The 322-page joint report from the ACLU and Amnesty International claims that the University violated free speech rights and imposed more punitive punishments for pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
It's not just those tasked to protect young women who fail them. It's all of us. Doe told Cornell’s student newspaper that in the aftermath of her rape, she was disappointed by the lack of support she got from the student community.
Leaders of powerful institutions do have a choice. The price of allowing the preferences of any president to dictate the policies and practices of organizations that depend on freedom and autonomy is to destroy the legitimacy of those organizations.
The university at large has sold out our students. But there are hundreds of faculty on this campus dedicated to the right of our students to learn, debate, protest, research, and report without fear.
Doing the Time Warp again
The Palestinian activist discusses the Columbia protests, ICE detention and free speech in the U.S. The government wanted others like him to fear them. It wanted noncitizens and immigrants to stop speaking out. If they could do this to Khalil...
Columbia University reached agreement with the Trump administration to pay $200 million for "violations;." also agreed to establish a $21 million fund to “compensate employees who may have experienced antisemitism." One professor asks for his share.
It is now obvious that antisemitism was never the real reason for the Trump administration’s attacks on universities. What lessons can we learn from this great exploitation? And now we have Columbia University caving in to Donald Trump.
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