protestors. How can one call themselves a journalist, claim to have a brain, and run the story in the straight-up, zero-scrutiny fashion as done here?
2. Some students have occupied one of the buildings at UMW now for 14 days. For this to happen, several layers of administration at UMW have had accede to what otherwise would be considered trespassing, illegal behavior, etc., in a "public" building. As was the case at Columbia in 1968, why isn't the administration sending in the cops to crack heads? Are these protesting students the ONLY persons with an interest in the functioning of this PUBLIC university? Why do Virginia's taxpayers put up with an administration which does not toss these vagrants off of campus and expel them?
Children in search of a cause
Turn the A/C off!
Let’s go see what these brats & elitist faculty are driving....
I wonder how many of these little cherubs have cars. Activism starts at home, kids.
Is this what passes for “critical thinking” now-a-daze?
Then they better get rid of all their modern conveniences, electronics and food........................
We need to raise the voting age to 25.
I am for their cause! I insist that they be banned from all use of fossil fuels. Plastics, cars, mass transit, electricity: THEY MAY NOT USE IT.
Just yards away from this campus, American soldiers sacrificed their lives for real causes in 1862-63.
Kids these days.
Pathetic really.
The school, actually a public school, has an endowment of $41 MM. So selling a few thousands shares of oil companies will really show them. Since the school is state supported how about the state cut the funding from the school by the amount of taxes collected from fossil fuel related activity. That will make them happy right???
So how much of Virginia’s coal taxes paid for that school and the salaries of its staff?
Perhaps they would like them to invest in some of those negative interest bonds that are being sold in Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe?
By the way; do you know what field the highest paid grad was in last year? He was a petroleum engineer.
colleges are the perfect petrie dish to grow this kind of political microbe.
Things haven’t changed since I went to college way back when. Students and faculty are still self-aggrandized know-it-alls.
I think the college administration should agree to reduce their consumption of fossil fuels by turning the heat and electricity off to the dorm rooms of all students participating in the sit-in, and by forbidding the students involved to bring any motorized vehicle onto campus. If they own a car or motorcycle, they must keep it off campus grounds and walk everywhere on campus. That should help reduce the college’s “carbon footprint” a bit, right? And it should help the students feel virtuous and self-righteous without impacting others.
They want to go back to the good old days of... whale oil! Perfect.
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.