New: Columbia University Hands the Reins Back to Woke Students in Stunning Display of Cowardice

Red State ^ | 05/03/2024 | Sister Toldjah

[SeekAndFind]

As we noted earlier, though the Columbia University pro-Hamas encampment and Hamilton Hall occupation have both been cleared, it's pretty evident the lunatics are still running the asylum there, as evidenced by a plea from the Columbia Law Review student editors for law school administrators to "cancel exams and give passing grades for their work throughout the semester."

The reasons cited?  "The violence we witnessed last night has irrevocably shaken many of us... we also know this to be the same for a majority of our classmates."

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READ: Jonathan Turley Lays Some Reality on New Laughable Demand From Columbia Law Students

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For those who missed the letter, here's what it said in full.

As pathetic of a demand as that was - especially considering that the legal profession is no place for wimps, what is even more pathetic is that apparently, some professors on campus have shown a willingness to oblige.

David Bernstein, a law professor at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School, shared the following excerpt from an email sent out by one of the profs at Columbia, which stated that their students' final exam had been canceled and that they would all be getting As because of current academic "conditions":

"I am canceling our final next Wednesday, as [I/we] simply cannot pretend that academic business can go on under current conditions. You have all received a grade of A for the course.

Please take good care of yourselves."

From an email from a Columbia professor to his class. No final exam, and everyone gets an A. Is Columbia going to allow professors to literally not do their jobs?


pic.twitter.com/X4KukVg7q1— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) May 3, 2024

While it is easy to dunk on that professor for the decision, it should be noted that on Wednesday, Columbia announced how final exams were to be handled in light of current events, and the guidance included options like making sure the exam grade did not negatively impact their overall grade or outright canceling the exams altogether:

In order to address the concerns of our members in an evolving campus environment, all academic activities for schools on the Morningside Heights campus will be fully remote for the remainder of the semester (with carve-outs noted below). Any remaining class meetings, review sessions, or office hours should be held fully remotely, and all final exams and other final assessments should be fully remote. Instructors should be in touch with students in their classes as soon as practicable to explain how the remote version of final exams and final assessments will be conducted. Please see more guidance below on possible adjustments that instructors might make.

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Adjustments to final exams/assessments:

• Faculty are encouraged to provide accommodations in their final assessments which may include giving a take-home final, modifying the final’s weight, adjusting the grading policy such that the final exam does not negatively impact the final grade (i.e. a no-harm final), making the final exam optional, or canceling the final exam. Faculty are encouraged to consult the academic deans of their schools for support in considering which option may be best for their classes.

Just pathetic, and what a terrible example to set, especially coming from the top. 

Columbia continues to be an example of how not to handle student activism that gets wildly out of hand, and parents who are looking at higher education institutions to see if they would be good fits for their teenage children might want to consider crossing Columbia off their lists. 

Because students throwing tantrums as a way to get out of doing the hard work - and administrators going along with it - is not how it is supposed to be done, and the only way Columbia will learn at this point is for people to simply walk away from it... en masse.

Related-->> Insanity: This Is How Columbia Administrators Are 'Policing' the Pro-Hamas Student Encampment

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

The left ensures that all government funding advances a left-wing agenda.

The right plays in accordance with the Marquess of Queensberry Rules.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Correction:

Columbia University Hands the Reins Back to Woke Students Outside Agitators in Stunning Display of Cowardice

[MinorityRepublican]

The buck stops with the President.

[21twelve]

Just like in the 60’s and 70’s. The professional Communists would get the kids organized and riled up. Torch some buildings and cars to get the police riled up, and then leave. The students (with Spring Fever) treating it like a party until the police start arresting them (or the National Guard shooting them like 54 years ago at Kent State - May 4th.)

[353FMG]

Columbia: Fly the Palestine rag and be a coward.

[353FMG]

Columbia: Fly the Palestine rag and be a coward.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

or the National Guard shooting them like 54 years ago at Kent State

My only complaint about Kent State is not enough protestors were shot.

[combat_boots]

Looke here

https://t.me/beholdisraelchannel/31698

[RoosterRedux]

Coward? Or complicity?

[AbolishCSEU]

Yeah we know what this “Prof’s” agenda/political leanings are. Plus so much less work for that huge salary. Just give ‘em an A.

[metmom]

Which encourages the anarchists and makes things worse for the entire country as groups like this everywhere will be emboldened to ramp things up.

[DeplorablePaul]

spoiled brats

[9YearLurker]

And in another stunning display, here is a NYTimes story full of defenses and excuses for some of the arrested, professional agitators:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/nyregion/columbia-protests-arrest-agitators-israel.html

[AndyJackson]

Law firms should cancel the summer internships for Columbia law school students who were gifted their As.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I stopped hiring from ivy league schools over 10 years ago. They have no original thoughts, cannot support their arguments with actual data and spend more time telling their teammates “the problem is” than finding solutions.

Just look at climate change. These morons keep telling us what the problem is (there isn’t one) but when asked what the solution is, more often than not wind up calling those questioning them a racist.

[Salman]

It is really cowardice? Or do the powers that be at Columbia really approve of the ‘Death to America’ crowd and need deniability?

[linMcHlp]

“Something must be done about it.”

[cnsmom]

Eric Holder and Obama must be loving seeing their Columbia days dreams coming together

[cymbeline]

I presume Columbia management is doing what they think is best long-term financially for their university. Thats’ what I’d do.

They might not be making the correct decisions. Time will tell.

I’m not worried about the health of Universities. There will always be young people that want to learn and succeed. There will always be parents that want to help them. There will always be some places to go for post-high-school learning.

A post-high-school school doesn’t need to have expensive frills.