University Of New Orleans PROTESTS: Students Barricade Themselves In Building (WATCH)

A group of University of New Orleans students occupied a campus building yesterday in protest of higher-education budget cuts.

The Associated Press reports:

None of the eight to 10 students who barricaded themselves in UNO's Milneburg Hall, a liberal arts and sciences building, was arrested after campus police forced their way into the building around 8:30 a.m., about two hours after a cleaning crew found the entrances blocked, said university spokesman Mike Rivault.

Rivault said the protesters apparently slept in the building overnight and blocked entrances with tables.

The confrontation ended without incident, though the university's police chief was injured in an earlier altercation with a protester.

$14 million has been cut from the university's budget since January 2009.

WATCH: ABC 26 reports from the scene:

 

Comments

[anticapitalist1983]

05:25 PM on 09/02/2010

the occupier's website is at http://occupyla.wordpress.com and is awesome.

[eric14]

05:45 PM on 09/02/2010

Here is something they can watch. This is protest:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNocyz1NRjA&feature=related

[1110Awaits]

01:29 PM on 09/02/2010

This stuff always kills me! The "students" protest the cuts. How about people that are paying into the system protest! LOL! Sure the students are protesting. They're not having to pay for it. They don't have to worry about depleting/declining tax revenues. If I were the school, I'd say "Fine, we'll keep the things you want. But just know, your tuition will go up by 22% because we don't have the money from the same coffers as we had 2-3 years ago. So, you can keep your spiffs. But, we can no longer afford them (without laying off teachers which is difficult at universities due to tenure). Thanks for contributing the infrastructure of your place of higher education. That'll be $19,000 each. We expect payment on Net 30 terms." LOL!

[Katrina Schmidt]

12:06 AM on 09/05/2010

UNO is a commuter college, the majority of students work while going to school at the university. So yes, we are most definitely paying for our education through taxes. Maybe you should learn a little bit about what you're talking about before mindlessly typing away thoughts onto a computer screen.

[Senseid]

01:03 PM on 09/02/2010

UNO is ranked dead last with a score of 0 in Washington Monthly's annual ranking.

[1110Awaits]

01:32 PM on 09/02/2010

Why am I not surprised? With that juicy tidbit of information, I can deduce that the reason for budget cuts is because their revenues are down because of inferior product/performance. If they suck, people that suck go out of business. It is not my job to keep failing ventures afloat (GM, Chrysler). That's up to the marketplace and the consumer.

[neverdeadned]

04:36 PM on 09/02/2010

I like you

[anticapitalist1983]

05:28 PM on 09/02/2010

yes, education is a private good with no socially benefically purpose that benefits everyone, right? so only those who can pay it's full cost should go right?

you must live in a gated neighborhood or something, because here in the N.O. we know that without education, you get lots and lots of crime and social problems that negatively effect everyone.
how about YOU pay up for the safe streets an educated society provides? that is a positive externality of education that YOU benefit from, so you should pay for it. (and you do through taxes right now, which is how it should be. less should be for wars and more for schools!)

[JaneDoeNOLA]

11:25 PM on 09/02/2010

Do you know how to read?

http://news.uno.edu/Public/Index.asp?page_id=30&Content_ID=1589

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/rankings_2010/national_university_rank_2nd_page.php

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/rankings_2010/national_university_rank.php

The school is not ranked "dead last." It was the last on the list in 2009, but that isn't a ranking of all the universities in the nation. There are far more than 258 of those.