Occupy CUNY. Part 1 MIC Check!@ Baruch College Board of Trustees Public Hearing. Part 2 MIC Check!@ Baruch College Board of Trustees Public Hearing. Baruch Police Riot at CUNY march, 11/21/11. CUNY Police Riot 2 of 5. CUNY Police Riot 4 of 5. Protesters Attacked by NYPD at CUNY Baruch. Occupy CUNY At Baruch Peaceful Protesters Removed From Building 11-21-11. Photos, Video: CUNY Cops Clash With Protesting Students At Baruch College. CUNY N28 WEB. NYTimes: CUNY Prepares for More Student Protests. Ozier Muhammad/The New York TimesCUNY students protesting tuition increases last Monday. As City University of New York trustees prepare to vote Monday afternoon on a series of tuition increases over the next few years, the school system is bracing for a possible repeat of the conflict that marred last week’s hearing on the increases.
University officials said security would be higher than at last week’s session in the same place, at Baruch College in Manhattan, when protesters scuffled with campus public safety officers and 15 people were arrested. Baruch’s president, Mitchel Wallerstein, has called off classes after 3 p.m. in the building where the board’s meetings take place, the Newman Vertical Campus on 25th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues. The meeting is set for 4:30 p.m.
Protesters from multiple groups will converge on the building, with some marching there from Madison Square Park. CUNY Students to Protest Today; Barricades Already Set Up, Classes Cancelled. The CUNY board of trustees will be voting on possible tuition hikes today, and students are planning a big action in protest this afternoon. In response, CUNY is planning something of a pre-emptive strike to prevent the kind of disorder that happened last time; the school has already set up barricades and has cancelled all classes after 3 p.m. to reduce the number of students on campus. The announcements of today's march from Students United For a Free CUNY reads: This rally is in response to a couple of things. First, the vicious attack of CUNY students by CUNY public safety officers at the Baruch campus on Monday, November 22, 2011. We demand the immediate resignation of both Chancellor Goldstein, as well as, the Head of Public Safety. Second, addressing the reason students were at Baruch on the 22nd in the first place, which was the outrageous way the Board of Trustees continues to run CUNY like a financial institution rather than an educational institution.
Mitchel Wallerstein. Baruch College cancels Monday classes to keep out students before vote on tuition spike CBS News: Baruch College Cancels Monday Afternoon Classes To Avoid Repeat Of Protest Violence Against Proposed Tuition Increase. Anticipating Protest, Baruch College Reschedules Monday P.M. Classes. Kroll Advisory Solutions. (pdf)Kroll Report2013. Report on CUNY Protest Buries Evidence of Police Violence «student activism. A new report on a 2011 CUNY protest that saw more than a dozen arrests leaves core questions unanswered while misrepresenting evidence of police violence. On November 21, 2011, City University of New York students and faculty assembled with others at Baruch College for a public meeting of the CUNY board of trustees. The gathering, which took place six days after police rousted the Occupy Wall Street encampment at Zuccotti Park, was large and boisterous, and turned confrontational after police and CUNY security blocked most of those in attendance from the room in which the meeting was taking place.
Fifteen demonstrators were arrested in the clash that followed, amid reports of rough behavior from baton-wielding cops. In the weeks after the confrontation CUNY commissioned an independent report on the incident, and that report, prepared by the Kroll consulting firm, has just been released. Like this: Like Loading... Arrests in Tuition Protest at Baruch College. 15 arrested at Baruch College in clash with cops during tuition hike protest
Students angry over a tuition hike tried to crash a CUNY Board of Trustees meeting Monday and clashed with baton-wielding campus cops at Baruch College. CUNY security officers battered protesters and forced them out of the lobby of the Flatiron District school, witnesses said. College public safety officers arrested 15 demonstrators on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to rioting, said CUNY spokesman Michael Arena. “I felt threatened by the peace officers. I felt attacked,” said Hunter College alum Michelle O’Brien, 33, of Brooklyn, who was among those arrested. “I was very confused by what happened,” she added. About 150 students showed up at Baruch College just after 5 p.m. and tried to reach a 14th-floor auditorium where the trustees were meeting. The trustees were holding a public hearing on a proposed tuition hike of $300 a year for each of the next four years.
The board is set to vote on the tuition hike Monday. “I’m an Army veteran. Whutchinson@nydailynews.com. Updated: BREAKING: Arrests at CUNY Baruch, Journalist Thrown into Revolving Door by NYPD. 3:40 PM PT: Here's what happened: Students were protesting the tuition hikes across the CUNY system. We did a quick update earlier at Madison Square Park on the student march. The students entered a school building, locked arms, and sat down. We got an alert telling us that students were being beaten and arrested. We do know that between 12 and 30 students were arrested, and are trying to figure out what happened. Stay with us. 3:45 PM PT: We can confirm that this was a solidarity march with Occupy Wall Street. We were told that there was a board of trustees meeting. 4:05 PM PT: Tim and Hank have moved to an occupied building at New College.
