The stories keeping popping out of UC Berzerkeley. This week a bunch of idiots took up perch on top of a university building to protest some innocuous school policy. The university response?
Negotiations.
The campus newspaper, Daily Californian has the "story".
http://www.dailycal.org/article/112223/activists_standing_atop_wheeler_hall_demand_change
Apparently, the ledge-loons won the day as the university has caved to at least some of their demands. The lesson learned by Berzerkeley's students? Climb to the top of a building and stand on the ledge.
That's Education!
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Kicking them out with no refund would probably be effective. Just a thought.
I was interested in the quotes from the protestors
"This has to continue because we have two demands that have not been met ... There's nothing we can't do."
And
"Finally (the administration) got their shit straight," he said. "They have seen our power."
They believe that they can end budge cuts and democratize the Board of Regents by sitting on a ledge?
They seem to be pretty full of themselves. I'm fairly certain that with education and attitudes like theirs there will be nothing they CAN do.
If they are looking for jobs, they are going to have to bring to the potential employer something, some skill, that the employers want. It looks to me that they will spend their lives railing against the MAN and wondering why they live such futile lives.
Thanks, Bezerkeley and accomplices everywhere, you are beneath contempt for taking our best prospects and ruining their lives and degrading our society.
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Thanks Miggie,
If I were an employer and I knew that a prospective employee had been involved in something like this, do you think I would hire him? No way. The last thing you need is a worker who will cause problems in the workplace and lead his fellow employees off the job.
That's life in the real world. These kids need to wise up before they get those diplomas and enter that world.
I tend to favor the response "Jump." Also closing the windows, leaving them stranded outside until they get very hungry and ask pretty please can we come in so we can go get something to eat is appealing.
Students have next to no power as students. There is something that needs to be traced back through our culture. Fifty or sixty years ago, there were some deeply immoral and illegal practices in our nation, very deeply embedded, enforce by many police departments and governors, that needed to be confronted.
Students played a role, but they were working with maids and ministers and business owners and lawyers and doctors, and most of them had held real jobs, part-time or full-time, sometimes at the same time as holding down a full time course load.
Somewhere along the line, the notion crept into our culture that ANYTHING I don't like, I can launch a protest and be righteously indignant and feel good about my "power." Criteria is lacking.
It goes along with the notion, prevalent among the culture-vultures of both "right" and "left" varieties, that "Whatever I want right now, I have a constitutional right to, and I'm going to find a lawyer who can come up with an argument to say so."
The ultimate of course was the man demonstrating outside a federal court house in support of John Gotti, who exclaimed "He has a constitutional right to be not guilty."
As Justice Scalia said on one of his better days, the constitution does not mean what we think it ought to mean, it means what it says.
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