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After over 24 hours of occupying the student center (which started Wednesday night), NYU students part of "Take Back NYU" continue to occupy the Kimmel Center, hoping the administration will meet their demands. The demands begin with "Full legal and disciplinary amnesty for all parties involved in the occupation" and "Full compensation for all employees whose jobs were disrupted during the course of the occupation." and also include "Public release of NYU’s annual operating budget, including a full list of university expenditure," "Disclosure of NYU’s endowment holdings," and "annual scholarships be provided for thirteen Palestinian student." There's also something for non-NYU folks: "The general public have access to Bobst Library."
While Thursday saw solidarity and media requests, some students question the group's methods. One told NYU Local, "I think its irrelevant that NYU, as a private institution, comment on the situation in Gaza. It seems out of place with the more important demands TBNYU! could be making" while another told the Washington Square News, "It’s not right for a small group to take away space that the rest paid for the right to access." The WSN also had a quote from (updated) someone standing next to NYU College Republicans President Hampton Williams: "Get the hell out — we don’t want you here. It doesn’t take a bunch of Republicans to tell you’re a bunch of irrelevant, ignorant fuckheads.” (Williams tells us he never made that comment.)
NYU administration told Take Back NYU protesters that they needed to be out of the Kimmel Center by 1 a.m. but the protesters noted how they had hundreds of supporting outside, many singing, "We're not gonna take it." Embedded student reporter Charlie Eisenhood, who has been detailing the occupation for NYU Local, writes, "1:04 - We’ve been offered a chance to leave now. I can’t leave. I’ve been following this story for over 28 hours straight. I know you all are waiting to hear what happens. I got you. I’m in it for the long haul."
However, the NYPD has mobilized officers at Washington Square Park and the NYU Local Twitter feed says things like: "Police on horseback, ambulance driver says his presence is precautionary, smell of pepper spray in air," "First arrest of kid outside trying to climb "no parking" sign os kimmel," and "Violence in the streets. People are actively fighting cops."
Update, 8:30 a.m.: Here's video of the scene outside the Kimmel Center from earlier this morning; NYU Local estimated the crowd to be 700 "anarchists, radicals, media-types, and those timid masses that stayed out in the cold in the hopes of seeing bloody skulls or zip-tied wrists being paraded along West 4th Street." The police did apparently pepper spray the crowd.
As for the Kimmel Center? Still occupied by Take Back NYU, as of 3 a.m.! The group writes:
The administration’s negotiation consisted of repeating the same ultimatum over and over. They proposed probation (not amnesty in the slightest) for all students involved in the occupation, a disbanding of the occupation and the ability to meet with only two administrators in order to meet to discuss the demands. So… basically they offered to blacklist us, end the occupation and we get 5 minutes in a room with Lynne Brown (Senior Vice President for University Relations and Public Affairs) and Linda Mills (Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and University Life). This is not negotiation, this is mandate with no room for bargaining.The dream lives on! And one police officer predicted to NYU Local, "One More Day of this Shit - It can't continue with nothing on the other side."This is for the students who work three jobs to attend the school of their dreams. This is for the students in Gaza, whose university is destroyed and can no longer study. This is for workers in Abu Dhabi building our facilities with no human rights to speak of. We are a global university and our actions are connected to world events, whether we like it or not. It is our responsibility. We have voices. Let’s use them.
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This pisses me off. I have the misfortune of attending the New School and I am tired of seeing comparisons between the protests at the New School and NYU. My "university" doesn't even have a library at this point. The New School has real problems and these NYU brats are essentially inventing issues to protest about. What's worse, some of the hippie dipshits at the New School have joined the protests at NYU. I know I am being extremely uncharitable, but if NYU kids are worried about social justice they should volunteer their time to help out some of the members of the NYC community who are in need. (Please forgive my cross-posting).
FYI - The New School students have access to the NYU library
"The general public have access to Bobst Library."
The library system at NYU was already overtaxed when I was a student. I've lost count of the number of times reading materials I needed were either checked out or being renewed, and other books were frequently misplaced in the open stacks so it was impossible to find them.
There are plenty of libraries available to the public in the city. Access and privileges to Bobst should be reserved for students who are paying tuition.
Funniest video ever: Occupiers decide to flee the building upon realizing the cops outside are hitting and pepper spraying people and they're next.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQsjmgwKQ1I
Thanks—adding to the post.
I'm for public access to their library.
I've heard they have decent job postings posted.
they should break out the M80's. I still have some stuff stashed in the suspended ceiling at my dorm. bet it's still there.
My apartment's horribly corrupt and unresponsive and supports Israel's invasion of Gaza. The Feminist Ninjas better come by and stage an "action".
At first, I thought that the protest was done out of irony and was a hilarious act of metahumor. Seriously, this whole thing couldn't be more cliche. Are these people self-aware at all?
