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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Let ‘em burn down Berkley and the rest.
They will then be mugged by reality.
The Great Entitlement Society
Hopefully the cops will beat these kids like drums at a Taiko festival.
What business person in their right mind would hire freaks like this?
University of Wisconsin Madison contains a large number of radical progressives who think violence is great theater. They don’t give a damn about anyone’s right to an education, particularly the poor who have struggled and worked just to get a chance. It is more fun to have the issue to yell about than to plan a fund raising campaign to get private donations. These are a bunch of coddled babies whose parents never grew up.
As far as California is concerned, the State is bankrupt. It has been issuing IOUs rather than paying its bills. It has driven its important businesses and wealth creators to Texas and other Southwest States who actively advertise a lower cost of doing business. The students somehow are so uneducated as to be unable to connect costs to benefits. No wonder, basics lessons in economics are missing in the general education arena.
This protest brought to you by
Communist Agitators“Community Organizers”…Some of them may have intentions of becomming President one day…
I posted this just yesterday on another topic, but as it’s appropriate…
I want it now!
I miss the good ole days, when Governor Ronald Reagan had Chief of Staff Ed Meese call out the National Guard on the Berkeley riots.
From Wiki:
“Meese’s role in quelling the riots at UC Berkeley have been identified by critics and supporters as an example of a conservative law-enforcement philosophy at work.”
Zorro: You are absolutely right about hiring people like this. They would become a cancer in any organization. The problem is in being able to identify them. Their arrest records might give one a clue. A clever job interview might reveal some things as well.
These are the people that are going to be incessant complainers even if successful. By the way, would you want to marry such people. I’ll bet the divorce rate is through the roof.
I notice that on the “Smash Patriarchy” poster the thumb on the fist is tucked under the fingers. Go ahead and hit something that way, punk. Then try to endorse your welfare check with a sprained thumb.
I am old enough to remember Kent State and its radicals. The media, of course, turned the students into innocents, but those who know what went on understand the roll of the radical progressives in the incident.
It seems that liberals are not satisfied unless there is turmoil of some kind going on in our country, just the subject and targets of their hate changes from time to time.
It’s neverending, for some reason they can’t be content with anything in life.
Like healthcare, the focus should be on who is charging these exorbitant fees for tuition, books, salaries, etc. Maybe if they reduced those, the tuition can come down.
From what I’ve seen of our universities over the years, I’d pull all public funding until these instituions of higher learning rid themselves of the liberal vermin that is infesting their hallways and lecture halls.
I’m reading F. A. Hayek’s book “The Road to Serfdom”, written in the 30′s. “Social justice” was a term used by socialists then. It seems as if it is being used by them now. When I hear the term “social justice” mentioned by someone, I view that person as either a socialist/communist, or as a useful idiot of socialists/communists.
The entitlement crowd has been protected from actually working hard for a goal. Those receiving handouts never value the handouts, since they invested nothing to get them. Entitlements have produce a bunch of whiny, ungrateful individuals, who stand around demanding the next handout while the rest of us pick up the tab.
Pelosi will get right on it …
There should be NO publicly supported colleges – all colleges and institutions of ‘higher indoctrination” should be strictly private. Let these morons get a real taste of reality after the playgrounds of high school. Half of these kids aren’t concerned with an education anyway – they all try for “party schools” as their first choice. Let them pay for their education and maybe they’ll take it more seriously.
I heard someone spouting the inane:
“We can’t cut education spending! We can’t sacrifice the future to fix the present!”
Nobody seems to realise that the present IS the future that got sacrificed yesterday to make the past cushy and bloated. Value is set by supply and demand. If there’s too much supply (anybody with a pulse and a FAFSA can get a degree) that accreditation has no value. Suddenly that piece of paper people spent so much time and money for doesn’t help them recoup their investment in the job market.
Time to explode the myth that EVERYONE going to college is a good thing. There are plenty of alternatives depending on what career path you want to take, including internships, certificate programs, trade schools, and just plain working for a living.
Schools no longer compete for applicants… applicants compete for schools. As such schools have little incentive to maintain curricular quality, which has gone to crap. Just look at Harvard’s forced “A” grading policy. Colleges barely teach anything more than instilling a sense of unfounded superiority in their students. “I went to college, ergo I am smarter than anyone who didn’t.” Look at Olberloon and his Cornell Degree.
Sure I went to college too, but TBH, the college is now the LAST thing I look at on applicant’s resume. Too many grads think they’re enlightened about “social justice,” but lack the critical thinking abilities to figure out why yanking a video card out of a running computer could be a bad thing (true story). Training is good, but it doesn’t appreciably grow new brain cells.
