Columbia University canceled its main commencement ceremony following weeks of anti-Israel activism and strife, prompting accusations that the Ivy League school has surrendered to protesters. The university said Monday that it would center its graduation celebration on the small-school graduations and Class Days scheduled to take place from May 10-16, nixing the university-wide graduation ceremony that had […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University is canceling its large university-wide commencement ceremony amid ongoing pro-Palestinian protests but will hold smaller school-based ceremonies this week and next, the university announced Monday. “Based on feedback from our students, we have decided to focus attention on our Class Days and school-level graduation ceremonies, where students are honored individually […]
After weeks of often-violent protests that smeared Columbia’s University with the stain of anti-Semitism, the student editors of the Columbia Law Review say the few hours of police action to clear the occupation of one campus building has left them way too stressed to take their final exams. “The violence we witnessed last night has […]
Student journalists on the Columbia University campus knew what was coming long before police with riot shields arrived to begin arresting the pro-Palestinian protesters. They had watched the situation spiral as the protesters stood their ground, refusing to abandon Hamilton Hall and using a pulley system to bring supplies into the building they had occupied. […]
Once upon a time, long ago, there was a reasonable assumption that colleges would prepare students for adulthood. As odd as it may seem, graduates were expected to depart the hallowed halls of learning with the necessary tools to function in society, especially when it came to graduate students. […]
As I mentioned earlier today, there has been a lot of discussion about “outside instigators” at the various Liberated Zones set up on campuses around the country. In general, the left has downplayed or dismissed the idea that the protesters are anything but progressive students. On the other hand, less progressive Democrats seem almost eager […]
It turns out that nearly half of the anti-Israel student protesters taken into custody at Columbia University and the City College of New York weren’t exactly students. An estimated 134 of the 282 demonstrators arrested late Tuesday — that’s 47.5% — had no affiliation with the two New York colleges, according to preliminary police department […]
The leaders of tomorrow were followers of outsiders during the anti-Israel protests at New York City colleges, according to New York Police Department data. Of the 282 demonstrators arrested when NYPD officers ended the occupation of a building at Columbia University and dispersed tent encampments at Columbia and the City College of New York, 134 […]
On Wednesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg refused to say whether he will prosecute the pro-Palestinian rioters who broke into and took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University. Bragg is currently prosecuting Donald Trump for an alleged campaign finance violation that is normally tried as a misdemeanor offense and […]
New York City police cleared out protesters who were barricaded inside a Columbia University building on Tuesday and removed a two-week-old tent city that was a hotbed of rage against Israel. Police stormed into Hamilton Hall at about 9 p.m., gaining access through a second-floor window, according to the New York Post. Police deployed four […]
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