Best liveblog line of the day:
"12:45 - Straight up ridick. There is a girl
topless outside standing by the barricade. Lots of people. No
press conference yet."
That comes directly from the astute, funny, and journalistically
intrepid Charlie Eisenhood. He's been embedded with the social
activists at NYU who barricaded themselves in an NYU cafeteria
with a list of demands and a mean calisthenics regimen. (Part one
here, part two
here.) There's even a link with topless coeds baring it all
for the cause, holding signs saying "Exposure Til Disclosure."
Dedication, I tell you.
Colin Moynihan has also been
blogging the experience, for the slightly more starched shirt
New York Times.
The extent to which those present are concerned with food makes
me think this is the Scooby Doo of all campus protests. The
concerns the students bring up are classic -- tuition is too
high, they want vegan food, Palestinians are being repressed in
Gaza -- but I'm most interested in their demand for more
transparency in NYU administration. Frankly, I don't care what
your political view -- I support the protest on the basis of
having the school be more accountable to the people who give it
money.
Besides. It's NYU. How likely is it that the school would
directly support to the Islamic University in Gaza, as per
student demands?
UPDATE: A comprehensive look of the list of demands offered by
level-headed class of '08 bloggers
here. This sort of reminds me of the People's Front of Judea
skit in The Life of Brian.
