i would think the students would have a strong case for suing

Degrees are generally revoked for reasons such as:

Academic Misconduct: This includes fraud, misrepresentation, plagiarism, or falsification of data during the degree-earning process. For example, if a student cheated on exams, fabricated research, or lied on their application, the university could determine the degree was not legitimately earned.
Severe Violations Pre-Graduation: Serious breaches of university policy committed before graduation, even if discovered later, can lead to revocation. This might include ethical violations or criminal behavior tied to the academic process.
Administrative Authority: The power to revoke a degree typically rests with high-ranking officials, such as the Provost or a governing board (e.g., the University Senate or Trustees), following a formal investigation and review process. This ensures due process, including notifying the individual and allowing them to respond.

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student the f**king tuition and fees back. They bought and paid for that diploma. It is a tangible thing of value.

the free speech those students engaged in is disgusting. It’s support for authoritarianism. Columbia is doing this because of Trump’s revocation of millions of dollars in grants, something the anti-free speech proponents likely support. While they applaud the attack on higher education, they stand with the far right and its efforts to turn the USA into Russia or Nazi Germany. It’s incredibly short-sighted since the right’s ultimate goal is to see all Jews dead. If anyone believes Trump cares about antisemitism, they are woefully gullible. Neo-Nazis fill his base as well as close advisors like Miller and Musk. What Trump hates is Muslims, while he promotes the same ethnic cleansing as championed by Israel’s current government. Bibi, for example, voiced no opposition to Trump’s plan to remove all Palestinians from Gaza and turn it into a resort.

I wonder if those who applaud these actions wanted Vietnam protestors stripped of their degrees or deported as well, or perhaps their embrace of authoritarianism is limited to Muslims? Do they also support the shackling and deportation of Latinos and Canadians, the latter for a crime of an incomplete visa, the former for being undocumented or American citizens born to undocumented parents? The actions are all connected. This pretense of a concern about crime is a transparent ruse to abolish free speech.

Striking workers regularly engage in the kind of civil disobedience that these students did. The result is fines, not being stripped of their jobs or deported. Does no one learn any history? Haymarket was a crime, a rather serious one. It’s also part of the history of labor formation in this country. Anarchism and Socialism were crimes, but those movements gave us the 8 hr day.

Then there is the Civil Rights movement, where civil disobedience was common. They occupied buildings through sit ins. Would you have had them expelled, stripped of Degrees and deported as well? If the answer is no, the only explanation is hypocrisy of the worst kind, since it is aligned with authoritarianism.

While the right's of student's to protest against policies and for various causes is a paramount right to exercise upon campus when they go to the extreme of taking over buildings, At what point do they violate the right's of other student's who are not part of their protest of their right to attend a college free of disruption and harassment while they try to get their education in a non hostile, positive environment? While activism is encouraged on one hand such as peaceful protest the universities primarily function is as a place for higher learning, Not to provide a format for airing one's political views

and respond to the points I made. Perhaps you did read it and chose to ignore the historical parallels? I take it then, that you opposed the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam protests, and union movements? Or is your scorn reserved for Muslims alone? If so, you have proved my point.

BREAKING: Jewish Voice for Peace is leading a sit-in in the lobby of Trump tower to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil.

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