I mean I'd still put it down on my resume. Ask away! He should be extremely proud of his bravery and I hope he'll be rewarded for that in his professional endeavors. How small of NYU to act this way, like a petulant child
Apparently, if you're NYU, you do it by attempting to steal years of tuition payments and hard work by nullifying someone's successful completion of your program.
That's how they punish the "person" giving the speech. It said they punished the speech. Or maybe they need to punish incompetent editors/writers who are too lazy to edit their work.
Nadie en el mundo puede quitar un diploma por lo aprendido. Eso se lleva en el alma y el diploma no es un papel para colgar en una pared para orgullo de los padres, es un bagaje que jamás nos deja y que todos los días nutrimos con nuevos sentimientos y conocimientos, adelante muchachos .
The administration can put topics off limits in speeches by students and if you talk about that topic you have violated some ethics code and viola…no diploma.
Yeah I don’t see that anywhere on the student handbook. That’s some bullshit. If I paid for a degree and earned a degree, school better give me my MFing degree!
I've got a rising junior who's tiptop academically so we're going to be looking at some pretty prestigious places, and I'm crossing them off the list now.
This degrades the value of EVERYONE'S degree from NYU. Lawyers bend over backward to sue institutions like this. You think they went through decades of education to learn how to be schmazi functionaries?
Biden and Kamala deserve their share of the blame for this bullshit happening at universities. The whole "antisemitism crisis" that was largely made up by openly genocidal people like Eyal Jakoby and his ilk was under their watch, and they encouraged university campuses to crack down on free speech
It has gotten worse under Trump, yes. But I think it's important to remember that the DNC centrists walked so trump could run in this regard. See also the complicit morons running NYU
I agree. It made me ill when Kamala said she unapologetically supports Israel. Basically they could erase Palestine from the map and she’d still be pro Israel.
If it’s not safe to support one’s cause verbally, please try to do so, financially. Even $10 is a fortune, when you’re counting (rationing) lentils, to live.
I would like to hear this speech. Especially at the price paid for it. And I would like to thank him, too, for his honesty and courage, and the example he is setting.
Well, to be fair, NYU probably wouldn’t give any of that crowd diplomas, nor even invite them to come express such personal and one-sided views on campus.
He got the education and now the prestige of being a hero. Fuck the piece of paper, put that shit on your resume anyway and dare anyway to question you
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https://newrepublic.com/post/195313/nyu-punishes-student-graduation-speech-gaza-palestine-diploma
truth hurts. truth is rarely told.
NYU can suck it.
they should be immensely proud of the education this young man
received and gave to his peers and mentors
He paid for it, didn't he?
Does he get a refund? Can he at least SUE for a refund?
(Is 😐 good for sarcasm? I hope so.)
The credential was earned, even if the part taught about “free speech “ was only - so much pretty noise.
Fuck off NYU.
NYU has failed him.
the VALEDICTORIAN
who is a STUDENT OF COLOR
I'd give a lot to know who leaned on the Administration
And anyone following @columbiauniversity.bsky.social knows how well THAT went