Well I'm mighty upset about that.
Posted on 03/30/2025 10:48:34 PM PDT by Libloather
A group of Columbia University grads tore up their diplomas on campus over the weekend to protest the school’s cooperation with the Trump administration, and the feds’ detention of former student and anti-Israel demonstration leader Mahmoud Khalil.
The rally, which took place during the Ivy League university’s annual Alumni Day celebration Saturday, included students as well as a few dozen graduates of Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs — with the crowd chanting, “Free Palestine!”
“It’s not easy to do this, with none of us doing this lightly. There’s no joy in this,” said Amali Tower, a 2009 SIPA graduate who spoke at the protest and ripped up her diploma, to NBC News.
“I’m not a proud alumni at all, and instead I want to stand with the students, and I want to stand with Palestinians, and I want to stand with immigrants who are being rounded up and harassed, oppressed and deported as we speak,” said Tower, who is herself an immigrant.
The demonstration comes amid prolonged turmoil at Columbia, which just saw its board of trustees push interim university President Katrina Armstrong from her post last week during a battle with the Trump administration.
The White House has demanded that the school institute a total ban on face coverings worn by campus protesters or risk losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid.
While the university acquiesced to a list of demands put forth by the administration’s new Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism last week — under threat of losing the $400 million in funding — Armstrong had privately downplayed the policy changes to faculty.
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I got some joy out of it.
Haha. That should help!!! Haha
And they can replace the diploma for probably $50 to $100 dollars. The student records office will mail them a new one.
Go join your terrorist friends in Gaza.
Yep, I found it somewhat entertaining. Stupid people can be funny.
Well I'm mighty upset about that.
It's like USAID.
The entire institution is a 'ball of worms'. It cannot be redeemed.
Poor babies!
“I’m not a proud alumni at all”
Unless she identifies as “they,” uses the royal “we,” or has multiple personality disorder, she’s an ALUMNA.
Like John Kerry and ‘his medals’...
But I bet all these silly punks still proudly put their degree from Columbia on their resumes.
Like John Kerry and ‘his medals’...
But I bet all these silly punks still proudly put their degree from Columbia on their resumes.
Little b...es are gonna put Columbia on their resumes though.
THAT would takes some bit of guts..to act as if you never went there.
Go on high stakes interviews and your resume shows no college.
Ripping up a diploma...so what?
Well I’ll beeee! All that money,all that education, and they couldn’t pour piss out of a boot with the directions printed on the heel. I truly hope their parents are broke and proud. 🤣
Idiot! "Alumni" is the masculine plural.
Regards,
Regards,
And they can replace the diploma for probably $50 to $100 dollars. The student records office will mail them a new one
A John Kerry trick
Shut up and pay your student loans Ms. Tower.
See, maybe that’s why she’s not proud of her education... because her Latin sucks.
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