WHOSE SCHOOL? IT’S OUR FUCKING SCHOOL!!!
Feb 20th, 2009 by Take Back NYU!
AT LEAST 20 NYU STUDENTS JUST BUM-RUSHED THE GUARDS ON THE 3RD FLOOR, JUMPED OVER THE BARRICADES, AND JOINED US INSIDE!!!
WANT IN? WE’LL GET YOU IN. THIS IS OUR SPACE.
At 1pm, 20 more NYU students barreled past security guards and barricades to join the ongoing occupation of the Kimmel Center for University Life. These students met up with their comrades who have held parts of the building since about 10 pm last night. The second wave of students were met with resistance by NYU security guards who attempted to use physical force to stop students from taking the university that was, is and will be theirs.
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The guards are really great guys just doing their jobs. In the sprit of your non-violence to people clause, try to remember that they’re not the enemy here.
Grad student in Pittsburgh, PA here. Sounds worthwhile–but it’s the 19th down here. Someone move the International Date Line?
Keep up the good work.
Although your Statement on Non-Violence professes that you will not accept discrimination on the basis of sexuality, you use a term like “bum-rushed” in your blog posts. Perhaps you should tone down the macho attitude a little.
I completely support the NYU students who are trying to wake up the Sexton administration to its excesses and disconnect from its community.
However, given recent university announcements that their will be no staff raises this year, with other salary & staff cuts on the table, and threats to cut student services, all in the cause of its Year-2031 expansion plan, the prospect for any success by NYU’s dissident students would appear dismal. In the past, NYU has demonstrated that it does not yield to student demands.
NYU’s transformation into a ‘Global Networked University’ may some day be a case study in excessive ambition, in wild prestige spending, and for its arrogant, unsound ‘mergers & acquisition’ mentality.
The impact of the university’s building and expansion program has all but converted the district from 6th avenue,in the west village, to 3rd avenue, in the east village, into NYU’s campus, without regard for impact of its demolition and expansion practices on area history and demographics. This includes Washington Square Park, which has been reconfigured to pacify social gatherings in the park, and to level areas around the fountain to provide more terrain for NYU events such as graduation.
This week in a NYU times article about Bard College’s plans to partner with a Palestinian College, its President criticized projects like NYU’s campus in Abu Dhabi:
“For us, this is what the internationalization of American higher education should be about,” Mr. Botstein said by telephone, adding that he was glad not to be following the example of larger universities building campuses in rich Persian Gulf emirates, a development that he said was “like investing in Monte Carlo or Liechtenstein to develop Europe.”