NYU Example Should Be Followed at the Five Claremont Colleges

In case you haven't heard, NYU laid down the law against student protestors who demanded that the endowment be disclosed, among other ridiculous things. Here's the raw video if you want to watch the students get taken out of the place. 

The New York Daily News, by way of PhiBetaCons, has more.

NYU did not "bend" to student demands, and the malcontents were banned from all NYU buildings until their expulsion hearings, Brown said.

The end became evident at 10 a.m. when four student negotiators went up to the sixth floor of the building to talk with NYU officials — and were ambushed by campus cops.

After that, cops tore down the barricades barring the entrance to the third-floor cafeteria and started evicting the Take Back NYU! Coalition protesters.

When they took over the cafeteria, the students' stated cause was a demand for greater transparency in the NYU budget.

Then came talking points in which the protestors demanded scholarships for Palestinian students — and supplies for the Islamic University of Gaza."

One of the lines from the video is that "other schools haven't acted that way." The filmmaker is right, unfortunately. You might remember the misbehavior that Pitzer students visited upon our campus when we brought Karl Rove to speak. After damaging school property, no students were punished. 

Might this mark the beginning of more serious policies at the campuses? Let's hope so.