Ike-Related Power Outages Prompt Student Sit-in

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man, critical people.
Unfortunately for people in the "real world" you don't really realize how important computers are on our campus. And guess what? When you don't have power guess what you don't have access to? That's right, I forgot, you guys probably work in places that don't require any technical expertise and can work without power.(Digging ditches!) I mean, I understand the argument if the classes were book based classes that didn't require power, but it's unlikely that for me, a computer science student, to really learn a ton about a computer, without one.
and sorry about the alarm clock, but most people don't use wind-ups anymore. . .
basically all I'm really trying to say is, stop being pricks because of some broad judgments based on a schools prior reputation. It's as idiotic as racism. . . only sounds more like "ageism" + sexism. 1000/17,000 . . . yeah, that's I dunno, a pretty high overestimate of those actually protesting.. and that's what.. a little over 5% of the population?
Get real. Maybe instead of being dickfishs, I dunno, offer to help those fellow humans in need? College students are people too, with real refrigerators, filled with real food, that was bought with real money, that is now in the garbage. Not all of whom have money.
Oh yeah, and I forgot, you also know nothing about our campus! The sorority girls (who notoriously have the miami girl prissy appeal) Were the ones WITH power. (Since they are forced to live on campus...) Maybe had you known that you wouldn't go ape on those protesters. Guess what, there are still people without power, you don't see these people still protesting? Approximately 10% of the people who go to school here still don't have power.. and that's a modest estimate.
I'm not going to defend the stupid people that didn't even realize that the protest was in vain because the president wasn't even on campus... But the problem is that you people think that all college students are drunken idiots, and that's just a flat lie. I hate stupid generalizations.

miamiU rep of OH 1:27PM September 18, 2008

Can't set your cell phone to wake you up in time for your 11:00 class? Can't blowdry the hair? Not enough light in the bathroom to get the eyeliner on symmetrically? Laptop dry, and no way to take notes? Oh, what terrible hardship. Certainly classes should be cancelled, it's inconceivable to think that learning can occur under such savagely brutal circumstances.
Miami students live up to their mollycoddled notoriety. Way to go, weenies!

Ellen of OH 10:03PM September 17, 2008

These wussies will get a real surprise when in the real world their boss won't give them the day off just because the lights went out.
You don't need lights to dig a ditch.

life in the real world of CA 9:50PM September 17, 2008

Go Bellarmine! Big things are happening there, and not just the power outage.

Ernie Muppet of IN 9:42PM September 17, 2008

More like a nation of critical people who lack initiative to do anything about the whining babies by raising their kids properly and having a priority to better educate and care for the younger generation.
I did not necessarily agree with a protest, cause it doesn't get anything done, especially in this situation, but we really had nothing better to do since we didn't have power. Had the students not gone into the streets, it wouldn't have been an issue with the police, but whatever, doesn't make me feel to great about my university. But, there was validity to the reason for the protest, just not the method.
If people didn't want to go to class, why didn't they just not go to class instead of costing the county $46,000.
-miami university student.

johnny of OH 8:43PM September 17, 2008

*poke* Ahem... how do you propose to jump onto an object without making noise (seeing as I'd be paying attention to sounds)? Also, you assume the object is at a size that you'd be able to jump onto it. One example that this jumping plan would fail is if my back were to a building. Haha. Good luck jumping onto a building. So, basically, I have put you into a position where you are forced to come at me while in my field of vision. I have limited your options. You see, people can honestly do ANYTHING. However, there are only so many useful things they can do. So, it's best to choose actions that limit the opponent's useful choices. If you limit their choices, they become much more predictable. Basically, you let them do anything useless, and use it to your advantage. You limit anything useful they can do and plan a counter action by reading what they'll do beforehand. If you are good at this, you can even prevent an enemy from doing anything useful at all (have fun trying to get that good). Anyway... have you noticed what you have been doing? You have just come up with a few plans in this short conversation.

Michael Guilford of OH 8:33PM September 17, 2008