"Columbia University's students have a proud history of protest and raising their voices," Mayor Eric Adams said during a news conference Thursday evening. "Students have a right to free speech, but do not have a right to violate university policies and disrupt learning on campus."

HTF can you have a protest if you can't gather together on a lawn?  The only policy they volated as far as I can tell was setting up the tents.  At least when I went there, you were allowed to go sit on the lawn between classes to study, smoke dope and pick up girls.  8)

How does holding signs up disrupt learning?  That happens in classrooms inside the buildings, and unless they had a huge amplifier and loudspeaker system you couldn't have heard them even from the closest 2 buildings with classrooms,  Most of the buildings on that side f the campus are dorms.

Far as administration at Columbia capitulating to da Goobermint, that's nothing new.  They did in '68 also, and the cops went in with tear gas.  This was pretty tame by comparison.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/new-york-playbook/2024/04/19/columbia-university-in-crisis-00153273

Columbia University in crisis

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