A few months ago, protesters disrupted the University of Missouri. Caving into their demands, the university lost its president and enrollment dipped. Students attempted something similar at (The™) Ohio State University last week, listing demands such as complete access to the university’s budget and that OSU divest itself from investments in Hewlett Packard because, the protesters claimed, the company was involved in human rights abuses. To call attention to these demands, 80 to 150 students occupied the main administration building.
This is when Ohio State Vice President Jay Kasey paid them a visit.
In a video of the exchange, Kasey said the OSU president would not negotiate with the students. “If you refuse to leave,” Kasey warned, “then you will be charged with a student code of conduct violation. … If you are here at 5:00 a.m. we will clear the building and you will be arrested. We will give you the opportunity to go to jail for your beliefs.”
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5 comments:
Welcome to the real world, kids, where you can say and do anything you like, but where there are consequences.
The building is closed between the hours of x and y. If you are in the building between those hours, you are trespassing and will be asked to leave. If you fail to leave, you will be arrested for trespassing. Pretty simple.
Bravo Vice President Kasey. We need more like you at our Universities! Those kids were spoiled whining brats!
Just like any other time, if you feel blood rushing to your head and you start doing things you normally wouldn't do, you've probably lost all personal control and make yourselves easy targets for mob rulers, the people you wouldn't normally follow.
Exactly as the school should have reacted. This giving in to demands of everybody is BS. I don't like _______, and I demand that thing change and if they don't we are going to disrupt life for everybody.
Welcome to the real world. It sucks. Get over it.
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