Vanderbilt U. Students ‘Occupy’ Chancellor’s Office After Administration Pulls Israel Divestment Question From Student Ballot
“student-led effort to pass a resolution proposing Vanderbilt Student Government adopt boycott, divestment and sanctions tactics did not move forward because of potential conflict with federal and state laws”
Students at the elite, private, Vanderbilt University in Tennessee were outraged after the school’s administration removed a question about divesting from Israel (BDS) from a student government vote this week.
Protesters responded by ‘occupying’ the chancellor’s office.
The Tennessean reports:
Vanderbilt faces backlash after pulling Israel-divestment vote from student ballot
Vanderbilt University students are protesting Tuesday after an amendment to the Vanderbilt Student Government Constitution, which would prevent student government funds from going to certain businesses that support Israel, was removed by administration officials from a student ballot in late March.
Nearly 30 students crammed into the halls of Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier’s office to hold a sit-in, along with over 30 more students on the steps outside, despite threats of suspension and possible removal from the building.
The student amendment, which garnered over 600 signatures — well above the required amount to be put on the student ballot — followed guidelines from the national Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement to prohibit the spending of funds on businesses deemed “complicit” in Israel’s post-1967 occupation of part of Palestine.
It was proposed by Vanderbilt’s Divest Coalition, a conglomeration of around 20 student organizations and over 1,000 students.
Vanderbilt administration told The Tennessean in a recent statement that the “student-led effort to pass a resolution proposing Vanderbilt Student Government adopt boycott, divestment and sanctions tactics did not move forward because of potential conflict with federal and state laws.”
Watch below as these privileged (and masked) brats insult a black police officer for not indulging them.
NEW: Protestors occupying the chancellor's office at Vanderbilt try to shame a black police officer:
"You are black in America, and you're NOT standing with the marginalized people of the world. What does that make you?!" pic.twitter.com/4aPCGXUSVR
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) March 26, 2024
The Vanderbilt student newspaper, the Vanderbilt Hustler, describes conditions inside the protest:
Student protestors inside Kirkland Hall told The Hustler that they are not being allowed to have food or medicine brought to them or use the restroom, leading people to urinate in bottles. A student protester inside Kirkland Hall granted anonymity for protection from retribution said they fear legal trouble for public indecency if they were to pee in a bottle.
Water and food from Panera Bread were taken inside the building around 6 p.m. CDT, which student protesters said were given to police officers on the premises.
During an Instagram Live hosted around 6:30 p.m. CDT, one protestor described that they have needed to urinate “for at least five of the nine hours” that protesters have been inside. They stated that a VUPD officer told them that they would only be allowed to use the restroom if they agreed to be escorted out of the building. The protester stated that they are prone to urinary tract infections and kidney infections and, thus, are especially worried about their health.
At approximately 7:45 p.m. CDT, student protestors stated that one protestor was experiencing early symptoms of toxic shock syndrome such as pain, nausea and fever symptoms. The person decided to remove their tampon during the sit-in. Students report feeling sick, dehydrated and nauseous.
People on Twitter/X are not impressed.
Couple of common denominators among folks who have this inherent drive to “stand with the marginalized”:
1. They can’t find any real virtue in their lives, so they need to create some
2. They’ve never been tight with any of those “marginalized people” https://t.co/MpgCTql4Hh
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) March 26, 2024
said the white trust fund kid with the mask and argyle socks ✊🏻 https://t.co/ZJSF1iRRN1
— Sean Agnew (@seanagnew) March 26, 2024
Privileged white kids tell Black man how he should think and act. Brilliant https://t.co/UC57tiWAvQ
— Rhyen Staley (@RhyenStaley) March 26, 2024
The sticker cost of Vanderbilt is $84,412.
There is something quite delicious about a bunch of privileged college students instructing the officer about the right way to be Black. https://t.co/GGGk0uKvSy
— Andy Grewal (@ProfGrewal) March 26, 2024
Fun Fact: Vanderbilt tuition, housing, food, books and fees is $89,590 a year, according to the school itself. Wanna bet these same kids are going to demand their student loans are forgiven in a few years!? 🤪 pic.twitter.com/mIAC0aAj7k
— BlueyAnon 去操你自己 (@BlueyAnon) March 26, 2024
These students think they’re being so virtuous. In reality, they’re just pathetic.
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Students wearing masks –
A top tier school with really stupid students
super stupid students
Vandy is woke joke nowadays. smh
They look like real tough guys. Maybe they should go to Gaza and help out their terrorist friends, Maybe even talk up LGBTQ+ ideology and DEI while they are there.
Or Sudan
Or Ukraine
Or Afghanistan where females can be stoned to death but can no longer attend school
Where DO these colleges fiiind these kids
smh
let ’em have a whiff of the tear gas.
Yeah, grape shot inside an office is really overdoing it, and a HUGE cleanup bill.
Or a “love tap” with a baton.
The masks aren’t to do with covid, they are recognition signals which identify agenda while concealing personal identity.
All you have to do is look and see the masks to know what kind of idiots you’re dealing with, especially as they happen to be members of the least at-risk group for a disease that no longer registers as a realistic threat.
Note to brain washed future occupiers—occupy a bathroom while you are at it.
