Remember when we were all told to “Mask up”? Well perhaps it’s time for us to change that rule. How about: “Mask off.”
Columbia Law students want their final exams canceled in the name of Palestine.
The group argues the school has become ‘ground zero’ for antisemitism and ‘hatred’ of diverse viewpoints
Columbia made new rules after 1968 to protect students from mass arrests. Ignoring those rules has left a “sense of alienation and violation by students that is unlike anything I’ve ever seen,” said a professor with three decades at the university.
There was pushing and shoving as students clashed with police outside a parking garage on the MIT campus.
Pro-Palestinian protesters have tried to force the hands of universities by occupying campuses with tent cities. California Congressman Kevin Kiley wants to put an end to that.
The ongoing pro-Palestinian protests at American universities are more than just youthful expressions of speech freedom. Rather they exemplify the informed views of students repulsed by the genocide in Gaza, which they see every day on television and in the social media. They are motivated by a desire to end the continuing complicity of their More
One feature of the recent rash of campus demonstrations that has received only sporadic attention but needs more attention: A large and maybe preponderant proportion of those demonstrating are women.
Dozens of protesters locked arms and lay on the ground outside the venue draped in Palestine flags - and struggled with Swedish riot police who tried to remove them.
Helicopters have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of Broadway, many in riot gear. Police vans, some as big as a city bus, are lined up along side streets and Broadway. Outside the gates of the Columbia University campus, a penned-in group of pro-Israel demonstrators has faced off More
After hearing torturous accounts of traditional inburgering lessons, former Dutch teacher Bart Nawijn set out to do better. Now over 40,000 students have taken his online classes. “I really felt for the students and wanted to design the course I would want to take if I was taking the exams,” says Bart. “Something exam-focused, user-friendly, and without all the unnecessary stuff.” And so his online, guided self-study course was born, taking his former students’ realities into account. “People...
Nicolas Niarchos Why are the City College protesters being charged with felonies that could land them up to nine years in jail—while Columbia students are facing much lighter sentences?