The NYU occupation has come to an end after the university 'shut down the building' following their 1.00am Friday morning deadline for students to leave.
First the internet access was switched off and then all electricity except the lights. Yesterday's support demonstration ended with students surging past security and police to gain entry to the Kemmel building cafeteria occupation.
Today there was another large support rally at which the police used pepper spray to keep people away from the building entrance. More cops arrived and brought the situation under control, as they say. The locked out students failed to gain entry.
The occupation attracted national and international support news coverage and garnered equally widespread support. Its example, and the New School University and University of Rochester occupations before it, has surely lit a spark that university administrations across the US will be having sleepless nights over.
All those involved in the occupation are to be suspended and five occupiers who were tricked into meeting admin will be expelled. Somehow I don't tihnk we've heard the last from NYU...Defend the victimised students!
Protest to the university:
John Beckman, NYU Spokesman
(212) 998-6848
jhb5@nyu.edu
Office of the Provost
Tel: (212) 998-2415
Fax: (212) 995-3190
Email: provost@nyu.edu
Office of the Vice President
evp@nyu.edu
212-998-4090
Contact NYU Housing to complain about student evictions:
Phone: 212-998-4600
email: housing@nyu.edu
video here from NY1
From the New York Times
Saher Almaita, 22, a senior philosophy major at William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J., said curiosity and sympathy led him to join the protest.
“We’re so alienated from each other that the opportunity to do something together is a rush,” he said, then added with a smile, “I want to experience humanity to its fullest.”
Campus opinion during the day was divided; some denounced the occupation as disruptive and others were more encouraging. “I don’t support all of what they’re doing,” said Adrian Untermyer, 19, a freshman, “but I support the fact that they’re asserting themselves.
Take Back NYU! is a coalition of nearly two dozen groups and hundreds of students at New York University demanding budget disclosure, endowment disclosure, and student representation on the Board of Trustees.
come on west coast where are you?
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