Creative Destruction

To think that I was just a couple blocks from this story, right out of the Onion, kind of makes me sad. I missed an opportunity to go laugh at stupid rich kids.

“Not allowing us bathroom rights is a human-rights violation!” Emily Stainkamp, an 18-year-old freshman, said from her cellphone inside the cafeteria. The university relented, and students won the right to tinkle.

“My parents are a little worried,” Fharah Khimji, 20, said from inside. “They’re paying a lot of money to send me here.”

With the kids’ human rights indulged, they unfurled a dizzying list of 13 demands, which ran the gamut from lower tuition, to NYU pulling out investments in Israel, to giving freebies to Palestinian students. But their No. 1 demand was this: “Full legal and disciplinary amnesty for all parties involved in the occupation.”

You can’t say these kids are too dumb to look out for their own interests.

Outside, about 40 supporters held a rally. Keri Lyons, 20, and Nadia Collado, 19, walked around topless in some kind of protest over NYU’s failure to expose where its money goes. Or something. It was cold.

A cop eyed the crowd and shook his head.

“It’s pathetic,” he said. “These are privileged kids. These kids have silver spoons in their mouths, and their parents send them here – so they can sit in the cafeteria.”

via NYU’S SNIT-IN – New York Post.