Around 75 parents and students staged a protest on Wednesday. Some children claimed their 'furry' peers were biting and scratching people. However, a spokesperson for the district slammed the claims as 'untrue'
Columbia University president Minouche Shafik is no stranger to navigating complex international issues, having worked at some of the world’s most prominent global financial institutions. At the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, for example, she tackled both the European debt crisis and the Arab Spring. It remains to be seen, however, if her []
Lawmakers are urging President Joe Biden to send the National Guard to Columbia University as it deals with intense and sometimes violent anti-Israel protests. A dueling coalition of Democratic and Republican lawmakers visited the university to condemn the anti-Semitic, pro-Palestinian protests and called for the immediate resignation of the institution's president.The demonstrations have been ongoing since last Wednesday and have seen outbreaks of violence and arrests, including the detention...
The right to peacefully protest is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution -- but when does someone’s right to protest break the law?
by WorldTribune Staff, April 21, 2024 A female student at a Pennsylvania middle school charged teachers and administrators with not stopping, despite her warnings, a boy who identifies as a girl from brutally assaulting a female student. The assault took place at the Pennbrook Middle School cafeteria on Wednesday, when the 13-year-old trans student used […]
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Shafaqna English- UT Austin’s faculty condemn university leaders’s decision to “invite city policy to campus in response to a planned peaceful event and said faculty members won’t teach because of the school’s militarized response to a student event. One of the largest demonstrations took place at the University of Texas
Aniko Bodroghkozy, who participated in protest on Columbia's campus in 1985, spoke with TIME about how recent protests compare to other moments in the school's history some 40 and 56 years back.
Students and faculty members at Georgia Southern University participating in a sit-in Monday.
Officials at Columbia University, facing surging tensions on campus, have taken steps to try to address students' concerns over safety and freedom of expression.
NEW YORK — Students who occupied a Columbia University building vowed Tuesday to fight back against efforts to evict them, as administrators struggled to contain pro-Palestinian protests that have launched dozens of campus demonstrations around the United States. The demonstrations — the most sweeping and prolonged unrest to rock U.S. college campuses since the Vietnam war protests of the 1960s and 70s — have led to several hundred arrests of students and other activists. Many of them have vowed...
TOPEKA (KSNT) - A sweeping tax plan vetoed by Governor Laura Kelly is getting a second chance after Legislators voted to override the veto decision Friday. Kansas representatives voted to override Kelly's veto at 104 to 15 on April 26. The tax package, Substitute for House Bill 2036, now moves to the Senate for a []