Comments on: Study Breakdown Takes Back Bobst!

By: hopeful

hopeful — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:25:52 +0000

I think you are very self-absorbed if you think your 25-40 mins of dance party was not distracting to others. Just because a handful of you needed/wanted a break doesn’t mean you had to impose it on others. Furthermore, because you’re so unapologetic does make your actions immature.
Your words become meaningless when your actions are contradictory.
Please next time do not generalize your own thoughts/feelings to the whole of NYU. Your mission requires you to think about the well being of others yet this dance party suggests otherwise.

By: Sir Miles

Sir Miles — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:28:26 +0000

You privileged little twirps should be taught your place.

By: emily

emily — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:45:13 +0000

i would like to note that there is not a person in any of these photos who is not COMPLETELY FUCKING ADORABLE. we are some cuties when we are radically reclaiming student space, y’all. and also generally.

By: Jordan Meisner

Jordan Meisner — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:49:03 +0000

Will, I don’t even see how it was that distracting. The dance party was in the lobby of Bobst. Generally, people study on the lower levels and floors above the ground floor. Noise contagion was probably fairly limited. Anyone studying in the lobby is probably used to some noise anyway. Unless you have a severe case of ADD and forgot to take your meds that day, all the dance party should have caused you to do is peer over the edge through the glass and say, “Huh. Look at that. Cool.”

Also, this study breakdown was an inspiring display of some sort of campus identity, something you hardly ever see at NYU. Are you really going to look back at your experience at this university that so sorely lacks character and say, “BAH HUMBUG, I wish less interesting, spontaneous things happened while I was there!”

By: Maria

Maria — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:45:38 +0000

Absofreakinglutely. Anytime. <3

By: Claire

Claire — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:31:31 +0000

Uh oh, I’m starting to feel some cranky stress time coming… can I have cookies and a massage, too, Maria?

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:18:14 +0000

I actually agree with you Will. I was there at the dance party, and what you said was correct: we actually were “pretending to be real people”. Pretending, because we (as you astutely observed) are not people–we are aliens. Would you like to come to the dance party on our mothership tonight?

By: beet

beet — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:56:13 +0000

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/video/video.php?v=657960160409 >> check it out!

By: Ericka

Ericka — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:27:39 +0000

Actually, political slogans were said. We chanted “Take Back NYU”. Flyers were also passed out.

And I think you’re being a bit dramatic. “Hurt the students”?. It 25 minutes a students dancing, taking a break (key word) from their finals and having some final. Taking a space where people have committed suicide, where people have had breakdowns because of crazy and in many ways unnceccessary pressure to be “good students” and making that space a place of joy, fun and empowerment, if only for 25 minutes. Everyone who participated felt great and I’m sure they are all doing great on their finals. Too bad you didn’t join in.

Also, I take great offense to your comment: “You are immature, ignorant brats whose only interest in civil rights and equality comes after you’ve taken all the benefits that living an upper-class lifestyle has to offer”.

Actually, I am interested in Taking Back NYU because as a black person from a low-income community I am disgusted by how NYU supports gentrification. I am disgusted by how NYU takes advantages of its working class workers and workers of color (have you notice the NYU bus drivers aren’t too happy lately). I am disgusted by how NYU can’t find more money for financial aid but they can find money for move the fountain a few inches and find money to buy more buildings (that they often don’t need) and find money to pay John Sexton 1.3 million. I am disgusted by how NYU does business with companies that are complicit in genocide and war profiteering. As a women, I am worried about pay equality. I someone who hates gender binaries, I am concerned about the men and women’s bathrooms at NYU.

I want NYU to change so that it can be better for everyone, it’s students (including you) and for the larger community.

I’m not ignorant and I’m not immature. I suggest you research about NYU, its policies and its practices. I hope you’ll be disgusted as well. I hope you’ll care less about 25 minutes of studying and more about people enjoying themselves, people living without unnneccessary regulations, people having fair wages, people just living. You should re-evaluate your priorities. The kids who were dancing have finals too. But we also have fun, we also have concerns, we also have guts to challenge this institution.

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:37:58 +0000

Dear friend,

I’m sorry you were so upset by the Study Breakdown. It sounds like you are super stressed, and getting a little cranky. Just remember, finals will be over soon. I would be happy to give you a free massage or some cookies if it would help you relax.

As far as political messaging goes, taking back Bobst WAS our message. This is our school. We fund it, we give it life, and we have the power to take it back. Our “agenda,” as this website makes pretty clear, is transparency and democracy at NYU. We the students ARE the university, and we should have a say in how it operates.

Hope you feel better, and good luck with finals. I would suggest a warm bath and a nice cup of tea.

Peace,
Maria