I finished ALL of my HW for tomorrow at 11:15pm...

...And now I don't know what to do with myself.  

In other exciting news, Take Back NYU, a club at NYU that is pretty much unhappy with everything about the school and finds radical ways to protest everything that they hate about school, have decided to barricade themselves in Kimmel, our student center tonight à la the New School sit-in earlier this school year.   For pictures of the barricaded dining hall (which is inside the student center), click here.

Also, here are a select few goodies off of their list of demands:

• Full annual disclosure of budget
• Full union rights for all employees, including grad students
• Annual scholarships for 13 Palestinian students
• A donation of excess supplies to rebuild the University of Gaza
• Tuition stabilization for all students
• General public access to Bobst library
• Full legal and disciplinary amnesty for all parties involved in the occupation

To which I say a couple of things (though I admit that I don't have all of the information necessary to be making the most sound and educated decisions on all of these issues):

• NYU is a nonprofit organization so isn't a bunch their financial info public record?
• What makes you more qualified, at 18-22 years old, to understand and analyze the budget than the people who are employed to do so?  It is their job, they spend their day dealing with all this money stuff, that I admittedly have no clue about.
• Where does Gaza fit in with all of the NYU discontent?
• Bobst? Open to the public? I (my mom and dad) pay $50,000 a year for me to go to a private university and using the library's resources is included in that price.  If you want access to a library, go to the New York Public Library.  It's free.  And large.
• If you're going to ruin school property and make security guards work overtime just so that you can get quoted in the Village Voice, then you should be held responsible for your actions.
• This is not the New School.  Chances are nothing concrete other than a couple of news articles will come of this protest.  John Sexton will ignore you, just like he ignored the graduate student strike a couple of years ago.
• If you hate NYU so much, go to another school.  You knew what you were signing up for when you enrolled.

So I realize that I sound incredibly bitter (more so than I actually am), but I just have some issues with the way that they are going about trying to get things changed.