Cal Poly Humboldt Shuts Down as Student Protesters Seize Control of Campus Buildings
“school business will be conducted remotely for the rest of the semester amid a student occupation on campus”
As bad as things are at Columbia, they aren’t as bad as what’s unfolding at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt. Student protesters there have taken over campus buildings and blocked entrances with piles of furniture to prevent access by police and others.
The school is now shut down for the rest of the semester.
CBS News reports:
Cal Poly Humboldt closes campus through end of semester amid pro-Palestinian protests
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt announced Friday that all classes and school business will be conducted remotely for the rest of the semester amid a student occupation on campus protesting the ongoing war in Gaza.
University officials extended the closure of the campus until May 10 — the end of the semester — saying instruction would continue to be remote, after protesters at the university in northern California used furniture, tents, chains and zip ties to block entrances to an academic and administrative building on Monday.
Commencement at the school is currently scheduled for May 11.
Officials said in a statement Tuesday that students had occupied a second building and three students had been arrested. On Wednesday, officials said some unidentified people who were not students were also inside one of the occupied buildings. On Thursday, the university said protesters continued to occupy the two buildings.
A dean at the school, Jeff Crane, suggested during the meeting that the university form a committee that would include students to do a deep dive into the school’s investments. Crane also suggested faculty and students continue meeting every 24 hours to keep an open line of communication. The sides have yet to announce an agreement.
Take a look at the destruction inside one of these buildings.
NEW: Cal Poly Humboldt campus *closes* through the end of the semester as students have seized multiple buildings on campus.
Siemens Hall and Nelson Hall East have been barricaded and taken over by pro-Palestine protesters.
The buildings are completely trashed with graffiti… pic.twitter.com/rFobgUyIPk
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 27, 2024
Here’s a local news report:
Will these students be forced to pay for this damage? They should be.
Some reports about pro-Palestinian students at Cal Poly Humboldt are understating the damage.
They TRASHED the university. It'll cost serious money to restore these buildings. Campus is closed until the fall.
Can the idiots supporting this explain why the university and its… pic.twitter.com/SQtm7Yo3ot
— Sia Kordestani (@SiaKordestani) April 28, 2024
This was the scene at the school five days ago.
At a violent far-left direct action at Cal Poly Humboldt @humboldtcalpoly for Gaza where militants occupied part of a campus building on April 22, responding police were assaulted and battered. pic.twitter.com/whgax34wgT
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) April 23, 2024
The longer this goes on, the worse it will get and the harder it will be to end it.
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Q: Why are dogs smarter than the campus Hamas protesters?
A: Dogs have the sense to not s**t where they eat and sleep.
Arcata is just the Berkley of the Redwoods. The Arcata forest should be clear cut to force the Marxust tree huggers to go find and underpass to sleep in.
NO WAY Cut those trees the invading creeps win, and they know it.
Were the sit-ins of the 60’s different in terms of disruption of overall campus life? The fact that everyone has to suffer at some of these schools is unfortunate. I remember seeing reports and stories of students locking themselves in college presidents’ offices but this seems a bit much.
The students are just emulating what they were taught back in the days of elementary school. Johnny and Jimmy got into a fight so everyone in class has to stay after school. They carried over to. We have grievances so we’re going to make everybody’s life miserable.
Not much different. I was a Junior during the building takeovers at Cornell in 1969 so I saw it up close. This is a recent excellent recap of the events:
https://www.thecornellreview.org/black-history-month-truth-and-reconciliation/
Joel Klotz was in my freshman dorm. I knew he had been beaten, but didn’t know until recently that he had recovered and had graduated with his class.
https://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/?a=d&d=CDS19690407.2.11&srpos=4&e=——196-en-20–1–txt-txIN-klotz—-1969–
Then, as now, the leftist activist agitators lied, damaged, hoaxed, and escalated. Any concessions resulted in more demands.
If a military operation of a city, a siege would be in place, every student leaving would be arrested. There is x amount of food in the building, they will come out eventually.
Turn off all utilities.
Because you can bring lots of freeze-dried food with you. But it’s really unpalatable (and possibly dangerous) without water to rehydrate it.
