Twelve students barricaded themselves inside an eighth-floor room at the top of the Cooper Union Foundation Building at noon on Monday to urge the school not to begin charging tuition to undergraduates.
The school has not made a decision on charging tuition for undergraduates. But in April, it decided to begin charging tuition to graduate students for the first time in its 110-year history.
— cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com
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This protest is a beautiful thing. Good for them taking a stand for the students that come after them and the ideals of the school.
OCCUPY CU!
Rock on!
and
Hey FRac[ky] i'm guessing you have a problem with a private foundation's mission?? When that mission falls off the tracks, not due to student issues, but due to horribly planned expansion - despite how much I enjoy the new building - now students have to bear that burden? Was this the plan all along?
How 'bout we dont speak generally about the mission of private foundations and speak specifically about THIS mission? Peter Cooper's mission - providing a free education, which later turned into providing a door to culture, as the institution, the city, and architecture changed? To lose that would echo beyond our little walls (in my fucking humble opinion - pick a starchitect : Cooper Union). Cheers for noblesse oblige! Cheers for idealistic expenditure! Fuck the Caymans (no disrespect to the Caymans)! Cheers for opportunitay! Cheers for tech education which ends in the land of art (you know, if, like, given a century)!
I mean sulky NYC art kids protesting is a drag, but the mission of ol' Pete is top notch. Fuckin shame if Bruce High Quality is the only organization helping to protect it (kudos to BHQF).
ressspect my opportunitayyy!
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