Gallaudet, Part Two

[icewolf]

Updates on what's going on here, here and here.

I've been reading up on what's going on and I have to say I have no sympathy for the protesters whatsoever. I really don't understand what they thought would come of the protests. They feel angry and betrayed because they were arrested for shutting down a major educational complex for nearly a week? Someone missed a memo here, and I don't think it was me. The administration has tried to negotiate, offering the students a voice on the board of trustees and giving them input on the hiring of the new provost. They should have taken it. Now all they have--and all they will ever have--for their trouble is their "badge of honor" booking numbers and a lack of education.

Really, it's getting harder and harder to not see the whole thing as one huge temper tantrum.

Comments

par for the course lately, it would seem

[the-mithril-man.livejournal.com]

They probably watched what happened at Columbia U and thought it would be like that. That they wouldn't get punished. The best statement I heard was someone saying that places of learning are more and more becoming the realm of intellectual savages.

Re: par for the course lately, it would seem

[icewolf010.livejournal.com]

Yes and no. When I'm not due to teach in 18 minutes, I'll expand. I have a fun medieval university story. The first faculty strike! I know you're just holding your breath.

Columbia? I know there were protests at AU last spring, but they didn't reach anywhere near these...lows.

[kugelblitz.livejournal.com]

Columbia pitching fits is becoming non newsworthy in some places. I think the Galludet students really think the Apocalypse is coming in January. So who cares about academics? That community has always beeen polarized around these isssues, and the deaf community I know is similarly fractured. Oddly enough, the folks I know who became deaf could care less, while the congenitally deaf ones are more interested. FWIW I know/knew at least one faculty memeber at Galludet.