Campus chaos: Social justice mobsters attack police, smash windows over tuition hikes; Update: “Who’s (sic) schools?”
When last we heard from entitlement-mongering college students protesting budget cuts at public universities, they were taking torches to the chancellor’s home at UC Berkeley.
As I’ve noted before, it’s not right-wing Republicans assaulting police officers, abusing government authority to try and drive out the Marines, waging nationwide war on recruiters, and terrorizing researchers in the name of animal rights. It’s left-wing nutballs who always get a pass from the NYTimes columnists and MSNBC loudmouths who’ve been blaming every violent outburst on the planet on the Tea Party movement.
Today, the social justice mobsters on campuses across the country held a nationwide tantrum over tuition hikes. This is how the Left teaches civil discourse to its intellectual progeny: “Gimme!” “Revolucion!” “Smash Patriarchy!”
At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, they assaulted cops:
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee officials said they had to use pepper spray Thursday to help break up a rally at the campus after some protesters became violent while trying to enter the building that contains the chancellor’s office.
Sixteen people were detained and 15 were arrested during the afternoon rally, university spokesman Tom Luljak said. The rally coincided with rallies at colleges nationwide, criticizing the rising cost of higher education.
Luljak said university police sprayed pepper spray in the air and called the Milwaukee Police Department for help after some protesters attempted to storm Chapman Hall, the building that houses Chancellor Carlos Santiago’s office. Protesters were punching and kicking officers while some also threw snowballs and ice at the officers, Luljak said.
Students who helped organize the protest said in a statement that officers punched them and described the rally as a peaceful protest of a repressive school administration. No snowballs or punches were thrown at officers, the organizers said.
More than 125 students rallied at UWM’s student union at noon and later marched to the chancellor’s office, according to several accounts.
Luljak said a representative of the protesters was invited into Chapman Hall and asked to deliver any demands from the protesters. The student representative later yelled at the crowd, telling everyone to try to enter, Luljak said. That’s when police intervened.
Four officers were knocked to the ground, Luljak said. UWM’s police chief asked Milwaukee police for help.
More on the UWM arrests here.
Similar stories out of California:
In Northern California, rowdy protesters blocked major gates at two universities and smashed the windows of a car.
Protesters at the University of California, Santa Cruz surrounded the car while its uninjured driver was inside. Earlier, demonstrators blocked campus gates.
University provost David Kliger said there were reports of protesters carrying clubs and knives, but Santa Cruz police Capt. Steve Clark could not confirm those reports. No arrests had been made.
An advisory posted on the school Web site urged people to avoid the campus because of safety concerns.
Longtime readers of this blog are very familiar with the lying, violent leftist tendencies at UC Santa Cruz.
ProtestShooter documented the grievance zoo at Berkeley. Beyond parody indeed:
The bursting of the higher ed bubble is way overdue.
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Like I said: Beyond parody (botched University of Washington protest sign via Instapundit)!
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On March 5th, 2010 at 11:14 am, greysheepdog said:
Those idiots should listen to the speech Glenn Beck gave at CPAC. College Education wasn’t free for him, and he had to quit after only one semester because he couldn’t afford it.
What did he do? Did he protest and agitate? Did he claim he was “repressed”?
No. He got books from the Library and stayed up until 2 and 3 A.M. reading to EDUCATE HIMSELF FOR FREE.
Today he is a multi-millionaire.
The idiots screaming “repression” and “Smash Patriarchy” will stay broke their entire lives unless they CHANGE THEMSELVES.
Stupid me! I paid for my own college! And I finished in less than 4 years while working 15 to 20 hours a week!
Somebody forgot to tell me I was ENTITLED TO YOUR MONEY!!! I’m calling Obama, NOW!
I hope I qualify for a refund…
Here’s an idea. Cut the tenured staff’s salary 25%. The rise in the cost of education is far above the inflation rate.
I went one semester away to school and the remainder locally. Going away to school is like a trip to Wonderland, it is it’s own world. Welcome to reality.
Okay, let’s simplify this thing and cut out the government. Everybody send me $50 a month for the next, uh, 100 years and we’ll call that college tuition thing even.
I want to make sure everyone knows I hold hard feelings because you didn’t pay for my college 25 years ago.
Oh, and those of you who weren’t born 25 years ago, only have to send $49 a month…
The way to cure this pseudoanarchism: tack on the bill for all the damage, police overtime and class stoppage to their tuition bills.
There is no better time to learn that one has to take responsibility for one’s actions.
You mean the
publicsocialist library? Funded by tax dollars? I guess he never bothered to look up the definition of “irony.” If anything, his example underscores the societal value of making information and education available to anyone who seeks it.The signs are hilarious, however the violence is extremely unfortunate and counter-productive, and worse yet, entirely predictable. These are tough times, especially here in California, and everyone needs to own up their fair share of reality. Even after tuition hikes, public education is still far cheaper than any private school.
Agreed.
What are these morons going to do with their liberal arts degrees anyway? There are no jobs. It is real irony that the ones who have destroyed the system are the ones people like these continue to vote for. Colleges will continue to raise their fees as long as government keeps their hands in the pot. When student loans are (maybe were) easy to get there is no incentive to keep costs down, institutions of higher learning will keep milking the system. Students today don’t sacrifice at all for their education and have no idea what it is like to sacrifice.
On March 5th, 2010 at 2:47 pm, huggybear said:
I guess you’re unaware of the history of libraries in this country, and how over 1,500 of them were built not with tax dollars but rather with money donated by Scottish-American CAPITALIST and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
Oh, the “irony” of assuming that libraries only come from socialism.
Let’s not forget University libraries either. Harvard is named after the Marxis, er Socialist, I mean Progressive, no, um Christian Minister who donated his books to start their first library. Years later when most of it burned, his relative Hollis gave them books to rebuild as did other private donors.
AlohaGuy,
Great point. Veritas (Truth).
Most of America’s “elite” universities were started as Christian colleges/universities.
The administrations of these universities were taken over in the mid 20th century by the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy (what Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov accurately called “the world Communist conspiracy”).
See: Demoralization in America’s Universities
If you happen to be a “person of color” you are not only entitled to a refund, you are a victim.