"Free Palestine.. and the library... and financial records. No coke."
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OK, boys, set your night sticks on "whomp."
...
You may crush our bodies and our ponchos, but you'll never silence our song of protest!
Uptown girl! She's been living in her uptown world!
“Get the hell out — we don’t want you here,” he said. “It doesn’t take a bunch of Republicans to tell you’re a bunch of irrelevant, ignorant fuckheads.”
You can imagine my surprise to read this when in fact I did not say this. Please retract this statement. It was not made by me. There was a kid next to me who shouted this who was not a Republican making the point that it wasn't just the College Republicans who opposed TBNYUs tactics. If you have any questions feel free to contact me. Thank you.
Best wishes,
Hampton Williams
President
NYU College Republicans
Did you personally confirm his political affiliation before stating that the "kid next to you" was not a Republican?
http://www.nyunews.com/news/university/kimmel_in_limbo-1.1487888
The students called their bluff last night and stood firm
http://nyulocal.com/on-campus/2009/02/20/take-back-nyu-calls-nyus-1am-bluff/
Alex Deschamps (Steinhardt 09′)
Attempted to climb a ‘No Parking’ sign in front of Kimmel and was pulled down by a group of NYPD police officers and taken into a squad car. NYU student Jordan Meisner knocked on the police car window, asked why his friend was being removed, and was told by a police officer that Alex was being arrested for striking a police officer.
http://nyulocal.com/
Can we please focus on relevant, vital, newsworthy details? From now on, please limit all coverage to the Feminist Ninjas. This has been a public service announcement. Thank you.
I'm all for it: The Feminist Ninjas—besides fighting the fight, of course—seem fun and foxy. Those middle-aged press guys seemed not to be too upset about covering this story.
And besides, Naked Smoking Women really show how serious this is...
More The Feminist Ninjas!!
;)
Foxy?
Skanky is the word that leaps to mind in this case.
All these trust fund babies need to be expelled.
My god, can we please dispel the myth that everyone who attends NYU is a "trust fund baby?" It is simply not true. While yes, there are many wealthy students in the institution, most students I know, including myself, must work in order to fund part or all of their experience at NYU. I mean really, how many times have you run into a young-looking employee in the downtown area only to discover that (s)he is in fact an NYU student? Waiters? Baristas? Theater ushers? Bartenders? We are part of the local economy, plain and simple.
In addition, many of those involved in the protest sincerely care about the surrounding community. Not only have they chronically spent their time volunteering for local charities or created their own, they have demanded to know if any part of their tuition is going toward destroying the local area (which undoubtedly it has). This is part of the transparency demand. And these aren't native New Yorkers. What have you done?
These snotty brats can pay for the palestinians' tuition themselves. Does NYU have a bomb-making course? I recall hearing Bill Ayers was active in education these days.
Sorry kids, but this is not Columbia, so your "voices" will not be taken seriously....
A few hours later, more students forcefully joined the takeover. Shortly after 9 p.m., a large group of students rushed into the dining hall, pouring through a back staircase and sprinting down a hallway, dodging guards and metal barricades.
Twenty-eight students made it inside the cafeteria. Two guards were injured in the break-in; one was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital in an ambulance for wounds to the head. A student inside the barricaded room sustained minor cuts and bruises.
http://www.nyunews.com/news/university/kimmel_in_limbo-1.1487888
I bet most of these goofy kids don't even know what they are protesting for...
Is it like May 68 reunited ? Occupying you university, College or "Fac"as we call is the only way sometimes to make grown ups listen... Good for them ! Just ad a little bit of nakedness, a little bit of guitar playing in an empty class room, some fight fight with the police and a LOTS of cigarettes and there you are : Paris, La Sorbonne !
Thank God the French Exist ...
Hi President Sexton: The chickens are coming home to roost!
These demonstrations couldn't happen to a more deserving SOB.
NYU has been riding roughshod over the community for years, turning The Village into its own private campus, destroying buildings, ruining neighborhoods, all for the $$$$.
At least some of the students know how to deal with this horrible institution. They should ignore the miserable, right-wing, old farts and don't give up till their demands are met.
I'd show up for the bared breasts.
damn, madoff, Foxton and villehuchets committed suicide, and now NYU students are rioting over financial disclosure. Maddoff won't even show up in todays' meeting.
Someone made a terrible mistake in staging this occupation. In Che's Manual of Guerrilla Warfare and Assorted Tactics I Know Nothing About, Chapter 5, "Successful Occupation of a Private University", it says the following:
I think Bloomie will tell the Commish to end it today - I doubt they will be paying cops more overtime over the weekend.......
