Meanwhile on the International front....

But the ones at Columbia or Yale or Harvard or MIT or Emerson very well might've.

The only protests you've heard much about are at Ivy-type places, where the student demo as we know is very different than a large state school.

 

FF 20 years or so and one of these protestors will be up for a Presidential appointment and it will be blocked/pulled when they are discovered to have participated in this.

 

U.S. campuses erupt in protest, hundreds arrested

Encampments popped up at U.C. Berkeley, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Rochester, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Emerson College, Tufts University, the New School, University of Michigan, the University of New Mexico and others, according to activists, local media reports and student news outlets.

 

UC Berkeley, MIT, Emerson and Tufts are four of the first six universities listed. Michigan is pretty close to that realm. I'm not saying they're not happening at Winona State, just that the tier 1 schools are the ones getting the most attention.

 

They get the most early attention because that's usually where these cultural/political protests begin. As was the case in the 1960s and thereafter.

They'll spread. Cal Poly Humboldt, for example.

But sometimes it's just easier to pigeonhole the "elites."

Kids at Iowa were out there last November.

I don't remember as much handwringing at the time.

 

In 60 years they'll be running for president.

IIRC they only made it about 6 yards and had to punt.

 

I'm curious about the numbers involved in some of these protests. I saw one estimate of the crowd at the University of Pittsburgh being about 100 people, some of whom were supporting Israel. It wasn't all students, either.

 

Me too. I think the habit - as is the case with the conflict itself - is over-report some of the numbers and under-report others.

Not seeing much coverage of events like this: ‘Not like other Passovers’: hundreds of Jewish demonstrators arrested after New York protest seder

 

Instead, we get this

 

UT Austin

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/24/ut-austin-israel-hamas-war-palestine-student-arrests/

 

Ohio State

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news...campus-protest-arrest-osu-police/73430986007/

 

If it weren’t for college football, conservatives would happily demolish every school more rigorous than Fudd County Vo-Tech, so rattling off a bunch of public unis ain’t changing minds.