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To End Student Protests, Cut off their Wifi

By propertyprof

Well, sometimes when students are denied wifi, they protest.  But who would have thought that the way to stop them from protesting was to cut off their wifi?!  

After about 70 students took over the dining room on Wednesday night, they created a Web site (takebacknyu.com), where they listed demands, including a thorough annual reporting of the university?s operating budget, expenditures and endowment. They also asked that the university provide 13 scholarships a year to students from the Gaza Strip and allow graduate teaching assistants to unionize.

Then, the University got serious:  "about two dozen students inside the dining room awoke on Friday morning to find that electricity and their wireless Internet had been cut off."  Apparently the protest ended shortly thereafter.  Another sign that we can't live without the internet.

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on February 21, 2009 (boomark / email).