Forwarded message from CUNY Students - http://the.newschoolinexile.com [1]
At 8pm, December 18th, over 75 students reclaimed the cafeteria at the New School University as an autonomous student center. Students from several Universities commandeered this space. Students of City College, Borough of Manhattan Community College, Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center are here participating in this struggle. This is every student's occupation.
If this can happen at the New School, through the organized activity of 75 dedicated students, it can happen at CUNY. And we certainly have reason to be upset: On the first day of the Fall 2008 semester, the CUNY budget was slashed $50.6 million. Massive layoffs plague all our schools. We are now being told of a looming $600-per-year tuition hike and more colossal budget cuts to CUNY students and teachers, in a school that was once FREE.
We will continue this campus occupation until our demands are met. While the demands tonight are specific to The New School we will not be satisfied until the students and faculty of CUNY, NYU, all the consortium schools and beyond, have control over their universities. Education should be free, student debts should be cancelled, students and workers should work together to achieve our goals, and we start here.
Please, come out to the New School and support us! Join us! We are at 65 5th avenue (between 13th and 14th St.). The building will be open to all consortium students at 7:30am, we invite you to come any time tomorrow, but articularly at 10:30 when there will be a rally and press conference. The morning hours will be crucial, and the student-occupiers need to know that we are not struggling alone!
What We Want:
- The removal of Bob Kerrey as president of our university
- The removal of James Murtha as executive vice president of our university
- Students, faculty, and staff elect the president, EVP, and Provost.
- Students are part of the interim committee to hire a provost.
- The removal of Robert B. Millard as treasurer of the board of trustees.
- Intelligible transparency and disclosure of the university budget and investments.
- The creation of a committee on socially responsible investments as defined in our booklet.
- The immediate suspension of capital improvement projects like the tearing down of 65 fifth Ave.
- Instead, money towards the creation of an autonomous student space.
- Instead, money towards scholarships and reducing tuition.
- Instead, money for the library and student life generally.
The Radical Student Union (SDS [2], SEAC, UFPJ)
thenewschoolforrevolution@gmail.com [3]
By kilroy http://the.newschoolinexile.com [1]
only a beginning http://www.amoryresistencia.blogspot.com [4]
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2008/12/102244.html [5]
