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‘Occupy Wall Street’ Participation To Earn Class Credit At Columbia U.

Announcement Comes As Dozens Are Arrested On New Year's Eve

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP)Columbia University will offer a new course for upperclassmen and grad students next semester. An Occupy Wall Street class will send students into the field and will be taught by Dr. Hannah Appel, a veteran of the Occupy movement.

The course begins next semester and will be divided between class work at Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus and fieldwork that will require students to become involved with the Occupy movement outside of the classroom.

The course will be called “Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, Social Movement” it will be run by the anthropology department.

Appel is a staunch defender of the Occupy movement, in her blog she said that, ““it is important to push back against the rhetoric of ‘disorganization’ or ‘a movement without a message’ coming from left, right and center.”

Appel told the New York Post that while her involvement with the movement will color the way she teaches it will not prevent her from being an objective teacher.

The movement which began in September has been met with large amounts of support and resistance.

Dozens of occupiers were arrested shortly before midnight on New Years Eve when police say that they were tearing down barricades surrounding Zuccotti Park.

At least one of the people arrested was charged with assaulting a police officer, others were charged with trespassing, disorderly conduct and reckless endangerment.

Police are still processing arrests but say some protesters have been released. No other details were immediately available Sunday.

What do you think about the new class at Columbia and the alleged New Year’s Eve antics of the occupiers? Let us know in our comments section…

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  • Dan Beattie

    How much tuition must I pay in order to learn how to be a Mooching Marxist Moron?

  • IVillageIdiot

    Yank their funding….

    Also, so that you’ll understand, these guys are ALL building massive trusts at each college so that ONE DAY…. they’ll have the coin to negate any attempts at moderation by Congress. They will use these Trusts built by shear Capitalism to produce an indoctrination unstoppable by Congress or anyone else, the ultimate goal of which is to destroy Capitalism and the Liberty it represents.

    Better figure out how to stop them soon, or it will be too late, if not already.

    .

  • M S

    Columbia has some pretty pricey 5% type tuition. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sfs/docs/University_Tuition_And_Fees/tuition-fees-11-12.html
    Perhaps the class can save subway fare and protest right on campus until the professors take pay cuts and bring the tuition down!

  • Bill

    Students can protest for free on their own time. Collecting tuition to teach students to protest is a very stupid idea.

    Another way of looking at it is to pay to be taught to be an anarchist. Then, when one goes to get a job and the interviewer looks at the resume that says “I attended school to be an anarchist” the graduate will complain that corporations don’t want to hire them! Then the graduate will compalin that no jobs are available!

  • Debi Starks

    How about some equality & have a similar course in the Tea Party movement? Better yet, how about a course in REAL American history for a change?

    • Perspective

      Yup..I wondered how many class credits any University gave students for attending a Tea Party rally, where we pay for our own toilets, seats, platforms etc, don’t park ourselves on land we don’t own overnight, and clean up before we leave.

      SHOULD be worth 10 times the OWS credit since the students might actually learn something of value.

  • OCCUPY MY OUTHOUSE!

    I would expect nothing less from such an entitled crowd!

  • John West

    All these idiots hate rich people, but can’t wait to be rich themselves.

    They all deserve the hypocrisy award. There isn’t one of them that would turn down a life changing lottery win.

  • RUFUS LEVIN

    COLUMBIA.
    BARACK OBAMA’S ALMA MATER!

    FIGURES!

  • dlterm

    No surprise here. Columbia has really become a radical leftist institution in recent years. They would have hired bin laden to teach international studies if they could have.

  • RUFUS LEVIN

    WHY WOULD FEDERAL LOANS COVER SUCH CLASSES?

    SEEMS LIKE ANTI-GOVERNMENT.

    • Ken Heins

      when you get deep down, OWS is very pro current administration, even though they whine about them like they do everything else. in the end, they will support the current administration because they need the checks. $$$$

  • Jason Vincent

    Bet you a tuna sandwich they didn’t give credit for attending a Tea Party event. Yeah, that’s what I thought too.

    • Jerry

      Have some more kool-aid. You’re not quite done yet.

    • Dem’s Nuts

      Calm down Keith G. You’re delusional from sniffing Obama’s throne!

      How about something positive, like course credit for defeating Obama in 2012?

    • Anonoymous

      Troll. Ask any Native-, Asian-, African- or Hispanic/Latino-American (my apologies to those who fall in these categories and prefer simply to be identified as “Americans”) who are part of the Tea Party movement if they believe it is racist. Less rhetoric, more action. Sitting around trying to disrupt our financial systems during one of the worst economic periods in history borders not only on madness, but unadulterated terror. The needs of a few hundred bums do not outweigh the needs of the hundreds of millions in this country and billions worldwide who rely on a functioning economic system.

    • Fed Up with Occupy

      Let’s just compare the numbers arrests and acts of violence per capita at Tea Party events vs the “Occupy” group. Now who is bent on destroying America? Rather than trying to drag everyone down to their level, why not try and send an inspirational message to improve everyone’s life?

    • Cb

      yeah, the Tea Party is worthwhile and the filthy, cop hating, Occutards are the criminals

    • Mark L

      That’s what you think, because your college professors told you so. And you never bothered to attend a Tea Party event, or even peruse some of the speeches or writings of the key players. At what point do we stop blaming your professors for the casual slander you sling around, and start blaming your own willful ignorance?

