Let’s make a deal
According to Gothamist, Columbia has disciplined more than 70 students for activism around Palestine. More than 2/3 of those students have been suspended or expelled. In return, Columbia is trying to negotiate about one billion dollars in research grants that Trump has frozen. That’s roughly $14.3 million per every punished student. I guess that’s a good deal for Columbia, huh? Not so good for education and freedom, though.
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4 Comments
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Geoff Dewan
I’ve always wondered how Edward Said lasted there for so long…
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Collaborators? Too generic. Quislings, Pétainistes? Too historically circumscribed. Trumplickers? Just right……
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John Van sickle
Meanwhile Harvard Education Review killed a Palestinian issue with many scholarly articles reports the Guardian
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HistoryNoLie
It’s not surprising in the least… in fact, I expect it. It’s in their DNA, it’s what the Ivy’s and other “elite” universities were created for… training the children of the ruling class. They pretend to be this “we stand for the free expression of ideas”. Reminds me of the Clash song, Know Your Rights…
You have the right to free speech
As long as you’re not
Dumb enough to actually try itBut, these “elite institutions of higher learning” have recently been further exposed by their slovenly actions. Stealing a line from a recent Onion newspaper that was sent to Congress but clearly applies to these worthless institutions “Now more than ever, our nation needs your cowardice”. And they did not disappoint.
