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Yesterday, a couple hundred Columbia students walked out to protest the war, and CTV News has video, and you'll see protesters chanting for troops to be removed as they march on and around campus (apparently there was free hot chocolate during the cold day). Interestingly, the Columbia College Democrats removed their support for the walk out "in part because of disagreements over whether to call for divestment," according to the NY Sun.
However, there was another incident that countered the walk out. From the Columbia Spectator:
As the strike began, fire alarms went off in Butler Library, Lerner Hall, Hamilton Hall, and Kent Hall, forcing an evacuation of the buildings and an investigation by the New York Fire Department. Later, a group calling itself the Union of Students Advocating for the Preservation of Tedious Paperwork claimed responsibility for the fire alarms in a statement delivered anonymously to Spectator, which called the protest "symbolic, harmless, [and] permissible" and called the strike's organizers "aspiring bureaucrats."The Columbia Daily Spectator also has a documentary of the strike."We pulled fire alarms on campus to disrupt the scripting of both activism and student life," the statement said. "No one should be willing to sit idly in the face of war, nor should they be willing to act as mere extras in a farcical theatre of resistance."
There was also a teach-in, where veterans and professors spoke about a number of Iraq war issues with students. More photographs from The Bwog.
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Protesters: I paid $12,000 in tuition this semester (a sum I will be paying off for years to come as I am by no means wealthy.) This self-incurred-debt entitles me to use resources such as the Butler Library and its 3 million books. On cold days such as yesterday, it also provides me with a warm place to study and to research my work for classes on campus. Thank you for pulling the fire alarm yesterday. I truly appreciated having to pack up all of my materials in a hurry, be herded through the doors by security and pushed out into the snow in the name of your fascist scheme to force participation in your pathetic demonstration.
Read the statement. Maybe pulling the fire alarms was a juvenile prank (I thought it was funny) but the point wasn't to increase participation in the pathetic demonstration.
ok so people bitch about how jake should put all his graffiti posts on his personal blog. can jen do the same for all this columbia crap?? seriously, this is mundane school news appropriate only for columbia's own newspaper....new york city doesn't care AT ALL
I agree with fishtale. There's absolutely nothing interesting about college students protesting. If there wasn't a war, they would have found something else to protest. It is what they do.
Why is it that its always the ugly girls that protest? Hmmm...
Fugh you...maybe if you had something at stake, your opinion would be worth something.
Well I pay the same tuition and was studying in the same library. So, ah, fugh you. I just wanted to point out that members of the "USAPTP" were providing some comic relief and not attempting to swell the number of protesters, er, people milling about Low Plaza. Are you really so busy that leaving the library for a bit just fucked up your whole day?
F.U...I'm not convinced that YOU actually pay your own tuition. As for my being busy, the software I have to run for my research takes about 5-10 minutes just to save files on my laptop (and an equal amount of time to reopen). Add to this the difficulty of finding a place to study in Butler on such cold days and yes, it was a major pain in the ass. Thank you for trivializing what I went through so that the snarkily-named a**holes who did this could make their selfish point. Oh, and the woman who slipped and fell flat on her tailbone while being herded out of Butler's slippery doorway thanks you, too. Dumb bitch. I guess she should have watched where she was going, right?
pulling a fire alarm is harmless?!?
wtf? are these columbia kids really that stupid?
it seems like a lot got accomplished.
i, for one, blame the midwest.
I'm curious from the "pull the troops out now" crowd. You do realize when you make a mess, it's generally considered polite to clean it up, right? At this point, what are you protesting? Cleaning up a civil war that we started?
Or are you the same people who leave your newspapers next to the trashcan in the morning instead of in them? I'm sure the world will think much higher of us now that we went in, blew up the country, leave it in a civil war, then say "hey guys, deal with it." That's a great way to score points worldwide.
i think all those who protest the war in iraq should go over there themselves and try to reason with the insurgents and terrorists. see how far that gets ya
i think all those who protest the war in iraq should go over there themselves and try to reason with the insurgents and terrorists themselves. see how far that gets ya. for christ sakes man, support the armed forces. they are fighting for YOU!
"YES" to unicorns! "YES" to Santa Clause! Magical fairy land take me away.
Huh huh. Setting off fire alarms is COOL! Huh huh. uhhhhhhh... Huh huh huh.
How different would the Vietnam War have been if society had The World Wide Web and PCs in the 60s