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Columbia president booed at graduation ceremony
« on: May 22, 2025, 05:51:58 am »
 
 Columbia president booed at graduation ceremony
Story by Scripps News Group • 18h

Claire Shipman, the acting president of Columbia University, was met with boos and chants of “Free Mahmoud” as she prepared to speak at the university’s graduation ceremony on Tuesday.

“I know you feel some amount of frustration with me, and I know you feel it with the administration,” she told the graduates.
 
“I know that we have a strong, strong tradition of free speech at this university. And I am always open to feedback.”

Columbia has been at the center of the nationwide pro-Palestinian protest movement on college campuses. The Trump administration recently pulled $400 million in research grants and other federal funding over the university’s handling of the protests.

To reinstate the suspended funding, the government outlined mandatory changes to Columbia’s academic and campus security policies.

The university stated it intended to move forward with some of the recommended reforms.

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Re: Columbia president booed at graduation ceremony
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2025, 05:55:20 am »
If I started a protest calling for the killing of all black members of congress, how long do you think I would be free to walk the street?  And would that "free speech", by Columbia standards, be allowed on campus again and again? *****rollingeyes*****
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address
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