# Anti-War protestors barred me from class! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 5, 2003, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-war-protestors-barred-me-from-class/159365 "2003-03-05T23:22:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-war-protestors-barred-me-from-class/159365/41 "2003-03-06T15:55:31Z")
Oh come on astorian, it’s _womyn’s_ studies. Michael Ellis, History Major ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-war-protestors-barred-me-from-class/159365/42 "2003-03-06T16:06:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Michael Ellis \* > \*\*Oh come on astorian, it’s _womyn’s_ studies. > Michael Ellis, History Major \*\* Ah, so that’s what I did wrong. ---
**Author:** ![yme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/35a633/32.png) [@yme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yme)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-war-protestors-barred-me-from-class/159365/43 "2003-03-06T16:44:08Z")
The day protestors deny my right to go get an education is the day I park in front of them, and burn the fuck outta’ some rubber. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-war-protestors-barred-me-from-class/159365/44 "2003-03-06T16:44:34Z")
Damn. I didn’t have class this week. Silly spring break. Of course, it’s not really spring break if you have to work through it… It’d be interesting to see what would have happened. Then again, I’ve never had anyone try to block me in that way before. It’s not that I’m really that big or anything, but I do look pretty intense when I’m annoyed. I get the feeling that the main attraction of these sorts of rallies is that it caters to people who really don’t want to go to class anyway. If they can massage their egos while doing it, so much the better.\* - This last paragraph was inserted to make this a Pit-worthy post. Damn. Fuck. Felch. Hell. Goshdarnit. ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-war-protestors-barred-me-from-class/159365/45 "2003-03-06T18:28:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ogre \* > **If I pay for the classes, if they are _keeping me_ from doing something I _want_ to be doing, that I _paid_ to do, they can take their fucking picket line and shove it up their fucking asses - I don’t care if it was a Students Against Puppy-Stomping rally.** Dude, you do _not_ want to fuck with SAPS!:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-war-protestors-barred-me-from-class/159365/46 "2003-03-06T19:08:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Skillet38 \* > \*\*where are the Hell’s Angels when you need them ? > > :rolleyes: \*\* Oh yeah… Altamont was WICKEDLY FUNNY. :wally ---
**Author:** ![SLASH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@SLASH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SLASH)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-war-protestors-barred-me-from-class/159365/47 "2003-03-06T20:20:18Z")
Didn’t happen at my school as far as I know. And if it did, I wouldn’t care as long as they didn’t try to keep me from going to class. If they did, there’d be a few battered protestors lying in their own blood. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-war-protestors-barred-me-from-class/159365/48 "2003-03-07T02:00:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by asterion \* > \*\* > A few weeks ago, my school had a “civic engagement week.” Apparently, part of this took place in our science building. I don’t know why it had to be there; the humanities have two perfectly good buildings of their own plus the building with the food, mail, etc. at their disposal. Lemme tell you what these idiots did. They walked into our _labs_, erased data and other things on various boards that people were working on, and wrote crap that was supposed to be “thought-provoking”, I guess, like “x amount of college students didn’t vote. Are you one of them?” and crap like that. \*\* :eek: :eek: :eek: Still. I think it would be just as ironic if business majors were “protesting”. “Yeah, I’m gonna go into the corporate world, join the system, and step on other people on my way up to making 600K a year…but man, have you seen those humanities chicks? I bet I could talk them into getting naked for peace!” ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-war-protestors-barred-me-from-class/159365/49 "2003-03-07T02:31:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cessandra \* > \*\*Giving someone a black eye is neither kicking tires nor dropping bombs, and yet all three acts are still violent. :rolleyes: back at ya. \*\* No, kicking tires is not violence, because you are attacking an object, not another person. ---
**Author:** ![Venoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@Venoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Venoma)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-war-protestors-barred-me-from-class/159365/50 "2003-03-07T02:34:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by friedo \* > \*\*I’ve always been fantastically amused by the concept of a student “strike.” Here are a bunch of kids whose family and/or government are paying for their education, who decide they don’t like something, so they deny it to themselves. > \*\* FTR and slightly offtopic, my younger brother is in his 3rd year of university and has paid for it all (including his apartment) by working on drill rigs in the summertime. Just so you don’t think all students are on a free ride. Actually, I’m pretty sure that most of them aren’t on a free ride. Most of them will be repaying student loans for years to come. Agreed, though, the thought of depriving yourself for something you already paid for is kinda… dumb. ---
**Author:** ![ScoobyTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@ScoobyTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScoobyTX)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-war-protestors-barred-me-from-class/159365/51 "2003-03-07T02:45:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dr. Rieux \* > \*\*No, kicking tires is not violence, because you are attacking an object, not another person. \*\* :dubious: Dropping bombs on bridges, power plants and airfields is not violence, because you are attacking objects, not people. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-war-protestors-barred-me-from-class/159365/52 "2003-03-07T02:46:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \* > \*\*:eek: :eek: :eek: > > Still. I think it would be just as ironic if business majors were “protesting”. “Yeah, I’m gonna go into the corporate world, join the system, and step on other people on my way up to making 600K a year…but man, have you seen those humanities chicks? I bet I could talk them into getting naked for peace!” \*\* What I really love are those anti-globalization protesters. It’s like, first answer these questions: How did you get there? Who’s paying for school? Where does that money come from? Where did those clothes come from? Are you drinking that Starbucks? And so on and so forth. Actually, my class got berated once by my Anal Chem professor for not being out there protesting (ignoring the fact that there never is anyone out there protesting at my school to begin with.) I think we were all thinking, “Hey, we’ve got to pass this class; we’re here at 8 AM for this lecture and you’re telling us we should skip it?” I’ve yet to figure out his line of logic in this case. Anyway, I stand by my generalization that it’s the humanities majors (especially the really soft disciplines) that are out there doing the ineffectual protesting while all the science majors want to do is get to class or lab. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-war-protestors-barred-me-from-class/159365/53 "2003-03-07T03:20:06Z")
**asterion** : What’s Anal Chem? Analytical Chemistry? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-war-protestors-barred-me-from-class/159365/54 "2003-03-07T05:04:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Who’s paying for school? > Where does that money come from? > Where did those clothes come from? > Are you drinking that Starbucks? 1. Part the parents, part the state which is subsidizing the university I’m attending but which is at risk from attempts to open the education market to foreign investment under GATS, which would make state education into “unfair subsidies”. 2. Both my parents are government workers - my mother is a doctor, and my father is a journalist for CBC. Both are under the same threat from GATS. 3. I buy my clothes second-hand or made in Canada. 4. No, it’s fair trade I bought from the student-run architecture café, which they’re trying to shut down so that a multi-national corporation can do business on campus without the annoyance of competition. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-war-protestors-barred-me-from-class/159365/55 "2003-03-07T05:20:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by asterion \* > \*\*I stand by my generalization that it’s the humanities majors (especially the really soft disciplines) that are out there doing the ineffectual protesting while all the science majors want to do is get to class or lab. \*\* Well, FYI here’s a humanties major who just wants to do his research in the library without having a crowd of angry, unwashed students hanging around shouting slogans outside. (Why the library? Why not bother the people at the book store or the athletics complex?) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-war-protestors-barred-me-from-class/159365.md?page=2)