New School President Chased Down by Students
Protesting New School students heightened their overnight protest on Thursday and ended up in a foot chase with President Bob Kerrey. The New York Times writes:
A little after 11:30 p.m., Mr. Kerrey emerged from a university building on Fifth Avenue south of 14th Street to a sea of a few hundred protesters chanting for his resignation. As Mr. Kerrey walked down Fifth Avenue toward 12th Street, about 30 protesters began following him, some of them shouting insults.
As the crowd's pace quickened, so did Mr. Kerrey's. Then, Mr. Kerrey, who lost a part of his leg in Vietnam and wears a prosthesis, broke into a run. The protesters gave chase. Mr. Kerrey turned left on a cross street and ducked into a brownstone.
At some point in the confrontation, a protester threw a tomato at Mr. Kerrey.
The demonstration began Wednesday evening. The students have demanded the ouster of Kerrey and a number of other top officials. Kerrey, a former U.S. senator, has been criticized over his management style, his nonacademic background, and turnover in the New School's provost office.
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Liberals
They all suck, they think they are the intellectuals but I have yet seen anyone onf them do anything that benefited the greater good for a long time, if liberals ran the world we would all be wearing burlap robes, drinking goats milk and eating tofu salads. As a African Cuban from Brooklyn I have seen their anger over anything they do not collectively agree with. They will soon feel the wrath of the majority who do not like their kind of liberalism and drive them first out of brooklyn, then out of NY.....My NY
Moonbeam
Chasing him throwing tomatoes ?
Why in the heck didn't we think of that ?!?!?!
Bob "moonbeam" Kerry was chased from our state by the voters - your way sounds a lot more fun !!!!!!
How bright can an individual be to start a new family at the age of 60 PLUS ?!?!?!?
All that this shows is his tremendous ego of himself.
RE:
"Maybe Bob should just come back to a his home state"
Good riddance = please keep him - we don't want him back !
Kerrey going home
I believe that seeing President Kerrey return to his glorious home state of Nebraska falls in line with the message of the student occupation, Ben! Thank you for the suggestion...next time rather than chanting "Resign," perhaps we will chant "Go Home!"
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