I call for SOLICHAIRITY: http://solichairity.com -- who is with me?
with
We demand dark corridors, light-up skulls, tipping floors and airjets at the exits! We shouldn''t be able to trust our senses! Chairs shouldn’t stay put under our cushy bottoms and gravity shouldn't be completely reliable! Got that?!
then Georgina Bloomberg, who is not a hot chick, should have been part of the protest
hot chicks won't stop Bloomberg, he is asexual, or NYPD, who are haters.
What exactly are they protesting? That a private school that they chose to attend is not giving money to charity? I have a solution: transfer to a state school and donate the difference in tuition to any cause you want.
May be a Hamas "charity," to support those oh-so-cute suicide bombers. Forgive the sarcasm, it's too early in the morning.
NYU does not negotiate with terrorists. :)
So protesters are terrorists? Or just when its convinient wiht your political views right?
more nipples please
students are terrorists?, it is amazing how anyone that dissents is now labeled a terrorist. what propaganda.
How about people who injured the guards?
A terrorists is someone who injures a guard? I don't agreed. A terrorist bombs schools and UN buildings.
Rights for arabs, subsidizes for Palestinians terrorists, embargo against Isreal business doing companies, only Al-qaeda can be doing this. Whats next, demanding interment of jews into camps in Isreal Palestine?
"A terrorists is someone who injures a guard?"
You're right: I hit submit too fast.
The ones that injured the guards are, IMO, criminals not terrorists.
hold on, these aren't feminists...their underarms are shaved!
Wrong, they are 3rd wave feminists.
Terrorists bomb children and UN trucks.
I'd hit that!
Probably wouldent be too difficult...
nyu sucks by the way...other than Stern Grad and the Law School, its a complete ripoff exploiting kiddies who grew up watching Felicity , Friends, Gossip Girl, etc
nice boobies. Give it to their demands. boobies rule
Felix, I'm a little surprised at your chauvinistic comments.
After all, what would the Sea Kittens think?
PS you will see more boobies as you get older. Hopefully before your 21st birthday.
Valeriob, why are you hating? Just because you are a throw back?
so how about just finding a different school to go to? that's always an option, free market choice and all.
An option yes, but what other school would willingly accept their emo attitudes and haircuts?
SUNY Buffalo :)
::UPDATE::
Recently added to their list of demands;
-A Novelty sized Baby Bottle
-A Novelty sized football helmet filled with Cottage Cheese.
-Speakers. Lots of speakers.
Is that an Airheads reference I see? =D
Awesome! Thank you hehe
What about the naked pictures of Bea Arthur?
al-Qaida has taken hostage NYU!
call homeland security!
Valeriob, you wish you looked 1/2 as good as those girls.
Bro, I'm a dude.
your are a dude and you have problems with boobs? what a boob
Boobies! Ninja boobies!
Please make NSFW like twelve times bigger and bold. I never read the photo captions until after I see the photos.
look, i get that it's a private institution, one that they have a choice to frequent or not, but MANY of their demands are reasonable and involve improving transparency and finding a way to, possibly, improve the destroyed relationship with the community. i'm an alumna of nyu, i have, and have always had, serious issues with the administration, so why not demand that certain things change?
the choice doesn't always have to be "take it or leave it", sometimes it really can be about taking something and transforming it, even in small ways, to make it just a bit better.
though as far as bobst is concerned, i would settle for better alumni access - i can get in easier to my father's alma mater's library than my own.
Don't these students have classes, homework, papers to write, studying to do?
Why does NYU need to be a affordable it's a private college? They can charge whatever they heart desires. NYU has a bunch of brats and stuck ups. It doesn't seem cool when you tell someone I went/attending SUNY Albany, but NYU is like wow, lucky you.
Spoiled, bored college kiddies with a plan and van. How cute!
Spoiled, bored college kiddies with a plan and van. How cute!
I see an independent film coming out.
nyu shut off internet in kimmel
The end has come: http://twitter.com/NYULocal
you can't protest in NYC, it isn't athens. Bloomberg protect only his first amendment right and not others.
one last glance at the boobs, honestly, those are really nice bombs. I like small and high ones.
Seriously, you can't be more than 12 years old.
Why all the "Free Palestine" business? I was actually about 10% interested in what they were doing, until I heard the random Middle-East-centric demands How is that relevant? This protest was either organized by radical Islamists or self-hating Jews, and I can't support either of those groups.
And NYU is a private university, they don't owe anybody anything. If this was 1968, cool, occupy university buildings, woo! But the time for that has passed. That revolution is over, college kids may still be relevant, but in a very different way than they were 40 years ago.
These are the types of people in there;
"Everyone was pretty chill, but some people got out of hand, and that's when problems started," said freshman Brooke Lieberwitz, 18, who majors in tourism. "
18 years old... AND a TOURISM major? ::shakes head::
From herer : http://tinyurl.com/bm3d3o
Tourism is just another fancy word for Whoreism.
Chlorophyll, more like BOREophyll!