Posted on 04/29/2024 3:40:41 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Students defied Columbia University's orders to vacate their pro-Palestinian protest by 2 p.m. Monday, despite warnings of suspension and after the school's president said it would not divest from Israel — a demand that has sparked protests on college campuses across the country.
"We have begun suspending students," Ben Chang, vice president for communications and a spokesperson for the university, said around 5 p.m., about three hours after the deadline passed.
The university had told student demonstrators to vacate by 2 p.m. or else “be suspended pending further investigation” and barred from completing the spring semester.
At the encampment, now in its second week, participants voted nearly unanimously to stay put.
Around 2:45 p.m. — after the 2 p.m. warning time to leave — protesters marched on the quad and chanted “Disclose! Divest! We will not slow, we will not rest!’"
A part of the encampment has been cleared to make space for the upcoming commencement ceremony for graduates, and picketers are largely sticking to the perimeters of the encampment.
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Some good news - Pedo Pete just illegally paid off their student loans with tax dollars.
Boy, that is throwing the pamphlet at them.
They should have been expelled.
No doubt most of their parents were PROUD of the sick, genocidal, behavior of their kids (since they associate Israel with Trump). Now their kids, rather than getting rich climbing the corporate ladder are going to be climbing other types of ladders and will be BASKET CASES for their parents, for the rest of their miserable lives.
Suspend? Expel.
Exactly, the suspensions won’t amount to much at all.
My thoughts exactly.
Knock them over with your feather, Columbia.
I hate to say it, but the parents brought it on themselves.
Wowie-gee, they might suspend as many as ten students. That’s because the faculty cannot count more numbers than they have fingers.
In another thread, some said the college would do nothiing. Wrong again.
“I hate to say it, but the parents brought it on themselves.”
ABSOLUTELY - I wonder how losing the cool $400k invested in their kids compares to the cost of instead sending those kids to a private high school with American values.
Suspend my ass the best thing to do is EXPEL these pieces of crap and also ship the ones back to their home countries who are foreign nationals and have visas..the rest of them, plaster their names EVERYWHERE so future employers can see who they are hiring
They should be expelled instead of suspended and transcripts withheld.
Deport the ones who are here on student visas. Quickly.
Suspending them won’t bother them. Expel them with unpaid and immediately due student loans. That’ll fix them!
...like yesterday!
Suspension? Later reinstated with parent’s lawyers threatening to sue.😉💼👨⚖️⚖️🥳
Arrested? Amnesty demanded and amnesty soon given. 😉💼👨⚖️⚖️🥳
A little low on the justice and the deterrence.😄👨🎓👩🎓🥳
That’s the Eeyore wing of Conservative, Inc.
There are a few on this thread, too.
Any victory is minimized or belittled. “So Regan won…he didn’t yet Minnesota and DC.”
I see this, and look with gleeful anticipation for the Dem Convention and a replay of 1968. And it’s in Chicago - back at the Scene of the Crime.
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