I’d support a 100% privatization of education at all levels, and the widespread reintroduction of work-study programs. People who actually pay for their education appreciate it more and try to get more out of it than people who just get some faceless bank to give them a 4 year free ride… and then act surprised when the bill comes due.
Not to worry. BHO will pay for everyone’s college tuition….and our homes, our fuel, and of course our cars.
Too many “kids” (sorry to be un-PC) think that other people should pay for their education. Federal aid has encouraged higher education to be overly accessible and overinflated. Having a college education is no “guarantee” of future success given the entitlement attitude that already exists in college students who enter higher education.
I feel the most sympathy for those who work and save to afford their tuition and make the most sacrifices. How many sacrifices have these protesting youths really made for their education? How much have Mummy and Daddy had to pony up so that Junior or Princess could go to the school of their choice?
I really do think that higher education will be the next bubble to pop because too many people go to college and get very little for it except the large, overly inflated tuition bill. Too many people also think that student loans won’t harm them until they come due and discover that that liberal arts degree doesn’t automatically come with a money back guarantee.
We’re graduating nitwits and people lacking common sense. I’ve seen it in public education where “educated” teachers continue to make our kids stupider and I’m seeing it with the idiots that currently inhabit the White House.
When will sanity return?
You’d think they could cut some of the garbage at the universities that parents pay for that have NOTHING to do with education.
Guess not.
Can’t they just take on-line courses in Socialism, Trotskyism, Leninism, and Women’s Studies?
MM>> 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.
Great point, MM!
There is no database software powerful enough to track the hypocrisies of the Left.
A sign had Students and Workers Unite.A sign behind it had End Capitalism.If the students ever graduate and become workers it will be for the state run factories and salt mines when capitalism is gone.I wonder how far a protest will get them then.
Put all the little brats in jail and make mommy and daddy bail them out. Maybe some of them will refuse and we can get rid of some of the brain-dead liberals. I know these kids have been brainwashed, but enough is enough!
By the way, do not enter these college campuses without your handgun. You may need it. These “kids” play rough.
Not that UW Madison doesn’t have plenty of raving leftist nutballs Michelle, but I believe you mean UW Milwaukee in your sentence before the quote.
No worries little kiddies. I’m sure somehow this can be foisted on the taxpayers.
Add in the cost of riot damage to the tuition increases…
They look like a bunch of angry white people.
Look deep enough, you’ll find a communist organization behind these protests, just like all the anti-war protests.
I’ll never forget when I was going to college in WI, and there was a group of “anarchists” with their faces covered and black bandanas on their heads protesting outside the student union. I asked what they were protesting, and of course the answer was the government. The same government which was, through financial aid, paying for them to be at school, and paying for them to be outside protesting instead of in class where they should have been.
It’s GOT to be painful to be that f’n stupid. College kids are the worst, and I include myself, when I was in school, in that group.
Er… as a point of order, the article discusses UW-Milwaukee, thus the campus police asked the city of Milwaukee for police help. UW-Madison (the campus most of us think of when we think of the Wisconsin Badgers) is half a state away.
Must be Milwaukee’s proximity to the hometown of THE ONE… those wacky Lake Michigan college kids sure know how to party!
Because those courses are content-free. They are about associating with like-minded persons, in an atmosphere free of the capitalist dogma permeating mommie’s basement.
But you knew that…
On the other hand, considering the education some of these people get – the Univerities are charging too much already.
I feel sorry for the poor police officers. I wonder how many of them will fired because some poor little imature college student got a boo boo while they fighting the police and breaking the law.
You just know one of these ‘gimmie now’ types are going to file a lawsuit.
I say work farms for the lot them.
What is missing from these protests is the BIGGEST cause of HIGHER tuitions!
The underlying problem is the California teacher’s unions!
They have GOUGED the school budgets to the point of STEALING from the very students they claim to care about! Teaching is no longer a noble job in California. It is in fact a public union fraud that steals from everyone in the state!
On March 4th, 2010 at 7:45 pm, Lucifer Jones said:
Yes, “Social Justice”, “Social Gospel“, etc., are all variations on the same theme: The Program of the Communist Party USA.
Having had more fun with this kind of thing than I ever wish to remember, I will buy everyone on this thread dinner if 40% of the protestors were currently registered full time students.
That is the dirty secret about these “student protestors.”
Students? Ya right.
Have these students been reading their CPUSA Discussion Guides?
Funny how they never direct their ire at the college professors and their 6 figure salaries.
I always get a kick out of looking at the University of Massachusetts salary list.
Gotta love the karmic irony here of colleges teaching and promoting the progressive agenda to their little socialists, including the concept of “entitlement”…then having their little Frankensteins, now duly indoctrinated, bite them in the azz with it.