At least in the 60’s the students actually had a stake in the situation as their was a draft and actual family members and friends were dying in Vietnam ; these cream puffs not only are violent thugs but they have no stake in the situation and no understanding of what’s going on. American are being tortured and held hostage and murdered in Gaza and they are actively cheering it on. No they are t the 60’s can’t we give peace a chance crowd more like the 70’s black panthers that wanted to burn it all down , violence for the sake of violence.
You summed it up nicely.
Not disagreeing with you, but seeing a rhyme with the 60s Marxist Seminaries and the 24 Marxist Seminaries.
It’s the same suspects protesting the Marxist’s opponent’s
M<ore like Auntie Fah and BeeYellEmm of a couple years ago.
Desruction for its own sake. Likee a bastart (no Father in his life) brat throwing a tantrum cuz sumbuddy dint give him his cookie in time.
This will continue until the price of admission and staying the course gets higher than the perceived benefit.
Great opportunity for the CA National Guard to get some urban clearing and POW detention camp training in.
Spot on. We’ll put.
IMO the buildings should be surrounded by police and occupants given one hour to leave. Anyone remaining should be arrested, prosecuted, expelled and fired, if an employee, and sued for damages caused. School officials handling it as described in the article should also be fired for cause.
In the days of Republican governors, what you were asking for would likely happen. That or variations on the theme. With someone like Gavin newsom in the state house, nothing is going to happen.
NO. They are already breaking the law and they know it. Their mere presence in this situation is a crime. Not to mention the vandalism and destruction, for which the warm bodies inside now need to be held to account.
CHP and Nat Guard. Surround and seal the building. Invite anyne who wants to bail now to come out, unharmed. Then arrest for basic charges and jail. Anyone refusing, cut the power. No light no heat will get uncomfortable quickly. I know that area, it gets pretty cold at night this time of year most years. No water, either. After 24 hours, bring in SWAT. Identify a smallish window and poke a teargas can through it. With the area sealed no one will escape. If they fire the building, bust in full SWAT, live rounds in the 30 rounders. Play hardball or this game will continue and everyone will lose.
If the Gabbling Nuisance begins to gabble about letting them have theyr way, ignore him. Those officers are sworn tp uphold the LAW. The Nuisance cannot lawfully set the law aside. HE is bound to uphold it, and him telling others to NOT do so violates HIS oath. Arrest HIM for felony perjury. Let HIM stew in the CroBar Hotel.
There are two options here: either END IT or get ready to endure years more of worse. Use Jeffersons method when he faced the Barbary Pirates off Africa’s North Coast in 1806. It only took another year and it was over, the pestilence subdued and behaving tolerably well for at least a few decades.
Send in the fleas, lice and fire ants.
Let us see how you deal with the reality of barbarianism.
I’m betting those are already there.
Just shows the school was an upscale kindergarten.
My prediction: “meetings” with the students, followed by a full capitulation by California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt.
“A dean at the school, Jeff Crane, suggested during the meeting that the university form a committee that would include students to do a deep dive into the school’s investments.”
Crux of the problem right here. Allegedly smart guy advocating using the problem to solve the problem.
Agree. Why should the inmates have a vote in the investments of the asylum? Their expertise (if any) would logically be limited to education and efficacy of the methods of instruction.
sorta like taking the crashed car and crashing it into something else to fix the first crash.
Need to find a new dean. One with brains AND integrity.
From Britannica concerning Mao’s Red Guard during China’s cultural revolution starting 1966: “(Mao) initially pursued these goals through a massive mobilization of the country’s urban youths. They were organized into groups called the Red Guards, and led by students such as Song Binbin. Mao ordered the party and the army not to suppress the movement.”
That is what’s happening here and now, except its focus is anti-zionist revolution.
Occupy Wall St., BLM, Antifa, covid, Hamas. Same energy. Nothing will happen to these ‘revolutionaries’ per usual.
They’re doing precisely what the deep sewer instructs them to do – and will only get worse between now and November 2024.
We are at war. Prepare accordingly.
“Mao ordered the party and the army not to suppress the movement.”
