What’s happening at Columbia?
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Was listening to NPR in the car. Some professor was decrying the various administrations’ actions, saying that this is just students expressing themselves and learning how to research and analyze ideas. So these demands to divest, etc are all about education
"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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Protest is fine - but no one seems to have heard of Ghandi. We had a group of hecklers disrupt the local village board meeting - shouting down everyone there as they wished the board to vote a resolution in support of (I don't care). Several people attending the meeting noted that the hecklers amazingly did nothing to endear themselves to the other citizenry and in fact, made them feel disinclined to support their cause.
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Great. Where’s the protest over Syria?
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What do you think happens when a Columbia Alum send an application to Liebowitz, Goldstein, and Phipps next year?
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@kluurs said in What’s happening at Columbia?:
Protest is fine - but no one seems to have heard of Ghandi. We had a group of hecklers disrupt the local village board meeting - shouting down everyone there as they wished the board to vote a resolution in support of (I don't care). Several people attending the meeting noted that the hecklers amazingly did nothing to endear themselves to the other citizenry and in fact, made them feel disinclined to support their cause.
This entire country needs to read Dale Carnegie.
"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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@Mik said in What’s happening at Columbia?:
@kluurs said in What’s happening at Columbia?:
Protest is fine - but no one seems to have heard of Ghandi. We had a group of hecklers disrupt the local village board meeting - shouting down everyone there as they wished the board to vote a resolution in support of (I don't care). Several people attending the meeting noted that the hecklers amazingly did nothing to endear themselves to the other citizenry and in fact, made them feel disinclined to support their cause.
This entire country needs to read Dale Carnegie.
No protests at Luke’s school. Course, it’s a small college, and 1/3 of the incoming students go through a leadership program (they actually have a leadership minor that Luke is completing). The first 2 weeks? Dale Carnegie… -
@LuFins-Dad said in What’s happening at Columbia?:
Great. Where’s the protest over Syria?
That was okay. Just Arab Ba’athists and their Russian nanny working together to kill other Arabs. No loss, quite a few of them just needed killing.
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@LuFins-Dad said in What’s happening at Columbia?:
Great. Where’s the protest over Syria?
Exactly. Ask those protesters how many Palestinians have been killed in Syria?
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Trump had an interesting statement...To paraphrase: When elected president, I will make sure civil rights of all students are observed at universities. Failure to do so will result in fines, including going after endowments.
I can see the fines, but how can you legally attack an endowment?
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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I think we're in big trouble.
I firmly believe in a free speech area on campus. Protest, scream, argue and persuade to your heart's content. At LSU, it used to be called Free Speech Alley, where as long as it didn't get physical or break any laws such as public nudity or shooting up drugs, you could say or do about what you wanted to. But your time at the university would be very short if you wanted to carry that stuff out of the alley to where it impinged upon other students and their education.
