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vanessa_ca

(565 posts)
1. This is seriously chilling.
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 10:53 PM
Aug 7

Here's his excellent letter:

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump

- long snip

Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an anti-university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on high what they can teach and say, under penalty of severe sanctions. Disgracefully, all of this is being done to cover up one of the greatest crimes of this century, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a crime in which Columbia’s leadership is now fully complicit.


Columbia as an institution has fallen and is just a punchline now. My brother did his doctoral studies there and is beyond livid.
Any school that willingly capitulated like that to the schoolyard bully is not worth applying to anymore.

I fear for us.

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