Yep. The Red Guards lasted until they were no longer useful to Mao, and when they became troublesome they were suppressed. These “protesters” have leeway until they become a threat to the power of the establishment (not by seizing power, but merely by being an embarrassment), and not one second after that.
except its focus is anti-zionist revolution
I’m going to say, not really. That’s just its excuse this year. It’s the exact same group of folks who gave us the Summer of Floyd. It’s simply a younger generation of the folks who gave us the 1968 Dem convention. But it’s the ideology that unites:anti-Western Civilization. Israel happens to be a good target for that, since it’s the only bit of true civilization in the Middle East. And America is the bigger target because we have somewhat resisted the call to tear it down in favor of the Marxist utopia. The anti-semitic stuff is just an excuse.
These “protests” are just organizing meetings for the resistance when Trump retakes the White House in January 2025. You know that the 2017 Antifa inauguration riots in DC will be nothing compared to what’s planned for next year. We will need the National Guard deployed to DC regardless of what idiot mayor Bowowzer says! Time to sweep the streets of trash!
Environmentalists banned the timber industry in Humbolt County, which got replaced by cannabis industry. The state of CA should shut down the college permanently for in class learning, nobody goes to class their anyway. It should become online college only.
*there anyway.
They’re not at their best when actually there.
In Humboldt, very few are ever at their best. Ever.
(I have a BiL there, who can’t really move. Ugh.)
Remember when the Feds shut down logging in National Forests to protect the spotted owl and only succeeded in creating areas with huge fuel loads that were wildfires waiting to happen? And the spotted owls didn’t recover because it was competition and inbreeding with non native barred owls that had migrated across the great plains using the shelter belt tree stands that FDR had ordered planted during the dust bowl.? So now the US government is going to pay to shoot approximately 50,000 barred owls to save the spotted owl….all while having destroyed mill towns and logging outfits resulting in suicides of multi generational loggers during the 1990’s? Yeah. Those brain trust ideas came from Humboldt forest grads because at Humboldt the only good forest crop was weed..
the silly spotted owl was merely a dummy at which to shoot money. They were claimed to ONLY be able to nest and breed in old growth, forest. Hah!! I have SEEN THEM nesting in the cross trees of the high tension transmission lines not far out of some towns. and in mature second growth even of non-native commercial species.
Tha whole false meme to “justify” ending timber production in the whole NorthWest was such a scam…….
It was not the envirofreaks, it was Uncle Stoopid. And it wasn’t JUST in Humboldt/DelNorte Counties. It was the entire Pacific Northwest. From about Santa Rosa north to Forks and Port Angeles, frim the Ocific Ocean all the way across the Cascades and even further in some places.
They wanted the economy to be OTHER than timber. Fishing grew, but nowhere near enough to replace timber.. Can hardly find a sticj of Doug Fir anywhere anymore, only the garbage whitewood imported from BC and it is lousey wood for framing. Nohere near as srong, does not hold nails well, and does not last.
Declare this academic year null and void, no refunds.
Assuming no illegal Biden bailout, let peer pressure do the work the admins refuse to do.
Useful idiots doing idiotic things.
They’ll be the first to get purged when the time comes. Cf. the ultimate fate of Mao’s Red Guard.
Arrest and expel. Deport any non-citizens. The school could shut this down immediately if the administration weren’t run by cowards.
Close California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt. The several buildings are trashed, the reputation is trashed, and the ability of any serious student to learn there has been trashed. The university is no longer of value to the community. Close it.
Sending the children home was a good move. But …
“A dean at the school, Jeff Crane, suggested during the meeting that the university form a committee that would include students to do a deep dive into the school’s investments. Crane also suggested faculty and students continue meeting every 24 hours to keep an open line of communication.”
This is extremely foolish. The school should direct police to disallow food deliveries to the occupied buildings. But it won’t.
Since this is a state school, Newsom should be protecting the school.
Jeez, never thought I would see the day that my hometown was in the news on L.I. What an embarrassment!
I live in the prettiest spot in the country, but I can’t wait to get out of here next year. So sad.
Oh no — the Temples of Progress being attacked by the Progressives!
Anyway…
Imagine if a group of pro-life students did this exact same thing to protest the genocide of innocent babies…. Shut down, removed and expelled in under 45 minutes I would guess
Which tells you where their values are oriented.