[Kosh]

You get expelled.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/01/11/valdosta

T. Hayden Barnes opposed his university’s plan to build two large parking garages with $30 million from students’ mandatory fees. So last spring, he did what any student activist would do: He posted fliers criticizing the plan, wrote mass e-mails to students, sent letters to administrators and wrote a letter to the editor of the campus newspaper. While that kind of campaign might be enough to annoy university officials, Barnes never thought it would get him expelled.

Rather than ignore him or set up a meeting with concerned students, Valdosta State University, in Georgia, informed Barnes, then a sophomore, that he had been “administratively withdrawn” effective May 7, 2007. In a letter apparently slipped under his dorm room door, Ronald Zaccari, the university’s president, wrote that he “present[ed] a clear and present danger to this campus” and referred to the “attached threatening document,” a printout of an image from an album on Barnes’s Facebook profile. The collage featured a picture of a parking garage, a photo of Zaccari, a bulldozer, the words “No Blood for Oil” and the title “S.A.V.E.-Zaccari Memorial Parking Garage,” a reference to a campus environmental group and Barnes’s contention that the president sought to make the structures part of his legacy at the university.

The letter also said that in order to return as a student, a non-university psychiatrist would have to certify that Barnes was not a threat to himself or anyone else, and that he would receive “on-going therapy.” After he appealed, with endorsements from a psychiatrist and a professor, the Georgia Board of Regents “didn’t do the right thing and reverse the expulsion,” said William Creeley, a senior program officer at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonprofit organization that defends students’ free expression rights and helped Barnes secure legal counsel

 

[Corsair]

As opposed to this kid, who is still apparently on campus:

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2007/12/14/news/19744.shtml

http://www.ivygateblog.com/blog/2008/01/the_anscombe_affair_part_vi_the_cameo.html

[Rictor]

You've got to nip student activism in the bud, or else you got the 60s al over again. Smelly hippies...ewww.

[CP5670]

As opposed to this kid, who is still apparently on campus:

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2007/12/14/news/19744.shtml

http://www.ivygateblog.com/blog/2008/01/the_anscombe_affair_part_vi_the_cameo.html

I heard about this a while ago. Always comforting to know that we have lunatics in close proximity here. I go to that Frist building regularly for lunch.

I probably have more sympathy with the officials in the original case considering that parking is a daily problem over here even when you have a permit, and the tiny parking lots they have within the campus seem to be the cause.

[WMCoolmon]

Campus parking seems to be a constant problem at every campus I've been to. I've been trying to come up with a way to increase parking efficiency and become a billionaire from the patents, but so far no luck.

[Shade]

Bicycles. Well, it probably won't do much to make you a billionaire, but it'll help parking, not to mention keep people healthy

[vyper]

Oh can that ****e. No one _wants_ to cycle to uni unless they've got delusions of moral superiority.

[captain-custard]

Bicycles. Well, it probably won't do much to make you a billionaire, but it'll help parking, not to mention keep people healthy

do they come with v8 400hp motors, if not it will never work this bicycle idea

Oh can that ****e. No one _wants_ to cycle to uni unless they've got delusions of moral superiority.

moral superiority , or just u cant get laid "in"  a bicycle,


i would just go for parking charges by the  inch square that way there would be more parking space as ppl change there huge cars for smaller  ones


 

[Shade]

Oh can that ****e. No one _wants_ to cycle to uni unless they've got delusions of moral superiority.

Damn near everyone who lives within 10km of it does around here, and most of the rest use public transport. I don't see why people frown on them so, you completely bypass all traffic jams and parking problems which, at least where I live, can more often than not let you beat a car there. Plus, there's no skyrocketing gas price to worry about (which any impoverished student will recognise as being rather useful), you stay in good shape to impress the chicks (even more useful), and, yes, you can even go around feeling morally superior

[Nuke]

are you guys trying to say that the mentally unstable do not deserve an education?

[Shade]

Absolutely. Sending em to the marine corps so they can learn to kill makes much more sense

[captain-custard]

Absolutely. Sending em to the marine corps so they can learn to kill makes much more sense

perfect solution


maines invade another country and turn it into a huge multi story parking

 

[Kosh]

moral superiority , or just u cant get laid "in"  a bicycle,

Better yet, you can **** a bike

[Mefustae]

moral superiority , or just u cant get laid "in"  a bicycle,

Better yet, you can **** a bike

I swear to God, this is the second time in as many weeks that having sex with bicycles has come up. Nice work, lads!

[Shade]

Well, according to the linked article, even pavements are apparently an option to some people. Which I suppose brings us nicely back to the whole 'mentally unstable' thing.

[NGTM-1R]

Campus parking seems to be a constant problem at every campus I've been to. I've been trying to come up with a way to increase parking efficiency and become a billionaire from the patents, but so far no luck.

Not here. 'cept for the fact that we have to share it with cop academy, and they need space to drive around.

[CP5670]

Campus parking seems to be a constant problem at every campus I've been to. I've been trying to come up with a way to increase parking efficiency and become a billionaire from the patents, but so far no luck.

In my case, there is a small parking lot (maybe 50 spaces) near the buildings I frequent, but it tends to get filled up after 10:00, so if you don't get there in time your only option is the metered spots along the roads at a hefty $1.25 per hour. There is one larger lot a bit further that is always full, and a much larger one outside the campus limits that is too far away to be useful. They have a shuttle running from there but that adds a good 15 or 20 minutes to the whole commute.

A bicycle would not be practical for me. It's a short drive but not quite in biking distance (and I don't want to live on the campus as the Princeton graduate dorms are bad even by dorm standards ), and I need to keep a car anyway in order to go anywhere else.

[captain-custard]

Campus parking seems to be a constant problem at every campus I've been to. I've been trying to come up with a way to increase parking efficiency and become a billionaire from the patents, but so far no luck.

In my case, there is a small parking lot (maybe 50 spaces) near the buildings I frequent, but it tends to get filled up after 10:00, so if you don't get there in time your only option is the metered spots along the roads at a hefty $1.25 per hour. There is one larger lot a bit further that is always full, and a much larger one outside the campus limits that is too far away to be useful. They have a shuttle running from there but that adds a good 15 or 20 minutes to the whole commute.

A bicycle would not be practical for me. It's a short drive but not quite in biking distance (and I don't want to live on the campus as the Princeton graduate dorms are bad even by dorm standards ), and I need to keep a car anyway in order to go anywhere else.

how about u fit a bikerak to ur car or ask the campus to create a park n bike system for the parking thats to far away ?

[MP-Ryan]

Time to find a new university where the administration isn't bat**** insane.

[vyper]

Oh can that ****e. No one _wants_ to cycle to uni unless they've got delusions of moral superiority.

Damn near everyone who lives within 10km of it does around here, and most of the rest use public transport. I don't see why people frown on them so, you completely bypass all traffic jams and parking problems which, at least where I live, can more often than not let you beat a car there. Plus, there's no skyrocketing gas price to worry about (which any impoverished student will recognise as being rather useful), you stay in good shape to impress the chicks (even more useful), and, yes, you can even go around feeling morally superior

You cannot pump said chicks on the back of the bike. Also, you're more likely to die if you crash into something. Odds are you'll also get mucky on rainy days.

Have I mentioned you'll also look poor?

Two words: Smart Car.