The more we become like France, well … the more we become like France.
Gross.
This isn’t about students, its about feeding the liberal machine just like it always has been.
Hey, if bailed out execs are greedy and have to be salary capped and their companies are subject to controls and public outrage, how is it higher ed. gets a pass on taxpayer blood sucking, aren’t they just as greedy?
Oh, and the sign with the black hand saying:
Yeah, it’s all the white capitalist male’s fault…
We’re living in a completely backward, upside down, inside out, insane country. Absolutely insane.
What if we went around saying:
They would accuse of us of being Nazis, wouldn’t they?
I agree! Let the morons burn down the colleges. The state can then shut down the campuses, collect the insurance and pay down state debts. I’d call that a win/win situation for the taxpayers…
“Who’s Schools” indeed!
More like “Get Skooled!”
Businesses do not hire people like this, therefore they eventually wind up as trolls in their parents basement, a government employee, an SEIU or other union thug, an ACORN employee, and finally, if they are given to enough violence, Obama appoints them as a czar.
Re: the update — Thanks for the laugh, Michelle.
Wat do we want? Speling lessins!
Wen do we want ‘em? Naow!
Sorry, sorry.
Ahem! This is no laughing matter!
Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I’m being repressed!
Red Pill: Listen.
Strange women lying in pondsGeorge Soros distributingswordsmoney is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcicalaquaticMSM ceremony.Now the following is no laughing matter.
When Bill Ayers talked about finally doing away with capitalists, he was very serious about executing 25 million people!
In my opinion, it appears that Obama’s “Family Friend” sure sounds like a National Socialist (a.k.a. Nazi).
Please, Obama prefers that you refer to the party by its full and proper name. That would be the “National Socialist German Workers’ Party” or “NSDAP” if you absolutely MUST abbreviate it…
Heck, if Ayers only wanted to kill 25 million people that puts him in the conservative wing of Obama’s friends. Some of them want to kill 2/3 of the people on the planet…
This is the looniest bunch since Mao, Stalin and Hitler!
Gotta love it! Sounds like these kids aren’t getting
they’retheir money’s worth, anyway.These right-wing, astroturf, nazi, racist, domestic man-made disaster creators are a great danger to our national security.
Oh, these are not the tea-baggers? They are innocent college kids?
Oops, NEVER MIND!
On March 4th, 2010 at 11:38 pm, WarEagle82 said:
Believe it or not, it’s even worse than that.
The U.S. Census Bureau estimates the World Population at over 6.8 Billion people.
There are those out there on the far left who believe so strongly in reducing the world’s population to 0.5 Billion that they literally built a momument and carved it in stone.
Reducing the world population from 6.8 Billion to 0.5 Billion would mean exterminating over 92% of the world’s population.
And they are serious about it.
Ebonics?
Gosh, those nutty old professors and their leftist friends.
Can’t live with ‘em, and they are more than willing to oblige, seriously…
The Hulk is getting wordy these days.
I’m surprise’d the’y coul’d spel’l “Patriarchy” properl’y…
Who has a school? Who is Who?
(This has got to be an updated Abbott and Costello routine…it is isn’t it?)
This is really no surprise coming from kids who speak with the obscene overuse of the word “LIKE”!
“We were out like protesting the oppressive school administration and like standing up for social justice and stuff today,and the cops like came over and were like sooooo ruuude!! They were like spraying us with pepper spray and stuff and were like pushing us and like shoving us and we were like sooooo not doing anything!!!!”
UGH…GAG ME WITH A
SPOONBULLDOZER!What’s withe the AFSCME and UAW posters. I can see AFSCAME as their is a good chance they have members their, but why UAW? Is the UAW now spending members dues on this now, as they have already run GM into the ground.
On March 4th, 2010 at 7:29 pm, zorro said:
What business person in their right mind would hire freaks like this?
The university will hire them, you are looking at the next generation of professors.
I’m sure glad I went to Oklahoma State University (GO COWBOYS!). There, if students didn’t like something, we did outrageous things like sign petitions and write letters to the newspaper.
A tinge of violence from the left — Pelosi will get right on. Weird how the left has only a one way mind.
What I can’t believe here in CA is the police failure of arresting any of these criminals. I believe the DA’s need to start an investigation into finding out why the police are not arresting criminals.
I’ve always said that the Federal Government exists to supply jobs for college graduates. Cut off their source of work and you’d see a lot colleges fold real quickly.
I heard one of the mush headed students on the radio saying education must be free and public. She doesnt understand somebody has to pay for her free education.
