Yesterday, the little rascals at UC-Irvine held a "walkout" in protest of UC budget cuts and tuition hikes. Here are some of the YouTube "highlights", in case you are interested.
These spoiled kids should take their complaints to the State Capitol in Sacramento, which is the real source of all the budget problems plaguing our universities. The fact is that the money is no longer there.
I still maintain that the overwhelming majority of students at UCI have no time for this whining, self-pitying nonsense. The kids who stayed in their classrooms will go on to be those who keep our country working in the decades ahead. As for those you see in the videos, they will be the future faculty of our universities. They won't be qualified to do anything else.
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Considering that most of these little bastards don't even pay for their schooling (dear Mommy and Daddy pay the bill), they should just shut up and pretend to study (their folks just might find out what they are paying for and teach them a lesson in reality by cutting off all funds.).
Of course the Chancellors of all the U of C schools could do a very drastic measure: Eliminate all sports programs and BS Courses like Black Studies, Women Studies, etc..... This would save millions of dollars a year.
Why Findalis!! What a radical idea!
Well, you can't expect all protesters to be as articulate and insightful as the Tea Party people.
No Lance, you sure can't.
Couldn't have said it better, Gary. Go ask one of these morons who they voted for in the last election...who their parents voted for. Dimes to dollars, they voted for the mindless liberals in Sacramento today. These students are so ignorant that they do no, can not, see the relationship between who they themselves voted into office, and why their fees are going up.
Spoiled disgusting brats. If you've got that much free time, go get a job at In n Out and make yourself useful.
....god knows Gary, we'll be working with these very bastions of intelligence soon....
Linnea,
Amazing how they don't even know by whom and why the spigot has been turned off. All they know is that goodies are not going to follow in their laps any more.
Where some of them chanting, "No Juistice, No Peace?"
What a joke.
It is fine to protest but I hope they had something they had to say.
Did they offer a proposal to cut other programs so their college education will be paid for? Did they offer any solutions or did they just whine?
Dear Gary,
I have followed the student protests with interest. On the one hand, I can sympathize with students because the fee increases are very high.
I subsidized much of my education while at UCI by working very long hours and through merit scholarships. I am cognizant of the fact that education is expensive.
However, my friends at UCI have expressed that these "walk-outs" have gotten out of hand. I have heard that the protesters walked into the library to shout their slogans, blocked streets, and interrupted classes. They have no right to infringe upon the rights of others. I also understand that there was some vandalism to a car. Some of the most notable photographs of the protesters' signs that I saw on a friend's Facebook account included: "If I wanted to go to a private school I'd have be born into a rich family" and "F*ck Profit" (among other profane ones and those that seemed off topic altogether).
Some of these signs are rather disparaging, actually. Plenty of students attend private universities, just like public ones, based on their own merits. Moreover, don't most students who seek higher education do so with the intention of making a "profit" in their career at some point in the future?
With best regards,
Reut
Reut,
You are correct. Why these kids think this is the way to protest is just immaturity as far as I am concerned. Yes education is expensive and I expect for most of these kids, the parents are footing the bill. I finished college on the GI Bill after I got out of the Army, but that was a different era.
The sad fact is that the money is not there. The politicians and unions in Sacramento have pissed it all away. That is where they should take their protests.
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