PRINCETON STUDENTS LAUNCH HUNGER STRIKE IN SOLIDARITY WITH GAZA
Participants will abstain from all food and drink (except water) until our demands are met. We commit our bodies to their liberation of Palestine. PRINCETON, hear us now! We will not be moved!
There's a new force in town,a moral army that serves humanity and humanity alone . Nothing he says/do can stop them from achieving their ultimate goal... A FREE PALESTINE,FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA!
it's so frustrating to love the act of learning and hate the structure of school itself
the way universities and upper academia are structured have never been super conductive to the way I learn and retain information (especially as someone with poor memory and other learning challenges)
school does not always equal learning or at least it doesn't always prompt engagement. it's frustrating to still be stuck in a system that values your ability to regurgitate ideas more than forming new and original ones. it's frustrating to be in classes of over 100 people where you feel like another statistic for a given department. it's frustrating to be in classes where professors act like authoritative figures and use fear rather than compassion to rule the classroom. it's frustrating to not be allowed accomodations because you don't have enough "medical evidence" to warrant one. it's frustrating that your ability to pay for school is often tied to grades, even though financial stability is what allows for more time spent learning and studying. it's infuriating that something you have to put so much time and money into barely counts towards an actual career and serves more as a stepping stone.
I have learned a lot at my time in university thus far, I don't want to discount that, but I also feel like it hasn't always been a helpful way to learn the skills I need for the future
If you're having trouble keeping up with what's going on in Palestine because of US news coverage of university protests, here are some articles you can read and a video you can watch:
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While CNN & all the other mainstream media try to paint the university protests as "pro terrorism" (which they're not, they're literally anti-war protests.) Palestinians are being slaughtered by the minute.
This elderly woman was one of the leaders of demonstrations against the Vietnam War in 1968, when she was a student at Columbia University. Today, 56 years later, she returns to the same place and says, "Palestine must be free."
Bird identification is so fucked up in a really fun way you can’t understand until you get into it. For example, there is a type of goose called the cackling goose that looks exactly like a Canada goose except smaller and “cuter”. The cackling goose is way, way, more rare in most places than its relatively common cousin, so it’s on tons of birders life lists. Everyone wants to see a cackling (look in any bird ID group to see lots of hopeful people posting petite Canada geese). The two species regularly commingle, so sometimes a flock of those common parking lot birds will have the equivalent of a Pokémon shiny just hanging out in the middle of them.
How ridiculous and fun is that? I can never look at a big group of Canada geese without scrutinizing their ranks for an adorable little extremely rare cutie pie cackling goose. It reminds me a bit of mushroom harvesting minus the risk of death if you get it wrong
Police stormed the Columbia University building late Tuesday after the university asked for help, a spokesman said in a statement. A tent camp on campus was cleared, as was Hamilton Hall, where a stream of police used a ladder to climb through a second-floor window.
Protesters calling for the Ivy League university to stop collaborating with Israel or companies that support the Gaza war took over the hall about 20 hours ago. The school said:
“After the University learned overnight that Hamilton Hall had been occupied, vandalised, and blockaded, we were left with no choice. The decision to reach out to the NYPD was in response to the actions of the protesters, not the cause they are championing. We have made it clear that the life of campus cannot be endlessly interrupted by protesters who violate the rules and the law.”
The arrests came after protesters refused to honour an earlier ultimatum to leave the camp on Monday or be suspended, and after other universities stepped up efforts to end the demonstrations inspired by Columbia University.
Fabien Lugo, a first-year accounting student who said he did not participate in the protests, said he disagreed with the university’s decision to call the police. He said:
“This is too intense. It feels like more of an escalation than a de-escalation.”