Happening Now: Rutgers Student Study-In

by: Rosi Efthim

Wed Apr 27, 2011 at 04:41:12 PM EDT

Several dozen students are in Hour 6 of an occupation of the office of Rutgers President Richard McCormick, with students in support of them rallying outside the Old Queens building. The issues, as outlined in a press release to media and presented to the university are:

Pillows & laptops: Click to enlarge

freeze tuition fees

eliminate, for the first 10 transcripts, the school's $7 charge for transcripts

voting seats on the Board of Governors for students (3), faculty and staff (1 each)

disaffiliation from the "corporate-controlled Fair Labor Assn"

1-year tuition freeze in light of tuition doubling over the last 10 years.

fair & speedy arbitration for Rutgers' workers re: the two-year salary freeze affecting them.

They're settled in. The shoes are off, the pillows are out and the laptops are open. And they're taking their inspiration, says Molly Magier of Rutgers United Students Against Sweatshops, from USAS members at the University of Wisconsin, who occupied their administrative building to also protest the privatization of their University and skyrocketing tuition just yesterday. The U of W is in Madison, site of the massive community response to Gov. Scott Walker's efforts to end collective bargaining in that state.
A facebook page - Save Public Education - Rutgers - carries a letter to the university president.

The university's statement says McCormick Friday and he's hip to their demands (okay, so that's the gist).

The students in the administrative offices have been told they need to vacate by 5pm, some 20 minutes from now. You can follow along via their Twitter feed @RutgersStudent

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Happening Now: Rutgers Student Study-In | 3 comments

power to the people! (0.00 / 0)

(and please take the University prez down a peg for me!)

activist for hire.

by: Jay Lassiter @ Wed Apr 27, 2011 at 21:10:07 PM UTC

wonder how this will work out (0.00 / 0)

Good luck to the students.

Frank LoBiondo Record and Jon Runyan Watch

by: Hopeful @ Wed Apr 27, 2011 at 21:54:23 PM UTC

Latest @RutgersStudent tweet (0.00 / 0)

A minute ago:

RUPD has agreed to arrest us. But instead they wait, making us stay couped in a stifling hot lobby or cramped in a kitchenette. Torture

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.

by: Rosi Efthim @ Wed Apr 27, 2011 at 22:32:01 PM UTC