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The final results of the three-day protest inside the NYU Kimmel Center are two students arrested, 18 more suspended, no demands met for the protesting group Take Back NYU! and several leftover buckets of unused kitty litter. NYU spokesman James Devitt told reporters, "We offered them a dialogue a couple of times, and they rejected it both times, and then we moved ahead in this regard."
Take Back NYU! however certainly doesn't seem to be showing that they've tasted defeat. In their official statement following the protest they said, "No suspensions, expulsions or arrests can contain what began in the last two days...This protest is just a beginning to what is to come."
NYU Local summarizes the affair with the headline "How a Fringe Group at NYU Went From Being Disliked to Loathed." On their website, 86% of the 1,000-plus respondents to their poll feel that the protest failed to accomplish anything. Take Back NYU! would disagree with that assessment, saying, "When we succeeded, we did so because the passion of our movement shone through the smoke and mirrors cast by the NYU administration. When we failed it was only because we underestimated the lengths NYU will go to in order to deter any real criticism of its policies."
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protest FAIL!
Here's hoping the photos of these turds and the topless chicks follow them around for the rest of their lives and prevent them from obtaining any viable employment.
Real feminists don't shave their pits. Guess these idiots failed Womens History 101.
How else would you be able to live in a multi-million dollar condo conversion on 23rd St? Duh...
I think the NY Post put it best:
link to post article
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02212009/news/regionalnews/nyu_boobs_leave_156255.htm
The lengths to which NYU will go to in order to deter any real criticism of its policies is apparently shutting down internet service within the occupied area.
These protest-kiddies forgot to even pack their own lunchboxes. NYU ended up feeding them through out the occupation. So at least one of their demands was met--a supply of vegan cookies.
Let this be a lesson to all future mini-Ches.
So, you're saying the University should continue to provide internet service to students who are willfully refusing to leave a University building?
um ok.
They let them have their wi-fi for over 24 hours, but enough is enough.
I need to rehone my sarcasm.
Yep, Massive fail...
Well, looks and brains notwithstanding, there is a reason these nudnicks couldn't get into better schools - and yes, they have to settle for a middling institution that charges them an arm and a leg...
some people got to to tell their children about protesting the invasion of cambodia at their college in Ohio and now some people will get to tell their children about protesting for vegan cookies at NYU. what is wrong with this picture?
These kids make me sick. Why do they care about the cost of tuition? 99% of the kids at NYU have their tuition paid for by their parents. They should put their efforts and protests towards something important, like world hunger, poverty, any cause but this. It really just looks like a bunch of spoiled kids trying to act all "revolutionary". Congratulations, you make asses of yourself to all of NYC.
If NYU is not affordable there are tons of state schools with the same education as NYC that are affordable.
Disagree. Not many schools have a film department like NYU has. Name three other universities that teach filmmaking better than NYU.
Columbia, USC, UCLA
I have to try one of these vegan cookies, they must be DAMN good!
The parents of these revolutionaries are not going to be happy after they spent all that money and not getting a degree.
Future dialogue, "Where did you go to school?" "NYU." "When did you graduate?" "Um. Um. How do you like your vegan cookie? I get mine locally here in Bushwick.""
Protest Obama and his Pell Grant stimulus and more education spending if you really want to make higher education affordable. All those things do is raise the cost of education for all, while the poor still get to go for free. It wipes out the middle class---another upside down liberal policy.
Fucking morons.
The poor do not go to college for free in this country.
According to Wikipedia: "In 2005-06, the maximum Pell Grant covered one-third of the yearly cost of higher education at a public four-year institution; twenty years ago, it covered 60% of a student's cost of attendance."
Also, many Merit Scholarships go to middle class or wealthy people who can afford to pay for college, because they had the benefit of going to a high school in a wealthy district that can afford to give them extra help with their grades.
Also, people from poorer backgrounds may not know the difference between a private loan, and federal loan for college, and they get taken advantage of by loan lenders. The difference being that a federal loan doesn't have to be paid back for years and it doesn't have the liability that a private loan has.
Also, Federal Loans may not be enough for a student to cover tuition, and they have to work and take out additional private loans.
I know someone from a working class background who went to NYU grad school. Now they are stuck with big monthly loan bills.... They weren't even planning to attend NYU, but they got accepted, and NYU to someone from an immigrant background can seem like the ticket to a better life.
NYU used to be a commuter school, and still has commuters... You should not judge all NYU students by those who can afford to live in the East Village Dorms.
It is much cheaper for an out of school NYU student to get a studio apartment for 600 dollars in Jersey City ten minute's train ride from school than to spend 800 plus a month to live in a dorm and share a room.
That being said, these protesters should have done a better job advertising their demands BEFORE the occupation, and stuck to one or two key reasonable demands.
