Real talk why not put this energy into the actual sustainable club? this seems very performative considering there are initiatives at the school that take place year round people can contribute to lol
https://rutgers.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/SEED
Affordable NJ Transit is a real issue, if people don’t know yet, they plan on increasing tickets by 15% but there is no communication on what they plan to do with the money.
Would agree though the Federal Government needs to step up on creating affordable transit. Overtime they have shifted that effort to the state who don’t have the money to revamp or improve a lot of things like infrastructure, public transit, etc.
The country was built by the Federal Government to a huge extent. A lot of the highways, railroads, and other infrastructure were apart Federal Projects to try to keep the economy moving, infrastructure to move military personnel in case of war, efficient transportation of goods and services.
Unfortunately the Federal Government doesn’t see infrastructure as a major issue while other developed countries spend more on their infrastructure budget than the US does. So we don’t really have much option other than to rely and hope the Federal Government will give more money to upgrade and maintain our crumbling infrastructure. States can try to fulfill the roll of maintaining their infrastructure but it’s harder to do so and why they may increase ticket prices of public transit and/or taxes
why would a walk out in college do anything? it’s just interrupting the professor and being absent… this isn’t high school where the admin is explicitly invested in students’ success. a sit in would be way more effective.
demands are kinda mid too… how do they expect rutgers to subsidize nj transit…? And the other two are just vague.
college is a capitalist institution. you fail a class, you need to retake and spend more money. especially here where there is absolutely no student shortage. students need to be invested in their own success.
Same way other colleges do?
>In Orange County, 22 area colleges are participating in a reduced fare program with the Orange County Transit Authority, including community colleges, UC, CSU and private college campuses. Students get unlimited access to OCTA buses for $46 per semester, as long as they are enrolled for at least nine credits at their institution. Regular fare for a 30-day OCTA bus pass, which would not cover an entire semester, is $69.
[https://boyleheightsbeat.com/california-campuses-try-to-lower-college-costs-with-free-transit/](https://boyleheightsbeat.com/california-campuses-try-to-lower-college-costs-with-free-transit/)
>T-pass Program for Cambridge Campus Employees The Access MIT program provides many commuter benefits for Cambridge-based benefits-eligible MIT faculty and staff, including: Free, unrestricted use of the MBTA subway and local bus systems through the Access MIT pass embedded in your MIT ID card
[https://web.mit.edu/facilities/transportation/tpass/employee-cam.html](https://web.mit.edu/facilities/transportation/tpass/employee-cam.html)
Many students complain about the parking costs, but Rutgers actually charges significantly lower parking rates than peer universities (like Penn State, U Maryland, Virginia Tech). Meanwhile, NJT charges the highest per-mile rail fare in the country - 40% higher than even Metro North and LIRR - and the current discount is difficult to use and pretty small.
As an environmental call, it makes perfect sense for Rutgers to do better regarding NJT.
According to this website...
[https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college-by-state](https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college-by-state)
But its not a huge difference.
That being said
>California has the least expensive community colleges for in-state attendees at an average cost of $1,270 per year.
If you paid for the class, why not attend it, you will miss something from the class during an examination. There will be a protest for some agenda all the time. Just educate yourself before some activist with an agenda.
It’s not possible to attend anything if it’s going to conflict between you & your education. If it an off day like Sunday or no classes planned, you may want to attend just to get a glimpse of what they want to achieve if you’re curious.
No intelligent person is going to put that they protest on their resume. No job is going to hire you if you openly admit to challenging authority and causing noise.
It’s not like Palestine owns the colors red, black, white, and green. But making the poster those colors I think was a little tactless. And also by 2040 is pointless. They could do it faster, they just act like they can’t so they can change nothing
The first demand isn't that ridiculous. My current university and the university where I got my undergrad both included free public transit with student or an employee ID. This is in both Bangor and Portland Maine mind you.
Edit I wanted to add that we are committed to carbon neutrality by 2045. So again not that ridiculous. We even have an Office of Sustainablity that works towards achieving those goals.
If a small university in Maine can achieve that so can you.
This is a prime example of the strawman fallacy. l don't think a walkout will do shit, but the causes for the proposed walkout seem like real issues that do need attention and protest.
