The band of hooligans who launched an ill-fated bid to take over the New School are a bumbling brood of terrorists that deserve to be locked up, the university’s embattled president said today.
“They put on black masks and wander around New York City? We still remember 9/11 around here,” Bob Kerrey told The Post, as the 22 students were paraded in front of a Manhattan arraignment judge on a laundry list of charges.
Kerrey laughed off the half-baked attempt by New School and NYU students to ultimately overthrow his administration.
“An illegal occupation of a building is not a legitimate protest,” he said. “There’s a long list of legitimate ways to protest a university. This isn’t one of them.”
On Friday, protesters decked out in dark hoods and scarves over their faces seized a university tower on Fifth Avenue and 14th Street and demanded Kerrey’s resignation.
They injured a security guard and swiped a cell phone from a janitor at 5:30 a.m. Friday morning before locking down the building for about five hours.
“I called the NYPD and said there are people who have broken into our building and I want them removed,” said Kerrey. “If they do it again, I’ll call again.”
The rabble-rousers were far less intimidating at court today, where their friends could be heard calling around begging for bail money to keep their pals out of Rikers Island.
This is the second student protest to unseat Kerrey in five months, but the former Senator from Nebraska said he is resolved to keep his seat, “unless the quality of my life deteriorates.”