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Playing 60's at NYU
The whole world ain't watching! The whole world ain't watching!Cops clashed early Friday with a band of renegade New York University student protestors and a crowd who came out to support their list of demands. About two dozen members of the Take Back NYU! Coalition have been holed up inside a campus cafeteria since Wednesday night. And despite threats of expulsion and arrest if they didn't leave the building by 1 a.m. Friday, they still hadn't budged. "We're trying to take back our school," one student told the Daily News. Sorry, kids, but you don't own the school... The group wants greater transparency in the university's budget, scholarships for students from Palestine and for surplus supplies to be donated to the Islamic university in Gaza, according to a list of talking points the group handed out to demonstrators. I'd love to see that list. I'll bet it'd bring back memories... They have surplus ammo at NYU to donate? As the 1 a.m. deadline drew near, tensions mounted between students and cops. "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. Time to go, children. Playtime's over. By 1:30 a.m., it was on. NYPD cops must be getting liberal. They gave them an extra half hour... "We were peacefully demonstrating our right of free speech, then the police just had to lay it down, lay hands on us," said an NYU sophomore who asked not to be identified. "That isn't right. That's when things got out of control." Time to go, hippies... Police officials said the problems began when students failed to obey reasonable commands. I say again, Time to go hippies. The 60's are over... "Batons started flying," the sophomore said. "At least a dozen people got injured. This is a clear case of police brutality." Heh heh heh. Granny and gramps probably never told them what it was like to take a nightstick upside the head. Probably just told them about Peace and Love and good weed... Officials couldn't immediately confirm whether anyone was injured. Let's hope so... A student identified by fellow protestors as Alex Deschuamps was carted from the scene in a police car after climbing a 'No Parking' sign. Charges against Deschuamps are pending. Death to facist "No Parking" signs! 'Carted' from the scene? That sounds painful .. and hopeful ... A list of the students' demands begins: "We, the students of NYU, declare an occupation of this space. This occupation is the culmination of a two year campaign by the Take Back NYU! Coalition, and of campaigns from years in whose footsteps we follow." Right arm! Power to the purple, man! That's "Right on and power to the people", Moonbeam. It is? Student support for the protestors and their cause was far from universal."It's ridiculous," said Mitchell Goulding, 18, who works for the school newspaper. "Everyone was with them if they were focusing on budgetary disclosure, but somehow Gaza got involved, and 20 other demands, and they lost people." Goulding didn't bite his tongue."The general consensus right now among the student body is that they are a bunch of idiots," he said. There may be hope yet... Gaza always gets thrown in, because the student Paleo symps, the ISM and the other leftie organizations always throw it in. It's part of their mantra and it's how they do 'coalition' building, by getting every wacko group on campus to come in with them. Posted by: tu3031 2009-02-20 |
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