How do you drive a group of determined students out of a sit-in protest? If all else fails, you could try shutting off their Internet access.
Students at the University of Virginia have hunkered down in Madison Hall, an administrative building on the campus, seeking a higher minimum wage for university employees. But campus officials, arguing that the protest is disruptive, have moved to block the students’ access to creature comforts. That means prohibiting the protesters’ friends from bringing food and course work, and it also means turning off the hall’s wireless network.
Internet or no, the students say they aren’t budging. (The Cavalier Daily)
6 Responses to ‘Hell, No, We Won’t Download!’
lawman11 - January 26, 2012 at 7:11 am
Very interesting. But one wonders what prompted this article? The book it is based on came out nearly a decade ago …
theatheist - January 26, 2012 at 10:13 am
Clearly the moral is that the study of language leads to sociopathy.
katisumas - January 26, 2012 at 1:49 pm
..but I didn’t know about it, or about this linguist. I enjoyed reading this very interesting article…..
mikegrubb - January 26, 2012 at 1:58 pm
Maybe I’m missing something, but wouldn’t the reverse of stir “s, t, r” be “r, t, s” rather than “r, s, t”? Whoo. Just thinking that hard was exhausting. I need a rets.
jffoster - January 26, 2012 at 3:09 pm
Or a glass of retsina.
Goofy “linguistics” and claims about language from those days of yore are a bit understandable and overlookable. What drives one to want several bottles of retsina are the goofy, unsupported, ideologically or traditionally derived, claims about language or particular languages, including English, that get made and taken seriously in our own time, by newspapers, media networks (who have also done some good things on language and English), and sometimes by blogsters and often commenters in this blog.
antcl - January 30, 2012 at 1:11 am
Nah, the evidence is incontrovertible that modern languages were constructed as a vast kind of conspiracy by pun. (And if you’re going to have a ‘grand unified field theory’ for language, clearly knowing too many of them would only get in the way. Where Ruloff went wrong was not knowing enough Basque.) I was going to put a link to Edo Nyland, but he seems to have been spirited off the planet — presumably by Saharans and/or Benedictine Monks, for spilling the beans.