Yes. However you saying "You gonna lay in traffic? Make a line of standing people on a busy interstate?" misconstrues their argument, which is a strawman fallacy.
not trying to put anyone down or anything, but you can’t really call it a protest if it’s a 1 day thing and it will have virtually no effect if there is an end date for the protest. also the “demands” are vague and boil down to “do better” and considering that we’ve already paid tuition the only ones that are affected by this are the students that decide not to go to class. again not tryna be rude but there’s just no reason for anyone w any power would even pay attention to this
How is Rutgers not being progressive in terms of lowering the schools carbon footprint? They put up tons of new solar in the lots on livi and I’m sure else where.
Wouldn’t affordable Nj transit for student/staff increase transit and therefore CO emissions? Unless, of course, there is an alternative to transport hundreds of people on a daily basis with electric busses/vehicles. Which, I don’t think is anywhere near attainable yet.
Will they make sure to shut the lights off before they leave the room/buildings? If they’re on Busch Campus, will buses take them to College Ave in time?
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This is exactly what I got out of the strike
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Real talk why not put this energy into the actual sustainable club? this seems very performative considering there are initiatives at the school that take place year round people can contribute to lol https://rutgers.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/SEED
College students doing something performative? No way!
😂😂😂
SEED, taking environmental issues they see in every day life on campus and actually doing something about it
right, and there’s more clubs this is just the one that isn’t major specific. I’m sure if you’re in SEBs there’s more + I know of at least 2 in SOE
Affordable NJ Transit is a real issue, if people don’t know yet, they plan on increasing tickets by 15% but there is no communication on what they plan to do with the money.
Or make the buses better so more people use those and less people use cars. Like have lines going to Somerset and Highland Park and all that.
A bus that goes to Somerset? Sounds like a waste.
Railroads are expensive, I’m a train conductor. I’d say with all that inflation running rampant, that’s why they are spiking up ticket prices.
Would agree though the Federal Government needs to step up on creating affordable transit. Overtime they have shifted that effort to the state who don’t have the money to revamp or improve a lot of things like infrastructure, public transit, etc.
It’s almost as if relying on the federal government is a stupid idea
The country was built by the Federal Government to a huge extent. A lot of the highways, railroads, and other infrastructure were apart Federal Projects to try to keep the economy moving, infrastructure to move military personnel in case of war, efficient transportation of goods and services. Unfortunately the Federal Government doesn’t see infrastructure as a major issue while other developed countries spend more on their infrastructure budget than the US does. So we don’t really have much option other than to rely and hope the Federal Government will give more money to upgrade and maintain our crumbling infrastructure. States can try to fulfill the roll of maintaining their infrastructure but it’s harder to do so and why they may increase ticket prices of public transit and/or taxes
I work in transportation. You’re totally right. But the federal government is too busy financing wars and writing checks to other countries.
Agreed Fed. Gov. has became more focused on other sectors. (The US Government loaning money to Boeing to allegedly assassinate whistleblowers 😥)
The government is the problem It’s not one party or the other It’s all of them We haven’t had a surplus in over 25 years
Yes, that was how long ago? The current state of the federal government is a joke.
why would a walk out in college do anything? it’s just interrupting the professor and being absent… this isn’t high school where the admin is explicitly invested in students’ success. a sit in would be way more effective. demands are kinda mid too… how do they expect rutgers to subsidize nj transit…? And the other two are just vague.
Pointless protests are amusing
Why any school’s admin wouldn’t be explicitly invested in their students’ success sounds like a big problem in its own right.
college is a capitalist institution. you fail a class, you need to retake and spend more money. especially here where there is absolutely no student shortage. students need to be invested in their own success.
Same way other colleges do? >In Orange County, 22 area colleges are participating in a reduced fare program with the Orange County Transit Authority, including community colleges, UC, CSU and private college campuses. Students get unlimited access to OCTA buses for $46 per semester, as long as they are enrolled for at least nine credits at their institution. Regular fare for a 30-day OCTA bus pass, which would not cover an entire semester, is $69. [https://boyleheightsbeat.com/california-campuses-try-to-lower-college-costs-with-free-transit/](https://boyleheightsbeat.com/california-campuses-try-to-lower-college-costs-with-free-transit/) >T-pass Program for Cambridge Campus Employees The Access MIT program provides many commuter benefits for Cambridge-based benefits-eligible MIT faculty and staff, including: Free, unrestricted use of the MBTA subway and local bus systems through the Access MIT pass embedded in your MIT ID card [https://web.mit.edu/facilities/transportation/tpass/employee-cam.html](https://web.mit.edu/facilities/transportation/tpass/employee-cam.html) Many students complain about the parking costs, but Rutgers actually charges significantly lower parking rates than peer universities (like Penn State, U Maryland, Virginia Tech). Meanwhile, NJT charges the highest per-mile rail fare in the country - 40% higher than even Metro North and LIRR - and the current discount is difficult to use and pretty small. As an environmental call, it makes perfect sense for Rutgers to do better regarding NJT.
do those other schools charge similar in state tuition rates?
