Featured, On Campus - Wednesday, February 18, 2009 23:15 - 48 Comments
Duncan Meisel of TBNYU Explains the Kimmel Occupation
Gallatin senior and TBNYU/SCRC member Duncan Meisel isn’t participating in the Kimmel barricade himself, but he is telling us why they’re doing it. Check out his unedited reasoning below. See any holes? Comment away.
At 10 pm Wednesday night, members of Take Back NYU! declared that parts of the Kimmel Center will be occupied indefinitely until NYU complies with a series of demands to make our school more democratic, accountable and socially just.
In a world coming apart at the seams, the biggest threat to our collective wellbeing is crippling passivity – a willingness to do nothing in the face of the massive economic, ecological and social problems facing our world.
NYU has yet to address these problems with the radical steps required. For instance, the most visible response of the university to the current recent economic disaster is a series of faux-comforting, rambling emails from our adorable President, that attempt to distract and calm students regarding the financial health of our school. Regarding questions of human rights and the environment, NYU’s response has been piecemeal and shortsighted. Continue…
Featured, On Campus, On-Campus Developing - Wednesday, February 18, 2009 21:15 - 131 Comments
Exclusive: NYU Students Barricade Doors, Occupy Kimmel
9:18 PM – I’m sitting on the 3rd floor of Kimmel watching as a ton of students roll in for Take Back NYU’s 2nd Study Breakdown. Except it seems that there won’t be any dancing and somebody just asked me if I needed a number for legal counsel if I get thrown in jail. Looks like this might be a bit more than a dance party.
Can you say New School sit-in round 2?
I will be here all night live-blogging and posting photos and video of the happenings.
Got any tips/news for me? Send me an email at charlie@wnyu.org. Blog after the jump.
On Campus - Wednesday, February 18, 2009 20:18 - 0 Comments
TBNYU’s Twitter Feed About To Get Interesting
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On Campus - Wednesday, February 11, 2009 9:42 - 21 Comments
Take Back NYU! Burns Its Bridges
I normally stay away from writing on university-specific topics because it’s not my normal beat (National issues), but I felt the need to respond to what was said and stated in Dean Stattman’s Take Back NYU! piece.
The main issue I found with those interviewed by Dean was an obvious unwillingness to see what kind of damage TBNYU! has done to intra-university dialogue on the campus. The organization’s goals are noble and respectable, but the actions of its members have done nothing to open up dialogue on the campus. Continue…
On Campus - Tuesday, February 10, 2009 17:57 - 15 Comments
You’ve Got to Give Before You Can Take
On a quiet Wednesday afternoon last semester, an angry mob tore through NYU’s campus, waving colorful signs and chanting in unison beneath plexiglas sheets. The group that organized this was Take Back NYU! (exclamation point included), a student organization known for various demonstrations and acts of vandalism under the banner of transparency and accountability. However, ironic as it may be, TBNYU! is becoming the organization that students love to hate.
