My Oh My Has Student Protest Come A Long Way
Okay, what’s the butter about. I’ll get there. Follow me. This video is from a few years ago, but it might as well have been yesterday. Students at Princeton protesting…
Okay, what's the butter about. I'll get there. Follow me.
This video is from a few years ago, but it might as well have been yesterday. Students at Princeton protesting over a building being named after President Woodrow Wilson, a known racist.
Big time social protest.
WOW! Student protest sure has come a long way. As have their grievances (get ready for the butter). It was this week, some 254 years ago (September 23, 1766) that the first college campus protest occurred-at a time when there were just seven colleges in Colonial America.
It took place at Harvard. The students were not pleased with on-campus dining (which makes them no different than students today-btw). Specifically, they'd had it with rancid butter.
The "Butter Rebellion" began with the chant “Behold, our butter stinketh!” About half the student body supported the complaint, and they took to dining in nearby taverns.
Administration, in a surprise move, caved and replaced the offensive, Colonial, Parkay. <g>
