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limpyhobbler

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2. It's nice of the school not to pepper spray them and beat them up...

Reply to Joe Shlabotnik (Reply #1)

Tue May 28, 2013, 12:54 PM

May 2013

But of course then it's unclear how the thing is going to be resolved.

It seems like the occupiers are saying the school might have mismanaged the money, running up big debts, and now they are trying to pay the debts by taking it out on the students, who had no say in the financial management.

I think the demonstrators are asking for more transparency in the finances and a little bit of broader representation in the decision making.

The were on the news a couple weeks ago.

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