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Cornell bans radical student after university president was held hostage in car over Israel debate clash
NY Post ^ | 6/05/26 | Nicholas McEntyre

Posted on 06/05/2026 6:11:15 AM PDT by Libloather

A Cornell student activist who hounded the Ivy League school’s president, Michael Kotlikoff, in a parking lot following an Israel-Palestinian debate has been banned from campus.

Aiden Vallecillo is prohibited from attending any events at the Ithaca institution for one year after he was a part of a larger group of students who surrounded and filmed Kotlikoff, demanding to talk with the administrator as he walked to his car on April 30, according to WBNG.

Vallecillo, who graduated from the elite upstate university in May, was labeled a persona non grata by university police at his off-campus apartment on May 28, five days after graduating from the school.

“I think that they deliberately timed this to be at a point where students are off campus, where people are thinking about recent graduation, about post-grad plans and not about kind of how to support their fellow students,” Vallecillo claimed to the outlet. “They’ve done it at a time when national media attention has also died off.”

Vallecillo complained that his freedom of speech was being denied because Kotlikoff didn’t answer his questions about campus speech policies.

However, the university accused the group of harassing and intimidating Kotlikoff after the campus debate series hosted by the Cornell Political Union and co-sponsored by Cornell Progressives, Cornellians for Israel and Students for Justice in Palestine.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Education; Local News
KEYWORDS: ban; cornell; hostage; israel

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Eject the kooks. They teach this garbage at Cornell? That's a shame.
1 posted on 06/05/2026 6:11:15 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

It’s all fun and games until the Elites get targeted.


2 posted on 06/05/2026 6:13:43 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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"tough guy" Aiden Vallecillo

3 posted on 06/05/2026 6:14:47 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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Vallecillo complained that his freedom of speech was being denied because Kotlikoff didn’t answer his questions about campus speech policies.

So if I refuse to answer your questions, I am denying your freedom of speech?! Something backwards here. And as Vallecillo has already graduated how does this ban even effect him?

4 posted on 06/05/2026 6:15:46 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Ok In anyq war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.👨 so t tv)
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To: Libloather

No criminal prosecution?


5 posted on 06/05/2026 6:18:53 AM PDT by Salman (The Democrats have seceded from the human race. It's time for Trump to go full Pinochet.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

There goes your job prospects kid.


6 posted on 06/05/2026 6:26:16 AM PDT by dagunk
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To: Rummyfan

“Vallecillo complained that his freedom of speech was being denied because Kotlikoff didn’t answer his questions about campus speech policies”

Man, this opinion will certainly help the new breed of non-affiliated investigative reporters when they try to interview owners of Learing centers, investigate voter fraud and try to get answers from politicians. /s


7 posted on 06/05/2026 6:39:14 AM PDT by themidnightskulker
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> prohibited from attending any events at the Ithaca institution for one year <

Wow. A whole year!
/s

Did they put him on “Double Secret Probation” too?


8 posted on 06/05/2026 6:41:12 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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Ban? How about arrest and throw in jail? Only in the lunatic asylums that we call universities can someone hold someone else hostage and not be arrested.


9 posted on 06/05/2026 6:42:11 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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“I think that they deliberately timed

It appears to have been deliberately timed so that he suffered no real pain - they waited until after he completed his studies and graduated.

five days after graduating from the school.

So he can't stick around and cause trouble on campus as an outside agitator? Maybe he should think about getting a real job and adulting.

10 posted on 06/05/2026 6:45:08 AM PDT by PAR35
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“How about arrest and throw in jail?”

I’m surprised Cornell didn’t give him an honorary degree and let him speak at commencement.


11 posted on 06/05/2026 6:47:23 AM PDT by KingLudd
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

He isn’t going to look as cute missing all those teeth.
Another gay militant.


12 posted on 06/05/2026 6:47:47 AM PDT by Zathras
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Can Cornell revoke his diploma? That would be a good lesson for the brat. Another lesson would be to drop him off somewhere in the West Bank (or Gaza if anyone is left there) and let his blond, white a** deal with the locals himself that he supports so much.


13 posted on 06/05/2026 6:52:02 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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This spoiled brat should have his diploma revoked.


14 posted on 06/05/2026 7:15:51 AM PDT by PGR88
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On many college campuses, there’s a cohort of students who seldom if ever attend classes, major in useless politicized fields like “Gender Studies” or Fill-In-The-Blank Racial Minority Studies, and spend most of their time in college staging useless, noisy protests on behalf of the trendy cause of the day. Such people are a waste of space and should be replaced by students who actually...study something, as students are supposed to be doing.


15 posted on 06/05/2026 7:30:38 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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So the precious boy can’t go to parties for a year?

Harsh.


16 posted on 06/05/2026 7:33:06 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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Yes they do. My son went there. Guess which side he’s on.


17 posted on 06/05/2026 7:34:42 AM PDT by sauropod
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Yeah ..wow...bfd....penalty for the ages... that’ll curb his enthusiasm...


18 posted on 06/05/2026 8:04:39 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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Given Cornell’s history of mollycoddling their agitators> I am
surprised that the administration didn’t offer Aidan a job in
the mid-6 figures, an office and a car.

This was the response to the leader of the Black students
taking over the Student Union in 1969.

Cornell ‘74


19 posted on 06/05/2026 8:51:39 AM PDT by T. Rustin Noone
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To: Libloather
...the elite upstate university...
20 posted on 06/05/2026 9:02:02 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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