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Tuesday, April 23. 2024

Dear President Shafik


Here's Columbia University President's letter. It's embarassingly limp and mealy-mouthed.


I have two degrees from that excellent university, so I care. Here's what I would have written, were I in her shoes:


Dear Members of the Columbia Community,


As of today anyone who disrupts our educational mission will be arrested by the NYPD, and expelled. Students and and parents have spent a lot of time and money to receive what we have to offer, and it is our job to provide that.


If anyone decides that disruptive protesting is more important than learning in our excellent institution, they should do it elsewhere.


Sincerely,


Columbia University President Bird Dog




Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 19:35 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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Hear! Hear!

They should have been doing that in the late 60s as well.
#1 feeblemind on 2024-04-23 21:11 (Reply)
She wants media coverage of the protests to end, but not the protests.
#2 Not Sure on 2024-04-23 23:18 (Reply)
Where is the petition to have you appointed president of the school? I want to sign it.
#3 Dangerous Dean on 2024-04-23 23:56 (Reply)
Clear, concise, and grounded in the mission of the university. So, of course, ain't gonna happen. Or, as OrangeManBad would say, "Sad."
#4 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2024-04-24 06:34 (Reply)
What’s a “Minouche Shafik” anyway?
#5 Alex on 2024-04-24 08:05 (Reply)
I very much doubt the people running these universities are self-reflective enough to understand that they are reaping the harvest of the seeds they've sewn.

Of course if and when the left gets the power they want they'll be some of first people marched up the steps of the guillotine.

It's like they stopped paying attention in history class starting at about grade 6.
#6 SK on 2024-04-24 08:45 (Reply)
What, and give up all that Middle Eastern moolah?
#7 RebeccaH on 2024-04-24 11:54 (Reply)
Probably not a popular opinion here, but I hope these protests continue to escalate throughout the Ivy League and similar colleges. The more damage it does to these places, the better.
#8 Pod Hamp on 2024-04-24 20:52 (Reply)
How do we get Bird Dogs in every institutes of “higher learning?”

While I sympathize with Pod Hamp’s position but I rather that the Ivy League universities be reformed rather than burned down and then (presumably) rebuilt.
#9 mudbug on 2024-04-25 10:37 (Reply)

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