11/10 NYU Town Hall: A good laugh
Nov 11th, 2008 by Take Back NYU!
President John Sexton, mouthpiece for the board of trustees, dodged student questions yet again at NYU’s 
farce of a democratic meeting last night.
One question was: NYU has taken many efforts to become sustainable. Why don’t they continue those efforts to become sustainable by doing things like voting on proxies and passing shareholder resolutions for companies we invest in?
Question: Dodged. The ethics and politics argument is pretty funny. By stating that actively giving our money to some company to use to perform actions in the world is not political is absurd. Much more than verbal support, our money actually funds these occurrences, like private prisons, wars overseas and perhaps genocide. Without money, these things do not occur. Now tell us that is neither about politics or ethics…
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In this section, John Sexton censors a student wishing to bring the townhall to people who people who couldn’t make it on 11/10.
Other quotes:
Student: “Is NYU a democratic institution?”
John Sexton: “No”
In response to our demands (budget disclosure, endowment disclosure, and a student on the board of trustees)
John Sexton: No.
In the Washington Square News, John Sexton was quoted as saying, “It’s good that people come with intense feelings,” he said. “It would be better if people came with intense feelings and open minds.”
“Incarceration of the Black Man is New Slavery”
—Marian Wright Edelman (Speaking at Morehouse)
http://www.morehouse.edu/news/archives/001957.html
My name is William Edward Thomas and I am the National Community Outreach Facilitator for the National Public Service Council To Abolish Private Prisons.
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