Gothamist: Video of the Day: Columbia's Walk Out War Protest

BODYGUARDS

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:22:34 -0500

How different would the Vietnam War have been if society had The World Wide Web and PCs in the 60s

beavis

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:07:54 -0500

Huh huh. Setting off fire alarms is COOL! Huh huh. uhhhhhhh... Huh huh huh.

ojo

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:02:35 -0500

"YES" to unicorns! "YES" to Santa Clause! Magical fairy land take me away.

jmac

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:08:38 -0500

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!

jmac

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:01:12 -0500

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

Tom

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:04:19 -0500

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.

matty

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:19:27 -0500

i, for one, blame the midwest.

matt

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:55:51 -0500

it seems like a lot got accomplished.

b

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:52:20 -0500

pulling a fire alarm is harmless?!? wtf? are these columbia kids really that stupid?

fugh

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:47:15 -0500

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?

fugh you

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:07:09 -0500

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?

fugh

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:52:27 -0500

Fugh you...maybe if you had something at stake, your opinion would be worth something.

Andrew

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:50:42 -0500

Why is it that its always the ugly girls that protest? Hmmm...

PleaseShutUp

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:35:22 -0500

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.

fishtale

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:27:51 -0500

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

fugh you

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:17:07 -0500

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.

fugh

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:03:26 -0500

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.

jason

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:45:00 -0500

cute.