NYU begins a police-state-style crackdown on students who rioted, and then barricaded themselves in a cafeteria, to demand more transparency for the school’s investment, budget, and endowment information:

The university has now taken away power, internet, and restrooms according to the students, but the protestors show no signs of leaving anytime soon.

Apparently, the students also want the school to give supplies to help re-build a university damaged in an Israeli strike, and to provide scholarships for Palestinian students. I guess the two causes are linked so closely they might as well kill two birds with one stone.

And here’s a wonderful sampling of college-student logic:

Emily Stainkamp, a sit-in participant, called the university’s call for the students to leave the Greenwich Village building “ridiculous.”
“Holding the space is essential to having our demands met,” said Stainkamp, an 18-year-old freshman from Greensboro, N.C.

Makes sense to me! But then again, so does tear gas.