We hold these truths to be self evident that all pupils are accepted on the same basis. And commuting is a financial and personal decision that should not be used against the pupil. We as pupils have the right to speak up and ask for changes that have not been provided. Not only do the unjust circumstances skew our ability to be equal to residential students, but have skewed our ability to do our best in the class. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations reduce us it is our right and duty in accordance with the Bill of Rights and free speech to request these changes. Such has been the patient sufferance of these pupils; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former of systems of New York University. The history of the present New York University is a history of repeated injuries. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused proper transportation
He has denied us adequately priced food
He has neglected to provide spacious working facilities
He has made us subjects to 5 am train rides
He has accommodated clubs to serve only to Residential students
He has denied us our rightful college social life
For taking away opportunities to establish networking sources
For demanding outrageous costs at our inconvenience
For creating a dispersal of funds which are in favor of Residential students
In every semester of these Oppressions we have endured these grievances with humble terms: Our endurance has been responded with repeated denial of adequate treatment. We are NYU students as well, and deserve the right to be treated with compensation of time, fair transportation, and warm meals.
We have, from time to time, made known our presence and important to NYU’s student life. We have reminded the King on multiple accounts the circumstances of our emigration and travel here on campus. We are not, in any pretension, wishing harm to our NYU Housing Brethren. However, the oppressions of the Commuter life have inevitably interrupted the status of our exams and class schedules. Professors and TAs too have been deaf to the voice of justice and camaraderie. We must, therefore, commute in necessity, and denounce the evils that have been burdened upon the commuter nature, and declare our rightful separation from past injustices.
We, the commuters of NYU, therefore have no other choice than to secede from the main campus of NYU, appealing to the supreme leader of the nation, John Sexton, and carry on with our studies into a newly established campus at a more reasonable distance to our residence. We solemnly declare and write out our departure from NYU’s main campus, as a newly established campus we reserve the right to fair treatment and acknowledgement of the NYU faculty. We resolve that as long as we are commuters we shall put forth all of our investments of education into the newly established campus, where it may be our tuition, student loans, or time.
By:
Georgie Fu
Wendy Tigre
Nikki Herrick
Maggie
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