Democrats scrutinize Columbia: A crew of Home Democrats—21 in whole—simply despatched a letter to Columbia’s board of trustees telling them it is time to “act decisively” and that they are disillusioned that “Columbia College has not but disbanded the unauthorized and impermissible encampment of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish activists on campus….
“If any Trustees are unwilling to do that, they need to resign in order that they are often changed by people who will uphold the College’s authorized obligations beneath Title VI,” the legislators wrote. (Title VI “prohibits discrimination on the premise of race, coloration, and nationwide origin in applications and actions receiving federal monetary help.”)
Democrats had not but exerted a lot public stress on universities to close down their tent-city pro-Palestine encampments; that has principally been a Republican mission. And since Columbia is a non-public college, directors ostensibly ought to have the ability to make the selections they deem greatest with out interference from authorities officers. Moreover, legislators ought to in all probability be extra involved with the warfare in Gaza, and the American function in it, than with the Coachella Lites we’re seeing on school campuses.
However one theme made obvious by the Columbia encampment, and by Harvard’s Claudine Homosexual scandal earlier than it, is that college directors are lastly receiving scrutiny they’ve lengthy deserved; there is a palpable sense that a lot of them are ineffective at truly imposing guidelines, that they permit so-called “microaggressions” and bullying when such ways are in service of left-wing scholar causes, and that these college students are merely not busy sufficient nor studying very a lot.
It seems to be like an American seriousness disaster in sluggish movement. If our elite colleges aren’t producing industrious individuals with essential pondering expertise, what good are they precisely?
Scenes from New York: Pondering you are on “the fitting aspect of historical past”—as Rep. Ilhan Omar (D–Minn.) says in regards to the Columbia protesters—appears to justify quite a lot of unhealthy habits, and stifle self-reflection.
“I by no means thought… [the] motion can be this huge.”
Congresswoman @Ilhan visited the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia College and stated college students are on “the fitting aspect of historical past.” pic.twitter.com/6BTguAPzxk
— AJ+ (@ajplus) April 29, 2024
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