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Party’s Over: 18 NYU Students Suspended Over Protest

February 21, 2009 - 7:00 pm By Andrew - Hunter College

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Remember that protest at NYU? Well, it turns out that you can’t do that and get away with it. After over 40 hours of protest, during which students barricaded themselves into one of the school’s cafeterias, 18 students have been suspended from the school, pending disciplinary review. The students were fighting for, among other things, transparency in the school’s budget and more affordable tuition and attendance costs. Apparently, that didn’t work.

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6 Comments		Posted in College
		Tags: expelled, nyu, protest, take back nyu
		Tags: expelled, nyu, protest, take back nyu

carol says:

February 23, 2009 at 10:36 am

that’s horrible! a university should be a place for debate and freedom of opinion, it’s quite an absurd suspend them for fighting for a more affordable tuition. At least in my country the best universities are free
joan says:

February 23, 2009 at 2:41 pm

and which country is that? wouldn’t mind getting some free tuition
Jack says:

February 23, 2009 at 11:40 pm

Kudos to them for speaking their minds as they freely can–and rightfully so–NYU tuition is off the wall, crazy compared to many colleges, and their policy is basically, “oh, we’re doing you such a favor by letting you attend our college. If you don’t have the money, then oh well.” They don’t give a damn about providing the needed financial assistance to students who can’t afford it.
wilsonrofishing says:

February 24, 2009 at 10:56 pm

Take Back NYU rocks!

I love those guys! A team of the world’s best comedic screenwriters could not have scripted their pathetic last stand to play out any funnier. Corporate Water???? That’s the most patently bourgeois thing I’ve heard in a long time. Water is bad, Apple is good? Take Back NYU! is going to ruin the Apple brand altogether; Apple is marketed for slackers, NOT hippies.

And why did Take Back! narrow their goals when they were doing so well and capturing the imagination of the worldwide public? Why did they not fight to achieve protection for the Cape Fear River shiner, one of the most endangered fishes in North America? Or fight to replace the hurtful “MILF” genre of adult film with the less judgemental “experienced women” title?

If only they had not been so pragmatic, this really could have been a changed world. . .

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