The final results of the three-day protest inside the NYU Kimmel Center are two students arrested, 18 more suspended, no demands met for the protesting group Take Back NYU! and several leftover buckets of unused kitty litter. NYU spokesman James Devitt told reporters, "We offered them a dialogue a couple of times, and they rejected it both times, and then we moved ahead in this regard."
Take Back NYU! however certainly doesn't seem to be showing that they've tasted defeat. In their official statement following the protest they said, "No suspensions, expulsions or arrests can contain what began in the last two days...This protest is just a beginning to what is to come."
NYU Local summarizes the affair with the headline "How a Fringe Group at NYU Went From Being Disliked to Loathed." On their website, 86% of the 1,000-plus respondents to their poll feel that the protest failed to accomplish anything. Take Back NYU! would disagree with that assessment, saying, "When we succeeded, we did so because the passion of our movement shone through the smoke and mirrors cast by the NYU administration. When we failed it was only because we underestimated the lengths NYU will go to in order to deter any real criticism of its policies."
