Ah, it's spring. Graduation has come and gone, academia is settling in for another bucolic summer, and students are staging sit-ins against the campus cafeteria. All we lack to make it a TotallySixties sort of event is the smell of the teargas, photos of nice carpets smeared in pig's blood and excrement, and Mom-n-Dad bailing Junior out of jail. (He's not a bad boy, just misunderstood, you know...)
A string of protests across the country against one of the predominant food services providers at colleges and universities has resulted in 50 arrests – so far. The arrests are part of what activists promise will be stepped-up focus on the company Sodexo.
Last week students at Ohio State University rallied on campus before moving into President Gordon Gee’s office, where seven were arrested after they refused to stop chanting (two non-students were arrested as well). They wanted the university to cut its contract with Sodexo, the company that hires and manages 124 of Ohio State’s 1,800 concessions employees at its stadium and events center.
Of course, driving this new round of youthful high spirits are our Marxist friends at SEIU.
OldSouth is just shocked, gobsmacked...
So the university administration has to calculate:
Lessee--The White House and SEIU are, shall we say, on good terms. Himself is their homeboy, actually. We've got people threatening property and bodily harm if we don't cave. But if we do cave, those goons will be all over our ass, and anyone we may let a service contract to--they'll unionize the whole place! We don't have the money for that operational model. The donors will turn tail, and no family wants to to send a student to a place that might go on strike during the next four years.
(Nice little campus you got here at Ohio State/Emory/U of Washington, etc...It'd be a shame if someone were to come here and BURN IT DOWN! Don't-chew think so boys? Yeah, boss, it'd be a cryin' shame...)
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