US Education Secretary Linda McMahon alleges that Columbia ignored the harassment of its Jewish students: 'This is not only immoral, but also unlawful.' If the university is stripped of its accreditation, it will lose all access to federal funds, while its students will also lose access to federal grants and loans towards tuition.
    • @floo@retrolemmy.comEnglish
      63•13 days ago

      All of their parents money and every brown and black person expelled from the country. Why? What did you think they wanted it? Because they’ve been extremely clear and obvious about what they want.

    • @givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      37•13 days ago

      Have you been paying attention?

      If you aplease fascists, they just ask for more. Because you already caved once, they’ll expect you to again

      That’s the whole thing with the saying about “just give Poland to Hitler, that way he’s happy”.

      Like, it’s up there with “never start a land war in Asia” and “don’t invade Russia in winter” on the list of cliche military lessons.

    • @cabron_offsets@lemmy.world
      23•13 days ago

      They obviously want to topple a top school to show the others what’s coming if they don’t submit totally and immediately.

      Columbia is lost already. It’ll forever be a bitch school, if it continues to exist.

      • @lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        35•13 days ago

        They did that, too.

        The lengths to which administrators have been willing to go also suggests their actions are not mere capitulation, but rather a strategic alignment with the Trump administration.

        On March 5, nine Barnard students were arrested for staging a sit-in to demand the administration reverse the prior expulsions of three student activists. Soon after, Columbia updated its public safety protocols to allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, on campus without a judicial warrant in the case of “exigent circumstances.”

        Then, on March 8, Mahmoud Khalil, a recent master’s graduate who was a lead negotiator with the Columbia administration during the Gaza solidarity encampment, was detained by ICE.

        Columbia never responded to his email pleading the university for protection the day before his detainment.

        On March 11, Ranjani Srinivasan, an international graduate student whose visa was revoked by the Department of Homeland Security on the spurious charge of being “involved in activities supporting Hamas,” fled into hiding and eventually to Canada after Columbia withdrew her from her Ph.D. program and the university’s campus security allegedly allowed ICE into her apartment.

        Two days later, Columbia allegedly allowed ICE into the dorm room of Yunseo Chung, a junior at Columbia who was arrested at a pro-Palestine protest.

        That same day, 20 more students were expelled, including Grant Miner, the president of the student workers union.

        The Trump administration had delivered what Katherine Franke, a Columbia faculty member forced into early retirement for her pro-Palestine views, called a “ransom note.”

        It gave the university a week to, among other things, suspend or expel student activists, centralize disciplinary procedures in the Office of the Provost, implement severe restrictions on public assembly, adopt the definition of anti-Zionism as antisemitism, and impose administrative oversight of the Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies Department as well as the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies and the university’s Tel Aviv program.

        Columbia not only acquiesced to all the demands of said letter, but exceeded Trump’s dictates by suspending faculty governance of the Center for Palestine Studies

        Cowards & bitches lacking principles & integrity.

    • @chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      5•12 days ago

      Give them an inch, and they’ll disappear people to a concentration camp on foreign soil without charges.

      Never bend to a fascist.