    • Jeffrey Locke

      Keith…It’s January 2, February 2. You cane out of your hole too early. Go back.

    • Bill Rowlands

      Name one racist, or terrorist action taken by the tea party. Name one violent incident at a tea party rally. You can’t. Occupy leaves hundreds of tons of trash,debris, drug paraphenalia and rape victimes in their wake. They have destroyed several public spaces. The Tea party on the other hand cleans up after themselves and leaves the place better than thye found it.

      The tea party stands for Lower taxes. How are lower taxes going to destroy America?

      Your comment is obviously engendered from a leftist troll seminar.

    • Jim in Houston

      Keep smoking that crap and you will destroy your one remaining functional brain cell.

    • tom wright

      Intelligent, reasoned and well thought out comment supported by facts and data Keith. No knee-jerk ad hominem Lefty response from you…especially that “prison” thingy. Congrats, you should be proud. Thanks for succinctly making everyone else’s point, albeit through the back door and your own expense. Happy New Year.

    • aliswell

      Well, at least your last sentence is correct.

    • Ed

      Keith, you are so blinded by your political bias that you miss the point. You are entitled to your opinions but people who support the Tea Party, at least at the present time, are entitled to theirs as well. To my knowledge no one, repeat, NO ONE has been arrested at a Tea Party event because they, while practicing their right to assembly, did NOT infringe on the rights of others, whereas the OWS folks have repeatedly done so. Civil rights do not apply only to those on the Left. As for your racial comment, more minorities attended Tea Party events than the OWS. Please do some homework before posting your biased, uneducated comments as you reduce yourself to boring Leftist platitudes. Your acceptance of a public university “teaching” only one point of view exposes your inability to grasp the concept of equality thereby making moot your charge of “racism”.

      • bbs428

        LOL –

        I was getting ready to tee off on “the tool of the left” Keith when I read your comment Ed.

        Well said mate!

        Any chances these well rounded Columbia upper classmen will get credit for going to a Tea Party protest or a meeting?

        I’m sure Dr. Appel would allow that in the name of research and truth in journalism… o.0

  • Steven Moshlak

    Another “Mick” class to pad someone’s GPA, resume and transcripts. What is the objective to this course? Obviously it is not intended for people to get a job.

  • Terry

    This training qualifies you to blame others for your problems. No wonder the world loves it so.

    By the way: you already know how to do that. So like everything else in this world, it is nothing.

  • what a joke

    It’s no wonder why the rest of the world mocks our education system. You think I’m lying, just look around your class and see who’s getting the best grades.

  • Wolf

    This is totally absurd. Now a respected ivy league college is going to teach our country’s youth that its ok to be lazy and not earn your way up the ladder.

  • John

    And when the economy improves and the protestors are able to find jobs will this school make sure to send their students out to… nothing? Dr. Hannah Appel doesn’t sound very bright.

  • cheryl lynn

    This professor should be arrested for inciting violence.. Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.

    • Dufus

      Don’t arrest too many of the fools or there may not be enough to teach the classes. Thin them our gradually, like pulling cactus thorns from someone’s butt.

  • DanTe

    So how much student loan funds are going to be borrowed for this? And that it’s somehow UNFAIR to make the idiots pay the loan back. And my taxes should pay for it?

  • RealityCheck7

    I would love to hear the job interview, So, Ms. Hairy-armpit. You want a job and your qualificaitons are? Ahhh, so you protested against my corporaton making a profit and you want me to hire you, right? Okay, your wage will be $1 a year that way we won’t have to make a profit off of YOUR salary.

  • Naftali

    Where can I get a job teaching “stupid”

  • The Realist

    How much is the “Occupy” CORPORATION paying this professor?

    • Deeg Againdeeg

      It is hysterical to note the Occupy Corp. That enriches a few at the top while the lemming volunteer ‘Occupiers’ cluelessly march their way to the edge. That same corporation that has taken donations and taken from the protestors for perusal gains by those managing the funds.

  • Billy

    Truly pathetic. And this is considered one of the better schools in the country. It is no wonder why we are in decline as a nation. and I thought the height of educational stupidity was the masters in the Beatles. Liverpool Hope is looking brilliant compared to columbia.

    • The Realist

      Now we know where PROFESSIONAL PROTESTERS are trained.

  • BobbyONJ

    God forsaken country? Then move to Cuba or Venezuela.

    • Liann

      God-Forsaken, like Rick Perry prayed for rain as a political stunt and got more drought, a whole year of worse drought, because God has abandoned those who turned their back on the poor. Google: “Rick Perry’s Drought”. Yes, god-forsaken.

  • kit

    maybe the students will occupy the school until 99% of the students get the 1% of the teaching jobs. What goes around…..

  • Raymond Leslie

    Being classitied as black since birth in this god forsaken country i was often taunted about how it must feel by white people? Well…?

    • HELLo

      Oh, forgot to add that we classify you as a savage when you kill and murder your own

    • Perspective

      What on earth are you talking about?? If you believe that this country is God-forsaken, I recommend you try living in ANY other one and see how well that works out for you.

    • RUFUS LEVIN

      I UNDERSTAND THAT BLACKS ARE ALL DOING REALLY WELL IN SOMALIA, UGANDA, KENYA, ETHIOPIA, AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF NON-USA AFRICAN NATIONS….HOW ABOUT GOING “HOME”

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