The cowardice here is unbelievable!!! Why do they have all these resources if they refuse to fight? They could sue, and they would probably win! But no! They capitulate like cowards!
Don't they know that he will not stop? And now he will go on to bully even more universities. And who will suffer the most? Not the presidents or deans I can tell you that much. No it'll be the students, and young researchers who will suffer
It will be a whole generation of young researchers who will be forced to give up their dreams and years of hard work because the people who were supposed to protect them and lead them chose to throw them under the bus
Since money is king,
And King Money is president:
Most will grovel, flail, beg, prostrate themselves:
'Ok, ok. I'll do anything.
Just don't fuck with our money.'
Has any US leader used baldfaced bribery so pervasively before?
Have to say, if I were a student, I’d be working on transferring anywhere else. Disgusting lack of everything closely related to morality. This school deserves to collapse on itself and become Trump university II.
This is how you lose all academic credibility, not to mention becoming a collaborator, and I'm pretty sure we know what happens historically speaking to collaborators.
We go to the Greenmarket up there every Thurs. They surrendered long ago, w/every gate locked & security required to enter keeping out even food historians who want to use the library. A fortress. When we went to Harvard in December, by contrast, we were able to walk onto and around campus freely.
One of the absolutely great benefits of my time at UVa and in Charlottesville was the constant availability of Thomas Jefferson's Central Grounds and the Lawn. It worked exactly the way it was planned. It was part of life for the whole public.
we have to get past the whole "they can't do that" reaction, even if it's rhetorical. they can because for fascists, might makes right, and they control all the guns and all the prisons.
I responded to a fundraising email telling them to take me off all fundraising lists and included the link to the article.
Now discovering that unsubscribing from their emails is a huge PITA, the unsubscribe link in an email apparently only lets you unsubscribe from that particular Columbia sender.
TBH I get the feeling the Columbia admin was more than ready and willing to comply. It actually wouldn't surprise me to learn they helped draft the conditions in order to get rid of troublesome students who don't pay full tuition in cash.
Their reputation will never recover… What a colossal mistake. They have given up on democracy too quick, and too easily. I know it’s hard right now, but we are in this together and need to fight it together. Not comply.
They haven't but they need to be. Any students & staff with a conscience should actually shut them down. It's better to have no university than one that's fascist. Better to have no higher education than being inundated with right-wing propaganda. Better to send a clear message to other institutions
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And King Money is president:
Most will grovel, flail, beg, prostrate themselves:
'Ok, ok. I'll do anything.
Just don't fuck with our money.'
Has any US leader used baldfaced bribery so pervasively before?
Trump's dark mental illness must be checked.
It's contagious.
Student riots have led movements fyi
- Standing together for Columbia, Katrina Armstrong"
Should ANYONE go to a school run by liars like this?
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lkw4l2curk2v
so yeah, they're banning masks
Now discovering that unsubscribing from their emails is a huge PITA, the unsubscribe link in an email apparently only lets you unsubscribe from that particular Columbia sender.
Hopefully the existence of the internet will make it so they actually get recognized and remembered for what they have always been.
Figures.