It’s all about style and not substance with these kids. They just want to look good on social media and play the part of the righteous people on “the right side of history.” You know the same history they know absolutely nothing about and would require them engage in actual complex thought processes. I remember explaining to gen z school counselor intern I had a few years ago that Biden couldn’t make us all wear masks since that’s not the purview of the executive branch and this child with her bachelors degree program from USF saying to me “what’s the executive branch ?” Yup but I’m the dumbo because I refused to wear one at my job for 2 years despite the school board declaring it mandatory against the governor executive order that it had to be optional. But hey who needs to know about separation of powers anyway let’s just scream, chant and yell and feel righteous because we had to hold our pre for a few hours. It’s great to be a college student not so great to be a working shlub.
“Anyone who does not vacate will be expelled.”
Of course that won’t happen.
The masks are more likely to keep their faces directly off video rather than any kind of Covid protocols. There doesn’t seem to be a mask mandate noted on the “health and safety” webpages for the University; at least not that I found.
It would be nice if more of these toddlers with trust funds cared more about the USA border war than a border war 6,000 miles away.
The students have been removed. Some suspended, some arrested. That’s better than most universities have managed to do.
It will be interesting to see if the leftist activists will escalate.
I think RedState said 15 or so had been expelled.
That is certainly not what I expected any university but maybe Hillsdale to do.
Good on them for expelling the law-breakers. Those children may learn something from their (short) time at Vandy after all.
Why don’t they clamor for BDS of muzzie nations with terrible records on human rights?
Selective outrage much?
The protester stated that they are prone to urinary tract infections and
kidney infections and, thus, are especially worried about their health….they fear legal trouble for public indecency if they were to pee in a bottle.
…student protestors stated that one protestor was experiencing early symptoms of toxic shock syndrome such as pain, nausea and fever symptoms. The person decided to remove their tampon during the sit-in. Students report feeling sick, dehydrated and nauseous.
Well, now we know who we’re dealing with anyhow.
Tough kids, I tell ya.
“they fear legal trouble for public indecency if they were to pee in a bottle.”
But not the legal trouble for breaking and entering, trespassing, disorderly conduct, etc., etc.?
And if you’re starting into Toxic Shock, you can’t arrest it immediately by putting in a new tampon. I’m guessing most adult women of a certain age could tell her that. But she’s either lying or more ignorant than a pig. (Yes, embrace the power of ‘and’.)
She’s dramatizing for more attention on top of dramatizing for attention.
Toxic shock? Highly doubt it. They looked that one up on the internet and listed the symptoms like a Wikipedia entry. Toxic shock is rare, and usually requires a specific strain of either Streptococcal or Staphylococcal species producing the correct toxins. They are not commonly encountered in a University Chancellor’s office.
OMG, pro-tip where a sanitary pad to your next anti-semetic sit in hate fest, and all will be well! Toxic shock can happen if a tampon is left in for an extremely long time, but is immediately resolved upon removal of said tampon. The 911 call is so precious. The raped and tortured Israeli women being held in Gaza can’t just go to a bathroom and fix all their imaginary problems like this Keffiyah Karen.
If you have a college age kid, these protestor types are going to be the politicians, judges, prosecutors, police chiefs, administrators, bankers, and business leaders of his world.
Maybe. Maybe they will just become professional whiners.
Sounds like an insurrection. Expel them all.
Geez, I thought they were protesting because their baseball team got swept by my Gamecocks.
“And we demand that only soy milk be served in the cafeteria! And tofu not meat!”
This what the vile, evil and stupid Dhimmi-crat/dhimmi ideology produces — useful idiot, moronic, narcissistic, virtue-signaling twits who gleefully align themselves with the most intrinsically and unabashedly supremacist, totalitarian, misogynistic, fascistic, intolerant, hate-filled, pathology-laden and anti-democratic ideology on planet Earth.
Upvote just for the lists of adjectives. 😉
Thank you. Just reciting what is objectively factual, regarding the traits of the wretched ide0logy of “Submission.”
When the time comes, the non-believers amongst them will be raped and slaughtered.
There were like-minded peaceniks amongst those slaughtered on October 7
smh
Start identifying them and cancelling their state funded scholarships and grants.
Then lets see if they still feel froggy.
Vandy is a private University. As I recall the University has very generous financial aid basically offering free tuition to the undergraduate students it accepts (very selective) with a family income less than $150 K.
I loved the bit where they sent Panera food in for the cops and made sure the occupiers didn’t get any. And I’m sure the cops were all professional enough not to stand in a doorway eating and taunting them with “Just come out and you can have my sandwich; mmmmmmm!”
I’m liking Vanderbilt after this.
It seems ~60 students were involved. What are the chances they shared the same Prof? A Pied Piper of the young, ignorant, and desperate to be cool?
Odd are close to 100%. These students are ignorant, naive and easily manipulated, and the social justice warrior professors with their pseudo-scholarship know this well. The professor will have zero consequences (except probably get some teaching award –who knows?) and likely neither will the students.
On the bright side, the expelled won’t have to shell out $80,000 per annum any more,
and they won’t have to wonder for the rest of their lives why/how it ever seemed to make sense to spend that kind of money
Nicely showing the world that college kids are stupid. After a bit we may vrealize we do not need to hie college grads after all.