Saturday, February 21, 2009

Take Back NYU.

Seriously, Take Back NYU? After your stunts and your dance parties, and your graffiti on the New York sidewalks, now you go and inconvenience the rest of NYU and make us look bad. I should acknowledge the fact that some of their demands were legitimate, but for the most part, all I can truly say about the participants in the occupation is that they are a bunch of whining brats. Yes, NYU is expensive, yes, we don't have budget transparency. If you want that, go to a state school. There are cheaper alternatives. You didn't need to come here. John Sexton himself has said he would be understanding to students who had to leave to go to a state school and would help them transfer back into NYU once their financial situations had improved.

The economy is hurting everyone. But you have a choice. Go to a different school and quit your bitching, or stay here. I know I shouldn't be paying for it either, and I complain about cost as well, but I wouldn't ever dare inconvenience my peers, the NYU staff, or the city as a whole, for my complaints. Not only that, you want tuition to go down - for your stunt NYU had to have more guards on call that day that most other days. Kimmel couldn't sell food, and therefore no profits were made. You singlehandedly contributed to the reasons why we have high tuition. Cheers.

For the rest of the world, don't judge the actions of a small group of students to be the actions of the entire student body. Most of us were in class.

And with that:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/students-end-nyu-building-takeover/

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I am a student at NYU, with a major in European Studies and a minor in French. New York is my home and my passion; I am useless without it.

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