Posted on 04/29/2024 1:57:57 PM PDT by lightman
Columbia University failed to bring disruptive anti-Israel protests under control Monday, as hundreds of protesters openly defied the school’s 2 p.m. ultimatum to vacate the campus encampment or face suspension and loss of access to dorms and class buildings.
“We will not back down,” student leaders proclaimed in a statement before the deadline expired.
As the deadline ticked away, hundreds of protesters remained on campus, beating drums and chanting slogans like “free, free, free Palestine” as they marched, beat drums and lounged around the tent city.
Police sources told The Post Monday afternoon that busloads of NYPD officers were standing by if summoned by the university. However, administrators had not asked cops to move in to remove students from the $90,000-per-year campus as it did April 18, during which 108 demonstrators were dragged away in cuffs.
Cops are not allowed on campus without authorization from the university.
In a statement to the student body Monday morning, embattled Columbia president Minouche Shafik made a final plea with student protesters to “voluntarily disperse” from campus, vowing to consider exploring “alternative internal options” to bring the crisis to a close.
[President]Shafik made clear that the protesters’ main demand — that the university divest from all companies that do business with Israel — was off the table.
The school also distributed notices around campus promising students amnesty from punishment if they turn themselves in to officials by the deadline and commit to obeying university policies...
According to the Columbia Spectator newspaper, students slapped with an interim suspension for flouting the deadline will be restricted from using all of Columbia’s “campuses, facilities and property, including all academic, residential and recreational spaces.” Students gather for a rally in support of a protest encampment on campus in support of Palestinians, despite a 2pm deadline.
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just move in and begin handcuffing...Have vans/trucks waiting and start loading them...If they resist, take them down start loading....No reason to talk or shout...just do it....Have city worker follow behind clean fully...Leave nothing behind...
Treat them as you democrats treated the J6 crowd...
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago
I hope that some people will do something on Election Day, like walk away from the Democrat party over this move from the radical left to the extremist left.
-PJ
Columbia lost the battle and the war.
Just like the border… doing nothing emboldens further bad behavior.
Perhaps people might finally be fed up with their nonsense.
They'll have to fire the President. Alumni and donors will pressure the University to do that.
Clemenza was right:
“You know, you gotta stop them at the beginning. Like they should have stopped Hitler at Munich, they should have never let him get away with that, they was just askin for trouble”
The mafia would probably turn out higher quality graduates.
It would be a heck of a detour through the Vatican.
How about a number 7?
-PJ
Application of a little Kent State pre-treatment will make them significantly easier to move with less effort. But there’s not enough gender-appropriate anatomy in Columbia’s admin ranks for that to ever happen.
Weak people creating hard times......
UT police outnumbered. Getting pushed back or retreating on purpose.
Soften up the target with drag queen readings kate into the evening, then conduct reveille with a purple dye application.
Where is the National Guard?
No deterrent, get out the dogs and water cannons, yeah right
Throw in a bar of soap, watch them scatter..
Yep.
Ain’t it grand we taxpayers will pay off their student loans?
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