Posted on 05/06/2026 8:01:41 AM PDT by dennisw
He also allegedly ran over Vallecillo's right foot, and drove away without saying anything to the student activists while Vallecillo yelled: 'You just rolled over my f***ing foot, oh my God.'
The president of an Ivy League university has been accused of backing his car into a student and running over a second student's foot following an on-campus debate.
The students involved in the debacle had attended a debate between supporters of Israel and backers of the Palestinian cause at Cornell University on Thursday night.
After the event, the two followed University President Michael Kotlikoff to his car and grilled him about free speech on campus, the Cornell Sun reports.
Aiden Vallecillo, a member of Students for a Democratic Cornell, explained that he and three other members of the student-run group had not expected Kotlikoff to attend the debate.
The event featured author and political scientist Norman Finkelstein. Kotlikoff gave an opening statement.
'We decided to converse with Kotlikoff after Finkelstein - as well as a number of student debaters and Kotlikoff, himself - encouraged the proliferation of free speech on campus,' Vallecillo recounted.
He said they were objecting to the university's suspension of student demonstrators and measures they said stifle free speech on campus.
But in an email to students on Friday, the university president alleged that students and non-students 'loudly shouted' questions at him and refused to stop recording.
The students refute that claim.
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Ugggh- sorry to hear that- a pox on liberal colleges! we have a liberal cousin- there is NO talking any common sense to her- They really are delusional
On the up side, aside for 2A, he’s totally on the Trump Train and is vocal about it.
President at Ivy League didn’t take footsie training.
The students swarmed the UC president’s vehicle and refused to allow him to leave.
I’d be arresting the students who impeded the man by blocking him.
That’s good news- not totally indoctrinated then-
University President Michael Kotlikoff was driving a black Cadillac SUV Escalade. It seems no chauffer.
Thanks! I thought it looked a bit like a Bentley initially.
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