Comments on: Letters in Solidarity, Organizations http://takebacknyu.com/2009/02/21/letters-in-solidarity-ii/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:26:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: STEVE http://takebacknyu.com/2009/02/21/letters-in-solidarity-ii/#comment-2457 STEVE Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:02:09 +0000 http://takebacknyu.com/?p=670#comment-2457 Please keep it peaceful. I was a student and graduate of NYU, 1979, I'm seating in Thailand, (Chiang Mai) reading this information . The responsibility of being able to live in an open free society and to be able to debate is extremely important. Remember with out the ability to have free will, we have no society and life and the fiduciary responsibility will cease to co-exist in a democracy. It is the responsibility of the elders to encourage thought and to deal in truth,transparency,and that they are not always right. Fresh idea's are always kinder and better develop, by one's who will lead us tomorrow. I suggest that if the school and its Academia, don't hear you then use a peaceful protest of fasting to get your point across. MLK would be proud. Let democracy rule and idiots fall, Its about freedom and quality of life.. SM From Thailand Please keep it peaceful. I was a student and graduate of NYU, 1979, I’m seating in Thailand, (Chiang Mai) reading this information . The responsibility of being able to live in an open free society and to be able to debate is extremely important. Remember with out the ability to have free will, we have no society and life and the fiduciary responsibility will cease to co-exist in a democracy. It is the responsibility of the elders to encourage thought and to deal in truth,transparency,and that they are not always right. Fresh idea’s are always kinder and better develop, by one’s who will lead us tomorrow.
I suggest that if the school and its Academia, don’t hear you then use a peaceful protest of fasting to get your point across.
MLK would be proud.

Let democracy rule and idiots fall, Its about freedom and quality of life..
SM From Thailand

]]> By: TTTAAA http://takebacknyu.com/2009/02/21/letters-in-solidarity-ii/#comment-2139 TTTAAA Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:22:26 +0000 http://takebacknyu.com/?p=670#comment-2139 I have to admit, I stopped reading after some New School student waxed masturbatory on "Uncompromising, our power is growing. What has started as a singular strike against the structure of NYU’s form of domination will become a strike against the general logic of domination." I love the practical things you folks are calling for. I love the egalitarian ideals you all have tried to stand for. However, the rhetoric turns off even people like me. I don't know that this movement should be about your growing "power." Our very justified fear is that movements like these turn away from well-focused practically-minded actions to encourage NYU's administration to shift policy, towards unbounded exercises in ego. Let's all take a big breath and remember that the NYU administration is not Franco, the Nazis, the Bush Administration, or Sodexo. NYU's leadership has its problems, clearly. On the whole, however, NYU exerts a positive influence in the world. It is a community that we help make up. It is one of the greenest institutions in New York. It encourages and allows our collective project of engaged academic work. We all want a more transparent, a more human, a more community-sensitive, and more student-focused NYU, but we will best achieve that through positive engagement with the administration and our collective community. Turning them into straw-men to rail against does little except for allowing the most self-involved and unhinged members of the movement to set themselves up as heros against The Man. The New School's "occupation" has been a feckless exercise in revolutionary writing. This befits New School's history. Let's not emulate the New School. NYU has strong roots educating New York's working class in practical skills, bettering their lives. Our movement should follow that tradition. We should promote clear aims, keep our heads down, our spirits up, and our rhetoric infused with some practical value. We are not masculinist revolutionary heroes. We are students making the world a better place. I have to admit, I stopped reading after some New School student waxed masturbatory on “Uncompromising, our power is growing. What has started as a singular strike against the structure of NYU’s form of domination will become a strike against the general logic of domination.”

I love the practical things you folks are calling for. I love the egalitarian ideals you all have tried to stand for. However, the rhetoric turns off even people like me. I don’t know that this movement should be about your growing “power.”

Our very justified fear is that movements like these turn away from well-focused practically-minded actions to encourage NYU’s administration to shift policy, towards unbounded exercises in ego.

Let’s all take a big breath and remember that the NYU administration is not Franco, the Nazis, the Bush Administration, or Sodexo. NYU’s leadership has its problems, clearly. On the whole, however, NYU exerts a positive influence in the world. It is a community that we help make up. It is one of the greenest institutions in New York. It encourages and allows our collective project of engaged academic work.

We all want a more transparent, a more human, a more community-sensitive, and more student-focused NYU, but we will best achieve that through positive engagement with the administration and our collective community. Turning them into straw-men to rail against does little except for allowing the most self-involved and unhinged members of the movement to set themselves up as heros against The Man.

The New School’s “occupation” has been a feckless exercise in revolutionary writing. This befits New School’s history. Let’s not emulate the New School.

NYU has strong roots educating New York’s working class in practical skills, bettering their lives. Our movement should follow that tradition. We should promote clear aims, keep our heads down, our spirits up, and our rhetoric infused with some practical value. We are not masculinist revolutionary heroes. We are students making the world a better place.

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