tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post2210592332941835348..comments2024-03-28T13:07:39.342-04:00Comments on EV Grieve: Students for a Free Cooper Union call for press conference this afternoonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-14899780614927763152012-12-06T23:30:18.805-05:002012-12-06T23:30:18.805-05:00The founders of the school had a mission to provid...The founders of the school had a mission to provide free tuition. This school is simply mismanaged. Have you seen that new building- was it necessary if they had no money? <br />They surely have other options, but are taking the easy, greedy way out- ending an 110 year tradition because of laziness and lack of creative solutions. <br />This is not NYU or Harvard- this is a school that is famous for being free to those who make the cut, just as scholarships are free to those who make the cut. <br />Free Coooper Union! Solidarity!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-8637116700281354032012-12-06T23:07:58.252-05:002012-12-06T23:07:58.252-05:00@GD27
The school gives full scholarships to every...@GD27<br /><br />The school gives full scholarships to every student, which is very different from it being a "charity."<br /><br />Every student goes through an arduous application process, and estimates put acceptance rates at around 7%, challenging Harvard's acceptance rates.<br /><br />$300,000 has been pledged through alumni and CU associated fundraising efforts-- if the school remains tuition free.<br /><br />But relying on alumni donations alone is unsustainable.<br /><br />Most of the issue lies in some very bad decisions made by past administration... which chose to satisfy personal greed over maintaining the ideology of the school.<br /><br />So now the students are being punished for the mistakes and greed of a few...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-81623270827139021432012-12-06T23:04:08.165-05:002012-12-06T23:04:08.165-05:00@blue glass
Cooper sold that property on astor pl...@blue glass<br /><br />Cooper sold that property on astor place. That building has nothing to do with Cooper Union.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-52363672723606219122012-12-05T08:39:53.034-05:002012-12-05T08:39:53.034-05:00Free education the Utopian dream but then again al...Free education the Utopian dream but then again all dreams come to an end. There are generous student loan programs and of course "working". I had the "GI Bill" of the Vietnam era it paid next to nothing I did it with student loans and loading trucks at UPS on the night shift. I saved for six months to afford my class ring which I still wear with pride. There is something to be said for If its worth having it's worth working for. Our you could ask your parents for a loan now that's a 1 per center solution Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-69835766344033315912012-12-04T23:19:19.659-05:002012-12-04T23:19:19.659-05:00Ah yes, Occupy.Ah yes, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqxA9LMa_0c" rel="nofollow">Occupy</a>.Big Brothernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-12312885278969302722012-12-04T14:09:38.320-05:002012-12-04T14:09:38.320-05:00The comments on the Cooper Union protest really pu...The comments on the Cooper Union protest really put other comments on this board in a different context for me. <br /><br />I was always under the impression that the virulent opposition to the B&T folks, the "fratty douches", etc... was because of a desire, in large part, to preserve the progressive, leading edge (in the arts, philosophy and social activism) mentality of the community. But rather it seems that it is just because some of these posters are curmudgeons, who just want to hate something, anything. It's very unbecoming and, honestly, not altogether surprising.<br /><br />It is hard to tell how much overlap there is between these two posting groups because how the posting system works (as I also post as "Anonymous"), but it is interesting nonetheless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-61451263567584473752012-12-04T11:30:29.307-05:002012-12-04T11:30:29.307-05:00Some of the students that are part of this Occupat...Some of the students that are part of this Occupation have been doing hurricane relief work with Occupy unlike I am sure people who call them "little shits". Bet you Yuppie right wing jerkoffs never thought of doing things like that. A Class War is coming Yuppie Scum .. Choose your side and keep your powder dry.john penleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06546048103371918505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-42607436450989401402012-12-04T10:55:43.367-05:002012-12-04T10:55:43.367-05:00they could sell some of their real estate holdings...they could sell some of their real estate holdings including the house on stuyvesant street that the give as a deans residence.<br />they replaced their bowery engineering building with a monstrosity.<br />they own the land under bowery bar and the chrysler building.<br />they are building a gigantic AWFUL building on astor place, on city land that they pay NOTHING for. <br />why shouldn't they be required to live up to their founding mandate of free quality education?<br /><br />blue glassnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-57642793384866453442012-12-04T10:27:32.806-05:002012-12-04T10:27:32.806-05:00What a joke. The school isn't a charity .. if ...What a joke. The school isn't a charity .. if the endowment can't keep up with student costs they are going to have to start charging tuition or shut down. Either get active in encouraging alumni to donate more to preserve the ideological model of a "tuition-less" school, raise the money yourselves, or stop complaining. GD27noreply@blogger.com