Why only Israel?
Why not Sierra Leone, too? Or- oh I don't know- disadvantaged students HERE IN NYC? Oh, I guess that's not glamourous enough for NYU stdents. That would require too much thought and organization.
No ready- made controversy bandwagon there.
If these kids don't like NYU, why don't they just transfer?
At least a private institution (NYU) that would be just another over priced middling college if it weren't for its desireable location, could actually give back to the community if they were to establish something for students in NYC.
And, oh yeah, at least NYC public schools aren't embroiled in terrorist activties.
But that might require waaaay too much elbow grease for not a lot of press and patently cool photo ops.
Cheech and Chong could have done it better. When I saw the bra-less feminazis, the guy leaving the demonstation citing special dietary needs and the wi-fi cut-off as a tactic, I realized we are in for a terrible future when they take over. How do they even plan out a paper much less a demonstration. They get a grade of F for this effort.
"I realized we are in for a terrible future when they take over"
There's morons like this in every generation.
The key: these aren't the ones who take over. Thank god.
I apparently don't know how to respond to the right comment... which is why I'm not the one who takes over, either.
/shows self out
did they help the underpaid cleaning staff rearrange the chairs and tables after they were done protesting?
Anything that causes grief to NYU president John Sexton, and his odious administration cannot be all bad.
NYU has ruined the Village, both East and West, turning it into their own private campus. It is all about $$$$, not education. It is all about evicting senior seniors and small mom&pop stores, destroying historic buildings like Poe's home or Eugene O'Neill's theater, busting unions, about pay-offs and lies going back at least fifty years.
It is about telling wannabe students that they are in the heart of the City, and then helping destroy the character of the very city that they tout as an attraction.
Those who lives anywhere near this behemoth corporation disguised an a university will agree.
Say what you want about the protesters, but anyone who fights against NYU is doing something good, unlike the vast majority of complacent sheep who attend that school.
You are absolutely right.
I grew up within the NYU vicinity and they have completely ruined the Village. I'd even go farther and say they cynically exploited the AIDS crisis to fill rent stabilized apartments with short-term tenants, their students, who turned leases over frequently, allowing the rents to rise much faster than they had previously, and whose parents would guarantee the rent, making them more desirable tenants than artists or families or neighborhood characters.
On the other hand, these kids themselves are part of the problem, and therefore unlikely to be part of the solution.
Which is why those students should sign a pact never to contribute anything to any NYU foundation or endowment after they graduate and insinuate their weak-ass crap into the upper echelons of whatever will be left of America. Don't give, kiddies, and tell Mom and Dad to tear up the check. Change doesn't come from "the barrel of a gun", it comes from an absence of funds.
Cue The Brooklyn Funk Essentials, "The Revolution Was Postponed"......
"Make NYU Affordable"?
See, this is where the kids failed. They should have agitated for a more realistic goal, like a worldwide communist revolution.
what movement? wasting everyones time by protesting and failing?
this is why i'm grumpy and hate everyone.
You people are way too hard on NYU. Look at all the grandeur they produced after they took over the area east of Laguardia place. The triple towers of shit and the Bobst Library and all the other buildings they took down to produce that cacophony of crap. Viva la revolucione!
The last thing they destroyed was that lovely church on the south side of the "NYU" park.
As a recent NYU grad - I want to say that most of us think these students were incredibly unorganized, uncool, and unnecessary.
You know what you're signing up for when you decide to go to NYU. It's expensive, a bureaucratic nightmare, and obsessed with its own growth and income.
If you can get over it, and skip out on the drugs and stupid ass protests like this one- you just might get something out of it like I did!
I think it all went wrong when the NYU boys, I mean boyishly looking girls took off their shirts and displayed their gross ass boobs, i mean lack of gross ass boobs to a mostly gay school. I think i also threw up in my mouth when i saw them
I'm a student at NYU and very embarrassed to be associated with these people.
I'm confused. I want to be knee jerk and support them (I'm serious.) but I can't figure out what "Make NYU Affordable" is supposed to mean. I think they need to work on their messaging a little. From a distance, all I can say is "uhh, you chose private school. It's private. It isn't supposed to be affordable it is supposed to be elite. Silly wabbit."
If you actually read the Post, it sounds like they weren't insane: "The failed mission was intended to force NYU to make more transparent its budget and endowment, including staff salaries and financial aid."
Laudable, if you ask me. More laudable than "make NYU affordable" which just sounds silly. And harder to fit on a sign. So here's hoping they at least learned something about campaigning (and building your case better before you resort to a lock down.) I think the idea that the students of a University have a right to examine the budget and payroll of that University is a case worth making. It is too bad they didn't do such a hot job of making it.
protest FAIL: http://www.campusprogress.org/opinions/3648/how-not-to-protest