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The massive Columbia University protests followed by a police riot helped radicalize a generation of students and inspired a book and movie called The Strawberry Statement. The University later sided with the student protesters and put in place guidelines to prevent another police riot. However...
06:34 PM - Apr 22, 2024
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This past Thursday, the CU President once again called in the NYPD to quash nonviolent student protests. History repeats itself. In response, the Columbia and Barnard College chapters of the American Association of University Professors issued a statement...
06:34 PM - Apr 22, 2024
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"The American Association of University Professors has defined two central pillars of higher education in America: academic freedom and shared governance…In the last three days, Columbia University President Shafik and her administration have seriously violated both...
06:34 PM - Apr 22, 2024
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"We are shocked at her failure to mount any defense of the free inquiry central to the educational mission of a university in a democratic society and at her willingness to appease legislators seeking to interfere in university affairs...
06:34 PM - Apr 22, 2024
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"She has demonstrated flagrant disregard of shared governance in her acceptance of partisan charges that anti-war demonstrators are violent and antisemitic and in her unilateral and wildly disproportionate punishment of peacefully protesting students."
06:34 PM - Apr 22, 2024
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