Don't Berkeley and Harvard have students with rich parents?

[Fire Walk With Me]

Berkeley today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buovLQ9qyWQ

Students injured by police will have been in touch with their parents, and some parents will have been directed by them to the above video.

They'll tell two friends, and so on, and so on...

This might get interesting.

[MADem]

1. At those tuition prices, the kids may not get the response from the parents that they desire.

The parents just might say "If you don't get your ass back to class and cut this crap out, I'm pulling you out and you can go to Bumfuck Community College next year."

I don't think the parents will be too enthused for the whole "cut class, go protest" thing--they weren't too thrilled forty some odd years ago, either. I'm guessing that's a pretty constant paradigm.

[Luminous Animal]

2. And that tactic CERTAINLY stopped the students in the 60s.

Not.

[MADem]

5. No--what stopped the students in the sixties was the DRAFT.

If you didn't keep your grade point average up, you were going to Vietnam.

It kept a lot of the activity to the weekends, the occasional sit-ins notwithstanding.

When the lottery system came into play, and that wasn't until 1969, kids who had a "safe" number felt freer to express themselves.

You can't really compare the motivations of then to now--the draft was a great big cloud over every male in a university setting until the lottery system came out, and some were tagged "safe" and others "out."

History--it's a neat thing.

[Luminous Animal]

7. You compared. Not me.

"I don't think the parents will be too enthused for the whole "cut class, go protest" thing--they weren't too thrilled forty some odd years ago, either."

But go ahead. Talk yourself into a hole yet again.

[MADem]

12. I compared the "less than thrilled" tuition-paying parents, not the motivations of their kids.

Go ahead--fail to read contextually (yet again).

[XemaSab]

3. I think my mom was deeply disappointed

that I didn't get involved in more protests when I was at school.

[Fumesucker]

6. On the other hand the parents may be aware that many grads are going jobless..

What's the point of spending big bucks on your kid's college if they're not going to be able to get a job that doesn't involve saying "would you like fries with that, sir?"?

[MADem]

11. I'd want 'em to get through the semester, at least. That's a big chunk of money to flush

and not have any transferable credits to show for it.

[AsahinaKimi]

4. I went to UC Berkeley

Its true my parents have money, but I paid my own tution..at least for three years, after I lost my job, I had to drop out. I was hoping to go back some day.. who knows.

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. I should have qualified my OP with "some" rich...

I hope that things work out as you'd wish it to!

[EFerrari]

8. Harvard and Cal also have a lot of scholarship money to hand out

and Cal is a public university. There are people with money there but most people are not rich, no.

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. Gotcha, thanks!