Wasn’t it Dr. Spock who advocated against a good spanking? These young adults need to be spanked..hard.
WHO’S SCHOOLS…?????
Why, WHEEZE SCHOOLS…!!!!
Like I said on the first post, let them burn these cesspools down. (I know…a good trick.)
They can then begin the process of learning reality.
And the elitists talk about us in the midwest and South being a bunch of rubes?
Someone needs to learn those kids some spellin’.
Typical ignorance of liberal, indoctrinated college students. Proof that a little knowledge is dangerous.
As for the violence…
Those are Domestic Liberal Terrorists. It’s a growing problem in our country and these extremist left wingers need to be stopped.
The great thing about living in America is that you can leave that “repressive” school and go to a less repressive one anytime you like. Nobody cares which school you go to, or even if you choose to not go to school at all and maybe get a job.
Moron.
Why not give the kids what they want, lower tuition?
Lower it by:
Drop courses/discharge profs teaching “Understanding the Feminine side of Comedy.” or “Role of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart in Modern Society.”
Stop building university ‘hotels’ with spa style amenities.
Get rid of shuttle buses for fat arse students. Make em walk!
Imagine how inexpensive education would be if they cut out degree programs like history, political “science”, women studies and the like. What does a degree in business really mean, what “break-throughs” have come about? Why are the arts, humanities and other hobby/side interest things given the same level of importance as math, physics, chemistry, engineering, computer science, etc??? I like sudoku puzzles, why can’t I get a degree in it from Berkley?
Whining crybabies comes to mind.
So their utopia is crumbling? You mean they have to pay the bills now? Shockah!
Ignatius Riley >> “There is no database software powerful enough to track the hypocrisies of the Left.”
I don’t know, there have been some pretty big advances in quantum computing lately, so that could be just around the corner.
Bunch of dope smokin’ hippies…their children were their best friends ya know, thank you Dr. Spock.
These nimrods are clearly indoctrinated long before college. Dismantle all government schools now.
Ain’t it a bit*h when the Gravy Train jumps the tracks and grinds to a halt? Viva la Revolucion!
Get ready to learn a trade boys and girls. Learn what it really means to be a member of the real worker class. You’ll find out real quick whether you should buy an IPhone, a new tat, or food this month.
Where’s the media and Pelosi calling these lunatics Nazis?
Well said Khyris. Euro style trade school tracks also.
I nominate you for Secretary of Education under the coming Conservative Administration. Unfortunately for the Progressives you will likely have it shut down by year four.
“No Cuts, No Fees, Education Should be Free!”
http://revousa.org/?p=577
If these kids actually cared about the cause instead of just wanting to relive the glory days of their professors by wearing masks and smashing stuff, they would protest at the state capital. Individual state colleges have nothing to do with setting tuition, but its kind of ironic that the leftists running the campuses are now “the Man” and getting what they dished out in the 60′s.
And look who is organizing this “spontaneous” riot: The Usual Suspects
Pat–have bandanna/will travel
They tried to correct it and ended up with “Who’se schools?” Haha.
Hour Skools!
Yesterday at San Diego State University, the students staged a walk out because the school has mandatory furlough days for the professors which means there is no class.
I have to say this pisses me off and the kids should protest. As a parent paying for 3 credits a week, I want my kid to have 3 classes a week.
They have cut the class time but raised the tuition. It’s like the new thievery of business whereby they sell the product at the same or slightly higher price, but reduce the size.
There are ways to reduce costs that should not involve less class time for the very students the college is there to serve.
AlohaGuy–who’s skools? You’re skools?
LOL
Check out their class schedules too. I’ll bet most Professors have classes from 11 – 1:30 Tuesday through Thursday with Office hours until 2:30. Monday and Friday is “research at home”. And TAs grade papers and give tests. It’s a very good life.
Aloha: the office hours are so they can catch up on things…like hanging nooses from their own doorknobs & such.
When I look at these professional protesters, many of which are faux or part-time eternal students, I think of the old Ramones tune:
“Beat on the brat with a baseball bat oh yeah”
Some high-powered hoses would be a nice touch too.
For a life-long academician, making a convincing noose is not as easy as you might think. Oh, sure, YOU have life experience and practical skills. You might be able to change your own oil, pump your own gas, and open your own bottles of extra virgin olive oil.
But professors are another story. They spend their entire life trying to find sort-of-unique ways to insult “The Patriarchy” and “Facist Cops who spray pepper spray and punch peaceful proletariat win the face with no provocation” (other than hurling Molotov cocktails at buildings). You just don’t get “academia” or “diversity…”
True. As well as deleting “data” from their computers, writing angry emails to journal editors, making up “data” – it’s a busy life…
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.