Our Decleration of Indepencance

Ashley Augustin

Deniss Leon

Ibrahim Mozawalla

Tabara Sy

       Our Declaration of Independence

When in the course of non existent campuses it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve structural bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal stations to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to a separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that not all campus’ are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Space to Walk, a Closed off campus, and the Pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, a Gated Community instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of university students and faculty. That whenever non university students and faculty enter the campus becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the students to alter or abolish it and to institute new campus borders laying its foundation on such principles of recognizing and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect university students commute and safety within the campus. When a long train of abuses and lack of a gated campus community, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute campus invasion, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such standards, and to provide new Guards for their future sanity. --Such has been patient sufferance of these university students and faculty; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former open campus. The history of the present New York University campus is a history of repeated injuries and campus invasion, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over the university students and faculty members. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

-He has through his own selfish ways made us suffer through the endless construction contaminating our already crowded streets.

-He has taken control of our sidewalks

-He has injured us through an overpopulated city filled with amateur bikers

-He has driven our drivers to become mad with rage

- He has intruded on our conversations with his strident machines

- He has obstructed the basic college need of a football team.

-He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, the stench of those who don’t have the means to shower and stand on the corners awaiting the students.

-He has distorted the view of Washington square park through the infestation of rats

In every stage of these Oppressions, We have Petitioned for Redress in the most ambivalent terms: Our repeated Complaints haven't been answered and the more we complain the more spread out our campus becomes. A campus without boundaries is no real campus at all.

Nor have we been wanting in campus brethren. We have warned them of our struggle navigating the streets of our campus. We have reminded them of our circumstances time and time and time again, yet our request is neglected. They too have been deaf to the voice of the student body. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and holds them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in the city campus, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the United Student Body, in General Congress, Assembled appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in Name, and by Authority of our peers, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Student Body are, and of Right ought to be Free and independent, that they are able to commute around campus without extra disturbance. That they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the college campus and that all connections between them and the campus streets, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent students, they have the full power to be unsettled and discontent while walking the noisy streets next the 25,000 students that attend the campus with no walls. They have full power to shove people when they walking too slow, and not stop for the signal lights on every corner, push bikers, walk into potholes without regards without caution tapes, and orange cones on every street. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.