Comments on: Protest Erupts Outside Teachers College

By: She

She — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:42:33 +0000

She probably did it then

By: hmmmm

hmmmm — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:49:43 +0000

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6989248,00.html

By: Alum

Alum — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:24:18 +0000

I’d hate to think it has cameras pointed at every nook and cranny of its buildings. The idea that there wasn’t a camera pointed at this particular office door should not be such a surprise.

By: does TC

does TC — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:00:43 +0000

not have cameras? This could not have happened at 3 pm on a weekday.

By: Richard Weaver

Richard Weaver — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:14:24 +0000

The spirit of SDS and The Weather Underground lives on in the guise of this manufactured crisis. Take a look at how Columbia grad Mark Rudd portrays himself and his fellow 1960′s Columbia terrorists in an avuncular light here:

http://www.markrudd.com/home/why-were-there-so-many-jews-in-sds/

Columbia students, please read this self-serving article and think on it a bit. My hope is that some of you will wake up to who, and what ideology, is pulling the strings and is manipulating your perceptions.

“Racial tension” has always been guided and exploited by those who stand to gain the most from it. A careful read of Rudd’s brief memoir of his radical days might give rise to an examination of who, and what ideology, is promoting idiocies such as the outrage over this piece of rope and the ersatz “furor” over the Jena 6.

Left vs. right has little meaning to these puppetmasters; note that Rudd pays homage to neoconservative guiding light Leo Strauss in the same paragraph where he praises Marx. Destruction of the pillars of traditional society was- for Strauss and Marx and Rudd- the overt and sometimes covert goal. Please ask yourself: Qui bono?

–Richard M. Weaver
http://www.antiwar.com/stromberg/s022701.html

By: Alum

Alum — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:10:06 +0000

How is CU (or TC) a “racist organization”? TC alone has hundreds of faculty and thousands of students; the actions of one person — who may even have been an outsider — are not those of the school and do not reflect its character. And even if they did, why does this one act overshadow the vastly larger number of compassionate acts by members of the CU and TC communities trying to combat racism? Or those of the institutions themselves?

By: it was

it was — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:59:09 +0000

more like 25 students that marched from earl hall, but whatever.

By: I call 'em

I call 'em — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:00:41 +0000

I call ‘em Gissers

By: Yay

Yay — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:36:46 +0000

Why don’t you just start calling all GS students N****rs while you’re at. I mean how far apart is racism and elitism at the end of the day?

By: ugh

ugh — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:23:02 +0000

To the people “shocked” at the “latent racism” exhibited on the internet, you clearly aren’t familiar with the greater internet fuckwad thoery:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19

By: Glad to

Glad to — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:29:25 +0000

Glad to hear it wasn’t a devastating incident, and congrats for the transfer – unless you’re GS, in which case it doesn’t count

By: Yes

Yes — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:27:36 +0000

Holy hell, I was wondering how long it would take somebody to say this. The protest doesn’t even seem to have any specific demands…

By: Claremont transfer

Claremont transfer — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:08:09 +0000

There was an excellent walk-out and rally sparked directly by the Kerri Dunn debacle at the Claremont Colleges that Wednesday. An entire series of racist incidents that I certainly hadn’t known about were brought to light and discussed alongside the (faked) trashing of Dunn’s car.

Hell, before the Kerri Dunn thing, a lot of people hadn’t known about the utter shitheads who BURNED A CROSS in a dorm lawn in front of a black kid’s room over that previous winter break.

Everyone who I had seen show fear on the night the car was trashed – everyone – was comforted, reassured, and strengthened by the rally. By finding people they knew within it.

Yeah. Remember Kerri Dunn. And remember what we made of it.

By: Wondering

Wondering — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:17:19 +0000

if maybe the same person is behind both the sipa incident and this. It seems to me this is most likely some asshole trying to jerk the student body around. I find it hard to believe that someone racist enough to do this would choose to go to a place as diverse as Columbia. Certainly they could have found somewhere a little more to their liking? There is probably someone out there somewhere really enjoying all the uproar they have caused.

By: FOX

FOX — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:04:08 +0000

i noticed that we made fox news again and of course, the article mentioned ahmadinejad and i thought, “hm, maybe this is all an attempt to keep columbia in the noose”