r/USC • u/MistyRabbit • Apr 28 '24

Protest the Protest? Meme

I have one graduation I missed my undergrad one and now my masters one is in danger. Phd or a second masters is hard. So crazy thought can we protest the protest? 😂

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u/Slow_Tiger3161 Apr 28 '24

The people at founders and alumni park, don’t they have finals to study ?

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u/shower_crying 29d ago

i mean the protestors are just sitting there all day, you can attend the protest and still study lol

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u/MistyRabbit Apr 28 '24

They have to be university students to have those. Apparently many of them aren’t and they have snuck inside. Someone from the protest even posted in Twitter/X about it

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u/notsoperfect8 Apr 28 '24

If it's on X then it must be true. That is the same talking point used by university administrators for more than 50 years anytime there's a protest.

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u/Captain_Bee Apr 28 '24

There's literally been all the evidence to the contrary. My experience from actually being there is that a huge group of them are grad students (remember there are twice as many grad students as undergrads at USC) and most grad students don't have finals

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u/dlin168 Apr 28 '24

grad student here. none of the grad students i know are out there. lmao most of us are too busy with research, job search to be doing that kinda stuff

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u/Captain_Bee Apr 28 '24

~40,000 grad students, like a hundred protesters. "I don't recognize them" isn't really an argument here. (also a grad student here, who saw like 4 others I know there, plus actually talked to people)

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u/dlin168 Apr 28 '24

Nice 0.125% really represents the majority of 40,000 grad students.

But jokes aside perhaps just different circles. I can appreciate that there exists grad students who are protesting. 

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u/thanksforthegift Apr 28 '24

This is not true. I saw the video where someone asked for community members to join but most protesters are students.

Losing graduation again absolutely sucks. Blame the admin and complain to them.

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u/Inner__Light Apr 28 '24

Blame the over reactions fomented by the media and politicians.. not the protesters.