What’s happening at Columbia?
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@Jolly said in What’s happening at Columbia?:
Something that very quietly has been happening...We're experiencing a lot of out-of-state students in the SEC, particularly schools like Tennessee, Alabama and Florida. Same goes for Clemson and Florida State.
I'd read or heard recently that half of the student body at Alabama, was not from Alabama.
Why the shift? Less woke? Cheaper tuition? Education quality?
Just yesterday we were chatting with a young staffer in an NC rep’s office. She’s from Charlotte are but went to school at Ole Miss. FEMA guy mentions just what you did, that SEC schools are attracting more and more out of staters.
She said a number of kids from her high school went to Ole Miss and added ‘UNC is just too hard to get into’
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I went on a tour of UMASS Lowell yesterday with No. 1 Son - I was slightly nervous that there'd be protesting. Barring a small number of very polite Cambodians who were quietly protesting something about employment, there was no hint of a protest, and no tension whatsoever.
It's odd that some colleges are virtually in flames, and some seem to be carrying on completely as normal.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in What’s happening at Columbia?:
I went on a tour of UMASS Lowell yesterday with No. 1 Son - I was slightly nervous that there'd be protesting. Barring a small number of very polite Cambodians who were quietly protesting something about employment, there was no hint of a protest, and no tension whatsoever.
It's odd that some colleges are virtually in flames, and some seem to be carrying on completely as normal.
Maybe the list that George found on X is correct.
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When I was at Purdue in the late 80s I had a professor who had been a student there in the 60s.
He said the joke at the time was that Purdue was a “hotbed of student rest”.
DON’T let them eat cake.
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@jon-nyc said in What’s happening at Columbia?:
When I was at Purdue in the late 80s I had a professor who had been a student there in the 60s.
When I was faculty at Northwestern, throughout the 1980s, I had been a student there in the late 1960s.
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We had a fair amount of unrest when I was at Manchester in the 80's. It was right in the middle of the miner's strike, and feelings were running pretty high, particularly in the north of England. Leon Brittan, the Home Secretary, showed up to speak and there was a big protest with about 500 people, with a load of arrests. I think he got eggs thrown at him.
I seem to remember one of our physics lecturers encouraged us to attend the protest, but honestly I couldn't be bothered. Story of my life.
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When I was in college, what little protesting I saw was all about ending Apartheid.
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"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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@Mik said in What’s happening at Columbia?:
Yep. All about South Africa. It was just on the bulletin boards, not actual protests that I can remember.
I thought your generation would have been protesting The New Deal.
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"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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@Mik said in What’s happening at Columbia?:
Jeez. Who shit in your oatmeal?
Hey, I modernized it a bit. I nearly said the repeal of the Corn Laws.
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He is careful not to upset the terrorists, what a thoughtful man.
President Biden broke his silence on Thursday regarding the anti-Israel demonstrations that are roiling colleges and universities around the nation, condemning the violence that has broken out and saying that "there's the right to protest, but not the right to cause chaos."
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Hard to disagree with his position.
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Approximately 134 of the 282 people taken into custody at Columbia University and CCNY were not affiliated with either school -- more than 47%.
Janice Yu is live in Morningside Heights with details on the pro-Palestine protest.
At Columbia, 32 people arrested were not affiliated with the school, while about 80 people were. At CCNY, 102 people arrested were not affiliated, and 68 were.The estimates are based on preliminary background analysis by NYPD. The city is forwarding the lists of arrested protesters to the universities to cross-check and determine the current status of those arrested.
"There were individuals on the campus that should not have been there," Adams said. "There were people who are professionals. We know the terminology 'outside agitator' was used during the Civil Rights movement, when people attempted to show that the movement was not legitimate, and we understand that."
For some, the term "outside agitator" brings back memories of the Civil Rights movement. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously wrote about being called an outside agitator in the now-historic letter from the Birmingham jail in April 1963.
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Great news, Yemen is offering any students expelled to come to Sanaa university to complete their degrees. Those houthis, really looking out for the displaced academics
