Mommas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be...
...Assistant Anthropology Professors!
I know there is a Sandy Berger joke here somewhere.
The University of Virginia was the scene last week of a sit in that has been a hoot to follow. A group of students threw a hissy fit, well, they threw themselves on the floor anyway, near the President's office in an area now known as the Time Out Room when they couldn't get their way.
Luckily they didn't hold their breath til they turned blue as it was 4 days before they were removed. Meanwhile, outside, their mommies, daddies and play pals attempted to bring them homework and food. It is not known if it was Gerbers strained or chunky junior but it did not make it into the building. Oh, the humanity!
The womyn pictured above, Assistant Anthropology Professor Wende Marshall, was arrested while attempting to enter the Time Out room in an effort to comfort and wipe noses. There may have been legos in the bag on the floor but that has not been confirmed.
After the trespassing students were arrested (some screaming, some crying), their mommies & daddies complained bitterly about the possibility of their Precious having a criminal record.
On this miserable tax day, with two cars in the shop and cold, gloomy rain dampening the county, I personally want to thank UVA's French Dips for the comic relief they have provided us out here on the green acre.
Up the Comrades!
File this one under red diaper doper babies.
I know there is a Sandy Berger joke here somewhere.
The University of Virginia was the scene last week of a sit in that has been a hoot to follow. A group of students threw a hissy fit, well, they threw themselves on the floor anyway, near the President's office in an area now known as the Time Out Room when they couldn't get their way.
Luckily they didn't hold their breath til they turned blue as it was 4 days before they were removed. Meanwhile, outside, their mommies, daddies and play pals attempted to bring them homework and food. It is not known if it was Gerbers strained or chunky junior but it did not make it into the building. Oh, the humanity!
The womyn pictured above, Assistant Anthropology Professor Wende Marshall, was arrested while attempting to enter the Time Out room in an effort to comfort and wipe noses. There may have been legos in the bag on the floor but that has not been confirmed.
After the trespassing students were arrested (some screaming, some crying), their mommies & daddies complained bitterly about the possibility of their Precious having a criminal record.
On this miserable tax day, with two cars in the shop and cold, gloomy rain dampening the county, I personally want to thank UVA's French Dips for the comic relief they have provided us out here on the green acre.
Up the Comrades!
File this one under red diaper doper babies.
posted by f mcdonald at 11:09 PM
2 Comments:
The display was surely comical, but it was also very sad. The university setting is supposed to be inquisitive, not so ready to accept established dogma. "Let's just raise everybody's wage" seems to beg inquiry, everywhere except the university and the halls of congress, apparently.
I wonder if the students ever explored the possibility that raising the minimum wage to help SOME poor people, actually affects OTHER poor people adversely.
For example, how about POOR CONSUMERS of whatever product sold or service rendered by the organization? They will now have to pay more. How about the poor people who CAN NO LONGER SECURE A POSITION with this entity because at the artificially elevated price, their labor no longer has enough value?
If the employer simply cannot raise his price to accommodate the increased cost, then how about the POOR people who don't get jobs because the firm LOSES its profit margin, and thus its ability to expand?
You make some very good points about how raising wages effects others.
I found the whole protest irritating to the nth degree especially after reading up on the "professors" involved. They claim this was all part of the democratic process. Not all institutions (in fact hardly any) are democraticly run to begin with and democratic processes do not usually include breaking the law to get the result you want.
BTW - you have an informative website.
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