protest FAIL: http://www.campusprogress.org/opinions/3648/how-not-to-protest

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.

I'm a student at NYU and very embarrassed to be associated with these people.

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

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!

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.

what movement? wasting everyones time by protesting and failing?

this is why i'm grumpy and hate everyone.

"Make NYU Affordable"?

See, this is where the kids failed. They should have agitated for a more realistic goal, like a worldwide communist revolution.

Cue The Brooklyn Funk Essentials, "The Revolution Was Postponed"......

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.

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.

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.

did they help the underpaid cleaning staff rearrange the chairs and tables after they were done protesting?

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 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

"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.

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.

If these kids don't like NYU, why don't they just transfer?

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.

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.