Students occupy University of Manchester Admin building...
Show some backbone - have these student leaders arrested...
Over 150 University of Manchester students have occupied the main university administration building in a demand for a stronger and more proactive position from the university on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.Protest if you want....but you'd think these students would believe an occupation is illegal....
The students have proposed a set of demands on the university's Vice Chancellor Alan Gilbert, including a boycott of Israeli goods on campus, support for a day of fundraising with proceeds to the DEC fund, and that the university end research into manufacturing arms.
Students at other universities have taken similar actions over the last three weeks and have been successful in their demands.
posted by GayandRight @ 2:23 PM
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the hypocricy is so thick...
Universities are supposed to be institutions that promote free thought and debate. They should be a refuge from the burden of popular opinion; and instead of upholding views that are simply more popular or have more feverish supporters, the university must support arguments that work, through the uninhibited use of reason.
These students taking over buildings on their own campus is clearly the use of argument by popularity or feverishness of its supporters, and has no place in the university system. If the students want to debate the justice of the war in Gaza, or the justice of an Israeli boycott, with cogent arguments then that should totally be encouraged. If they want to bully their admins into taking a certain stance on Israel, the students undermine the very education they seek.
University of thought.
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