If history repeats itself first as tragedy and then as farce, NYU is looking like a clown college right now.
A group that calls itself Students for Radical Change has barricaded itself in the third cafeteria of the campus student center in a lame attempt to update the far-left’s “glory days” of 1968 campus occupations. Even the campus Democrats have disavowed their overheated hysteria, which is perfectly illustrated in their list of demands, passed out on a Xeroxed pamphlet and viewable here.
This is a classic text of cluelessness and cultural myopia. From the first “demands” – essentially asking for amnesty and payment for the employees they have displaced – to the larger geopolitical aims (excess supplies sent to the University of Gaza, a “reassessment of the recently lifted ban on Coca-Cola products”) – this is an impotent entitlement mentality run amuck.
It’s a reminder of why the PC-excesses of the campus left has always been the unwitting ally and best recruiter for campus conservatives.
2 responses so far
1 fact based // Feb 21, 2009 at 7:14 am
yes this is evidence that a university with top 20 law business and medical schools is a “clown college” btw it’s a university not a college there is a different”. The right wing obsession on condemning universities for the isolated actions of small groups of students or individual professors is inane. If it was a reflection of the student body then the career office wouldnt find masses of students at harvard yale columbia and nyu sleeping out in front of the career office to sign up for jobs at goldman sachs and other high paying “establishment” corporate employers. But somehow bloggers talk radio rushites and the foxies never mention that…..it’s boring I guess.
2 JJWFromME // Feb 23, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Taking the actions of late adolescents somewhere on some college campus, and using it to manufacture conservative outrage strikes me as a species of nutpicking: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nutpicking
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