Boycott the Swim Test until they let us take it in PrezBo's money pool


Boycott the Swim Test until they let us take it in PrezBo's money pool
The Issue
Everyone on this campus knows President Lee C. Bollinger has a comically-large, Scrooge McDuck-like swimming pool filled with money hidden in some secret location around Morningside Heights. Yet for reasons unknown, this University still makes its students* fulfill the Core's Swim Test requirement in a regular water-filled environment, probably called Urea Pool or something bougie like that--as if we were common plebes, rather than the future i-bankers and Supreme Court liberals our parents are paying to become.
Why should we be denied the chance to swim three lengths of a pool surrounded by the most important thing in the world: $20 bills? Is that too much to ask out of an endowment filled with profits from private prisons, fossil fuels and racist hegemony? We think not, and we think Columbia University students** should refrain from completing the Swim Test until such time as President "PrezBo" Bollinger listens to reason and allows us all access to his assuredly massive underground cash pit?
*except SEAS, g-d damn ya'll
**also except barnard? idk just look at WikiCU
The Issue
Everyone on this campus knows President Lee C. Bollinger has a comically-large, Scrooge McDuck-like swimming pool filled with money hidden in some secret location around Morningside Heights. Yet for reasons unknown, this University still makes its students* fulfill the Core's Swim Test requirement in a regular water-filled environment, probably called Urea Pool or something bougie like that--as if we were common plebes, rather than the future i-bankers and Supreme Court liberals our parents are paying to become.
Why should we be denied the chance to swim three lengths of a pool surrounded by the most important thing in the world: $20 bills? Is that too much to ask out of an endowment filled with profits from private prisons, fossil fuels and racist hegemony? We think not, and we think Columbia University students** should refrain from completing the Swim Test until such time as President "PrezBo" Bollinger listens to reason and allows us all access to his assuredly massive underground cash pit?
*except SEAS, g-d damn ya'll
**also except barnard? idk just look at WikiCU
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Petition created on March 7, 2015