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I've been on campus for quite a few years now, and I had yet to see a real live protest....All of that changed today.

I'm sitting in my office on campus, and I hear some cheering and shouting outside, and I see about 15 students with signs leading the protest surrounded by about 30 other students between the SUB and the Library. Naturally I head outside to investigate what is going on. Turns out that it wasn't a protest, it was a snow-test. Students in goggles wearing skiing/snowboarding/hockey apparel are angered by the warm weather and lack of good skiing and are picketing campus for more snow. They are yelling chants such as "Heck no, we want snow" "What do we want...SNOW...when do we want it....NOW" and my personal favorite "Powder to the people".

Days like today, remind me of why I love living in Bozeman.....Gotta love our students.

wbtfg wrote:I've been on campus for quite a few years now, and I had yet to see a real live protest....All of that changed today.

I'm sitting in my office on campus, and I hear some cheering and shouting outside, and I see about 15 students with signs leading the protest surrounded by about 30 other students between the SUB and the Library. Naturally I head outside to investigate what is going on. Turns out that it wasn't a protest, it was a snow-test. Students in goggles wearing skiing/snowboarding/hockey apparel are angered by the warm weather and lack of good skiing and are picketing campus for more snow. They are yelling chants such as "Heck no, we want snow" "What do we want...SNOW...when do we want it....NOW" and my personal favorite "Powder to the people".

Days like today, remind me of why I love living in Bozeman.....Gotta love our students.

That is great! Where do I sign up for the next protest...gotta do my part too I suppose.

If it had been me protesting this lovely weather, you would have heard, "white power, white power, white power...". But I see how that could send the wrong message.

Mung wrote

If it had been me protesting this lovely weather, you would have heard, "white power, white power, white power...". But I see how that could send the wrong message

Not funny dude, get some class!

The only protest I recall was the day "Ma Green" was hung in effigy. Ma Green was the head of food services for the dorms. Many felt the dorm food was "inferior" and constructed a straw dummy, clothed it in a white smock and chefs cap, hung a sign reading "Ma Green" around it's neck, set it on fire and sent it up the flag pole located on the walkway to the old gym between the library and Reid Hall. I think a couple of guys were booted, not so much for torching Ma Green (even the university admistrators had to admit she had it coming) but for destroying the flag pole rope, thereby defacing university property.