THE General Body believes it will be victorious in the end. However, due to their recent actions, it is almost a reality that they will only win what the administration has already gave them, which was mentioned in the most recent email by the school.

What THE General Body fails to realize is that they are not actually supporting the entire campus — only a small percentage — and it is egregious of them to believe that they will get everything they mentioned in their shocking, 45 page grievance list. The majority of students either 1) still do not know what is going on, 2) believe THE General Body is ridiculous, or 3) simply do not care. Supporters of THE General Body say to the majority that they are ignorant and part of the white-privileged, hetero-hierarchy, racist institution that is Syracuse University.

THE General Body seems to condone these statements or simply ignores the fact that they are coming from the supporters.

According to a petition started by THE General Body, only 743 people have signed it and they say that there are about 20,000 people in the school. If we round up the first number to an even thousand, we see that approximately only 5 percent of the school actually supports them. With 95 percent of the school in the other three categories I mentioned above, it is clear that THE General Body is not, in fact, a full representation of the general body.

As I mentioned earlier, some of the radical comments made by supporters of THE General Body have also deterred people from joining them. On the social media app, Yik Yak (I understand its not a good example), many people have in fact voiced an opinion against THE General Body because of said radical comments and the supporters go on and make more radical comments on the posts.

If THE General Body wants to see some change, then they must reason with compromise, but it is quite clear that some stubborn are like a mule. They claim they are willing to negotiate, but stick their noses up when the school offers to negotiate. Supporters say to be suspicious of any news from The Daily Orange or from the school, yet that is how must students learn about this.

Their immaturity toward the actions by the administration of a PRIVATE INSTITUTION has destroyed any chances of the sit-in being successful.

Ben Castaneda
Broadcast & Digital Journalism
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Class of 2017

Published on November 11, 2014 at 12:01 am