Lee Bollinger Whitewashes Elite-University Decay

Lee Bollinger Whitewashes Elite-University Decay

On May 7, police arrested at least 44 Columbia University students and 13 Barnard College students - many were masked - for taking over the university library. "Once inside the agitators passed out pamphlets that endorsed Hamas's violence and chanted ‘There is only one solution, intifada revolution,' ‘We want divestment now,' and ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,' using megaphones and banging on drums," according to the Washing…

Once again, pro-Palestinian protestors at the University of Chicago violate campus rules but don’t get punished

If you’ve read about the various pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel protests across American campuses, one thing you’ll notice is a general reluctance to punish demonstrators when they violate university rules. Of course protests are usually fine if they conform to First Amendment principles (though some schools don’t hold those principles), but they’re never fine when they violate campus rules.  These latter rules are usually called “TPM rules”, m…