Columbia University faculty ‘horrified’ by mass arrests of student protesters
Columbia University faculty say they are “horrified” by Tuesday night’s arrests of students by New York police following the occupation of an academic building, Hamilton Hall, by students protesting for the university to divest from Israel.
Just after 9.30pm on Tuesday night, NYPD buses parked outside the hall were filled with arrested students who were transported away from campus.
Bassam Khawaja, a lecturer at Columbia law school, said on Wednesday that he was “horrified to see Columbia invite police onto our campus for the second time this month to arrest our students”.
“Columbia has chosen escalation at every turn here, with disastrous results,” Khawaja said. “The administration said that the protests were a disruption and presented safety risks, but it is the administration itself that has disrupted campus life by locking us out, relocating or postponing students’ exams, bringing in police to arrest students, and inviting police to remain on campus for the next two weeks until graduation.”
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 2, 2024 4:52 AM
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The reality is that Columbia gave the students every opportunity to leave. Thankfully students that actually care about their education can study for exams now.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 2, 2024 2:07 AM
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I wonder when the Ivy Leagues are going to realize that regular people have started to hate them.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 2, 2024 2:08 AM
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Columbia students and faculty live in such a bubble that to even regular NY liberals they come off as bizarre and out of touch with reality.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 2, 2024 2:10 AM
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The Columbia faculty can go fuck themselves. The student demonstrators were acting like bigoted, racist, nasty, arrogant little pricks who were not peacefully protesting, they were harassing, threatening, and bullying Jewish students and faculty and anyone who they deemed unacceptable. These people are trying desperately to recreate the 1960s.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 2, 2024 2:26 AM
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R2, as a regular person I can say I've hated the Ivy's and their privileged asshole students for most of my life.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 2, 2024 4:15 AM
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[quote] [R2], as a regular person I can say I've hated the Ivy's and their privileged asshole students for most of my life.
Because of your punctuation deficiencies?
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 2, 2024 4:17 AM
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