DC: Swarthmore College — a fancypants, politically-correct hothouse bursting at the seams with wealthy white kids — has announced that it may punish five students for their role in a four-hour takeover of an administrative office last month.
The students facing the prospect of punishment for breaking school rules have reacted with disappointment and confusion.
The demonstrating students are part of Swarthmore’s Mountain Justice group, a campus organization which is perpetually demanding that Swarthmore’s trustees sell all the fossil-fuel stocks in the school’s luxurious $1.9 billion endowment portfolio.
The latest divestment protest occurred on Swarthmore’s campus on Feb. 24, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer.
About 80 students joined the four-hour sit-in at the office of Mark C. Amstutz, the chief investment officer at the Quaker-founded liberal arts bastion in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
A hardcore group of about two dozen students later held a “die-in” outside another academic building where Swarthmore’s trustees were meeting.
The protesting students then resumed their normal lives — consuming gobs of electricity, going places in automobiles, that kind of thing.
SNIP: But soon, there would be pearl clutching…
I’d like to see Mom and Dads portfolio. I’m betting a good chunk of their walking around cash, comes from oil.
Indisputable proof that a Swarthmore diploma is absolutely worthless.
Mighty white of those rudents, well, except for the chinaman down front.
oooooh, “…mere warnings, to possible probation…”
Tough stuff, Sharthmore.
Call me when you start locking them up in stocks on the quad.
@cfm990: “I’m betting a good chunk of their walking around cash, comes from oil”
…and tobacco…
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4001358-altria-smokin-7-percent-yield
…But I reckon that’ll be protested at the “Swarthmore Smoke-out” this Spring.
Damn Shoobies
Good one! And then they go out and consume copious amounts of energy like drug addicts consuming copious amount of addictive substances!
Boy am I glad I never had any kids to sent to college.
If fictional Lazlo-the-younger attended one of these schools I would show up with a certificate for tuition at a welding school, and extricate them from this Hell, by force if necessary.
Well, more probably, I would just cancel their next semester payment and any cards attached to an account with my name on it.
Hey, that’s a good idea. Divest of every stock you disagree with. Oil, energy, Israel, weapons. All stocks earning more that 8%. Then when the school cannot meet its obligation to pay 100% of promised pensions, the staff can go fuck themselves.
Bring in the scoop trucks.
Hoisted on their own (very expensive) petard!
Sorry boys and girls. Your white privilege doesn’t equal black privilege.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/30/as-college-sophomore-eric-holder-participated-in-armed-takeover-of-former-columbia-university-rotc-office/