From here on out, whatever happens at Columbia University can be blamed directly on school administrators.
On Saturday, school administrators said that they would not call in the New York Police Department to clear the tent city created by pro-Palstinian protesters.
The protesters negotiating with the administration demanded that they receive guarantees that the cops won't be called in again. The school agreed.
There's no word on what Jewish students and professors think of this surrender. No doubt they'll be told to avoid the area and try to not "enflame" the situation by provocatively existing.
“We called on the NYPD to clear an encampment once, but we all share the view, based on discussions within our community and with outside experts, that to bring back the NYPD at this time would be counterproductive, further inflaming what is happening on campus, and drawing thousands to our doorstep who would threaten our community,” the school said in a statement.
Which "experts" are they talking about? An "expert" in student protests probably has great sympathy for the kids, making any advice they give horse manure.
The students who organized the protest have been in negotiations with the administration for a week. If the idiot administrators don't know by now that the kids are manipulating them for their own purposes, they're dumber than most far-left twits are.
“Chants, signs, taunts, and social media posts from our own students that mock and threaten to ‘kill’ Jewish people are totally unacceptable, and Columbia students who are involved in such incidents will be held accountable,” Columbia said.
Khymani James, the antisemite leader of the tent encampment who said that "Zionists don't deserve to live," was either expelled or suspended. We don't know for sure.
What's a virtual certainty is that James will be allowed back on campus. He "apologized," don't you see, and has promised to sin no more. That should be good enough for the Columbia brass.
How is the school going to enforce its "no antisemitic chants or taunts" rule without police? Good luck with that.
“Calls of violence and statements targeted at individuals based on their religious, ethnic or national identity are unacceptable and violate university policy,” spokesman Ben Chang said Friday. “When there are violations of student conduct policies, they are reviewed and disciplinary measures are applied.”
The kids whose parents are forking over $67,000 a year in tuition are not going to sit still for their college record being marked up with a suspension or worse. So Columbia students like Maryam Alwan, who was arrested April 18, are now looking for "amnesty" from the school for their illegal activities.
The students' plight has become a central part of protests, with students and a growing number of faculty demanding their amnesty. At issue is whether universities and law enforcement will clear the charges and withhold other consequences, or whether the suspensions and legal records will follow students into their adult lives.
Terms of the suspensions vary from campus to campus. At Columbia and its affiliated Barnard College for women, Alwan and dozens more were arrested April 18 and promptly barred from campus and classes, unable to attend in-person or virtually, and banned from dining halls.
Questions about their academic futures remain. Will they be allowed to take final exams? What about financial aid? Graduation? Columbia says outcomes will be decided at disciplinary hearings, but Alwan says she has not been given a date.
“This feels very dystopian,” said Alwan, a comparative literature and society major.
Alwan needn't worry. These kids have been coddled since they got to Columbia and most are already being allowed back on campus. They will get their amnesty because there are no consequences for illegal, nauseating behavior like threatening the lives of Jews.
