You know, at some of the really small colleges, I can understand why the universities don't just boot them right away. School of 5,000 students, and you get 150 protesting, that's 2% of your students. I'd say that's acceptable losses, but that's me. And probably a lot of you.
At Ohio State, it's a different ball game. There, 150 students is 0.3% of the student body. The university has billions in endowments and holdings. It probably makes more in licensed product sales than it does in tuition. They can tell these 150 kids to go home, actually stand by that, and not even blink a financial eye at the loss of tuition dollars.
Now, on for a rant. On one hand, I'm glad to see young people care about more than themselves, and who want a better world. But in cases like this, I'm wondering WTF. School investments make money. Money that is used to build better facilities, pay staff and faculty, and in the long run give students a better life at a lower cost. Short of the school investing in child slave labor, maybe these students should get over themselves and actually worry about, of I don't know, going to class. And, I also gotta say that I find it highly amusing that in addition to demanding financial records (which are public records under Ohio law...it is a public university), the idea that they are demanding the school pay them an expert to help them understand it all is funny as hell. Can't walk their sorry butts over to the business school and find a student to help them read an investment portfolio? Or maybe the students in the business school are too busy actually going to class to worry about this crap.