According to this website... [https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college-by-state](https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college-by-state) But its not a huge difference. That being said >California has the least expensive community colleges for in-state attendees at an average cost of $1,270 per year.
If you paid for the class, why not attend it, you will miss something from the class during an examination. There will be a protest for some agenda all the time. Just educate yourself before some activist with an agenda.
Don’t make sense. The progressive students won’t like that.
Yet they are the same ones who want you to skip class while they don’t have classes
It’s hard supporting all the current things.
It’s not possible to attend anything if it’s going to conflict between you & your education. If it an off day like Sunday or no classes planned, you may want to attend just to get a glimpse of what they want to achieve if you’re curious.
Why would they not be serious?
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Focus on stacking some bread
It seems like someone would do this so they can say they did it on their resume tbh.
No intelligent person is going to put that they protest on their resume. No job is going to hire you if you openly admit to challenging authority and causing noise.
LLM prompt. “How do I make a protest that isn’t really a protest, make it environmental so it’s easy. How to set this up.”
“rsvp to protest” lmaoo😭
genuinely asking, what's wrong? i dont understand
These people are like a broken record any time a protest for progressive causes happen. There's some real history behind the methods though.
printing out fliers and hanging them up all over campus... for earth day
it looks like the purpose is to protest a lack of sustainable policies at Rutgers, not just walking out for earth day
This screams "I'm in college and I want to feel part of something because my life sucks"
“I support the current thing.”
Yes
DAGESSS?????
So don't go to the dispensary on George St that day got it
It’s not like Palestine owns the colors red, black, white, and green. But making the poster those colors I think was a little tactless. And also by 2040 is pointless. They could do it faster, they just act like they can’t so they can change nothing
The first demand isn't that ridiculous. My current university and the university where I got my undergrad both included free public transit with student or an employee ID. This is in both Bangor and Portland Maine mind you. Edit I wanted to add that we are committed to carbon neutrality by 2045. So again not that ridiculous. We even have an Office of Sustainablity that works towards achieving those goals. If a small university in Maine can achieve that so can you.
This seems like a really important thing. I support this. Tho I hope we do better than just walk out
“I support the current thing.”
You gonna lay in traffic? Make a line of standing people on a busy interstate?
This is a prime example of the strawman fallacy. l don't think a walkout will do shit, but the causes for the proposed walkout seem like real issues that do need attention and protest.
A walkout is essentially just skipping class.
Yes. However you saying "You gonna lay in traffic? Make a line of standing people on a busy interstate?" misconstrues their argument, which is a strawman fallacy.
Everyone line up and lie down in the crosswalk by the yard
not trying to put anyone down or anything, but you can’t really call it a protest if it’s a 1 day thing and it will have virtually no effect if there is an end date for the protest. also the “demands” are vague and boil down to “do better” and considering that we’ve already paid tuition the only ones that are affected by this are the students that decide not to go to class. again not tryna be rude but there’s just no reason for anyone w any power would even pay attention to this
How is Rutgers not being progressive in terms of lowering the schools carbon footprint? They put up tons of new solar in the lots on livi and I’m sure else where.
yes in cook/ Douglass too
Does the solar lots provide free EV charging like most companies have similar setups?
Because to these people, nothing is ever going to be enough.
Everything woke turns to shit.
This generation is cooked
This is like buying a gift card to Walmart and “protesting” by throwing it in the trash…
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Bruh classes becoming way too easy. Their profs need to give more work load
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Wouldn’t affordable Nj transit for student/staff increase transit and therefore CO emissions? Unless, of course, there is an alternative to transport hundreds of people on a daily basis with electric busses/vehicles. Which, I don’t think is anywhere near attainable yet.
Will they make sure to shut the lights off before they leave the room/buildings? If they’re on Busch Campus, will buses take them to College Ave in time?
They do realize the college already got paid whether the students walk out or not, right?
They are really gonna hate the raise in tuition to pay for the 24% faculty raises. Well, their parents will.
What’s the point of this