There are about 30 people inside, no one that we know of from Baruch. Riot police are on the scene with Flexi-Cuffs. Our understanding is that the New College president supports the occupy movement and is allowing people to stay. We'll keep you posted. 7:10 PM PT: New College is Safe. You can see police with their batons out. New College is safe. 1. 2. At Baruch College, Tuition Protests End in Confrontation and Arrests - Students. By Eric Hoover New York A young man chanted as three police officers wrestled him to the floor.
"Students united," he screamed, "will never be defeated! " A young woman, her hands bound with white plastic cuffs, shrieked as two officers dragged her across the floor. "I have a right to be in here," she yelled. "I have a right to be here. " On Monday evening, a day of passionate, but peaceful protests against tuition hikes and student loans ended in violence at the City University of New York's Baruch College. One item on the agenda, a proposed tuition increase—of $300 a year for the next five years—drew college students from around the city to Baruch's campus. Earlier in the day, protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement gathered in lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park to announce a national "student-debt refusal" campaign. "The question has been asked repeatedly about the morality of not paying debts," Ms.
All around, protesters insisted that dollars weren't the only issue. Mr. Mr. Twenty-Five Arrested At Baruch College Protest [VIDEO] CUNY Meets Student Protest with Force, Crackdown Is Sharply Criticized | PSC CUNY. By John Tarleton A student demonstration against increased tuition was met with force by CUNY security officers on November 21, sparking larger protests the following week. CUNY’s decision to use batons and arrests to clear the lobby of Baruch’s Vertical Campus was widely criticized, and the college’s president, Mitchel Wallerstein, later said that he regretted the decision to use force. The PSC demanded an independent investigation of the November 21 events, which the Chancellery has agreed to. “We have made it clear to the University that violent response to students who are protesting nonviolently is not acceptable,” said the union’s president, Barbara Bowen. The confrontation occurred outside a public hearing of the Board of Trustees, at which students unanimously opposed the plan for tuition increases that will add up to $1,500 over five years.
In response to the standoff, student organizers shifted their approach. But the CUNY student movement has been re-energized. Students arrested as protest escalates - News - Ticker - Baruch College. This is a beta version of the new BaruchConnect.com, powered by Ringo. The content on this site is a combination of content written by club administrators and system administrators, and may or may not accurately represent the actual message of the individuals or organizations associated with it. The Ringo software has been designed and developed by Digital Natives Group Inc. (link to nativesgroup.com) and is being beta tested with the cooperation of the Undergraduate Student Government of Baruch College. At this time, this is not an official Baruch College website. All content on this site is protected under 47 USC § 230 - Protection for private blocking and screening of offensive material, which states "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.
" A NEW KIND OF BRUTALITY… « theenglishview. An all-day rally by CUNY students against a proposed tuition increase turned rather anarchic Monday evening when young student protesters ignored police demands to clear the entrance of a major establishment at Baruch College where the university’s board members were to meet and 15 people were incarcerated. The 15 students were reported to have been thrown to the ground and taken away in handcuffs and plastic restraints, from the lobby of the college building, in Manhattan, while staging a demonstration against the proposal for tuition increases, which City University of New York’s Board of Trustees is scheduled to have a poll on next week Monday. frame> Like this: Like Loading... Kroll Inc. Kroll is a corporate investigations and risk consulting firm based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.[2] It was established in 1972.
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Geographic locations[edit] Pepper-spray investigators have UCD ties Davis Enterprise. UC Davis has hired to investigate the arrest and pepper-spraying of protesters a law firm with past links to the university’s administration. Van Dermyden Allison Law Corp. of Sacramento’s seven-member team includes two attorneys who have worked at UCD, according to the firm’s website. Shareholder Deborah Allison worked as an attorney in the general counsel’s office at UCD from 2000 to January 2007. UCD spokesperson Claudia Morain said the attorneys’ past employment does not constitute a conflict of interest.
“The university has retained the firm due to its wealth of experience in conducting workplace investigations and its reputation for excellence in the legal community,” Morain said in an email message, adding, “Deborah Allison’s knowledge of how the university works is invaluable, and makes her uniquely qualified to conduct this review.” He worked on campus from 1985 until December 2009. Van Dermyden Allison and a second firm, Yorba Linda-based Norman A.