Posted on 07/02/2024 9:14:46 AM PDT by george76
The Washington Free Beacon’s guide to occupying a Columbia campus building..
Eloise Maybank is accustomed to luxury. A London native, Maybank attended high school at a private French academy in London, the renowned Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle de Londres, and then at Milton Academy, an elite Massachusetts boarding school where tuition runs $76,000 a year. Then she enrolled at Columbia.
Maybank was among approximately 100 people arrested at Columbia University in late April for storming and occupying a campus building. Of those arrested, 45 were charged with third-degree criminal trespassing, public records show. At a hearing last month, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office dismissed cases against 31 of those people. Prosecutors told the 14 others that charges against them would be dropped if they avoided arrest for the next six months, but the defendants rejected that offer and will return to court in late July.
A Washington Free Beacon review of those charged shows they included several Columbia University, Barnard College, and New York University students and recent graduates, a City University of New York professor, and a wealthy outside activist also facing charges for setting an Israel supporter’s flag aflame during the April protest.
Maybank is not the only student arrested in April who comes from wealth and privilege.
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Also arrested were Julia Jackson, an alumna of New York University and New Hampshire’s Phillips Exeter Academy—tuition $70,000 a year—as well as Barnard College graduate Madelyn McGuigan, the daughter of finance executive Chris McGuigan, the owner of a picturesque home valued at $2.2 million in the beachside town of Rumson, New Jersey, the Free Beacon found. Both McGuigan and Jackson will return to court in late July after rejecting the deal offered by prosecutors.
Then there is Columbia graduate student and self-described "medievalist" Grant Miner, the son of veteran California lobbyist and former Arnold Schwarzenegger aide Paul Miner, the owner of a $1.8 million Sacramento home, real estate records show. In October, just two days after Hamas's terror attack on the Jewish state, Grant Miner was photographed at a New York City rally holding a sign that read, "Resistance against occupation is a human right."
Others came from less privileged backgrounds and attended Columbia thanks to the generosity of others. That was the case for Sebastian Jimenez, who graduated from Columbia in May. He was the recipient of a scholarship underwritten by Columbia alumni that paid his tuition. Jimenez, who was booted from campus after his April 30 arrest, also sued Columbia to regain access to his campus dorm.
CUNY professor Elizabeth Reade is also among those who still face charges. The Department of Education said last month that CUNY was one of two schools that had failed to protect Jewish students, and the school has spent the past several years grappling with campus anti-Semitism. The school drew criticism after putting its chief diversity officer, Saly Abd Alla, a former director of a regional branch of the Council on American Islamic Relations, in charge of a series of "diversity dialogues."
Reade is represented in the case by Victoria Marie Ruiz, a former New York public defender who resigned from the job in November 2023 after she was filmed tearing down posters of Israeli hostages in New York City. Ruiz went on to raise tens of thousands of dollars through a GoFundMe she launched to "help out with legal fees" and "living costs between jobs."
"Our incredible friend is under attack," a member of Ruiz's punk rock band wrote on the fundraising page.
One of the leaders behind the Hamilton Hall occupation, the 40-year-old professional agitator James Carlson, is the son of prominent advertising executives Richard Tarlow and Sandy Carlson Tarlow, the New York Post reported last month. In 2019, he bought a three-story townhouse in Brooklyn's Park Slope for $2.3 million. Carlson is also facing criminal mischief and arson charges after he was caught on video setting an Israeli flag on fire outside of Columbia's campus. During the ordeal, another activist hit a pro-Israel demonstrator in the face with a rock.
Others arrested include Columbia graduate student and fellow protest leader Aidan Parisi, the son of longtime State Department official Elizabeth Daugharty. Columbia suspended Parisi over his involvement in a pro-terror "Palestinian Resistance 101" event held on campus in March, barring him from campus. But Parisi refused to leave his university apartment, saying that doing so would require him to find "housing that would accept his emotional support rabbit," and later emerged as a constant presence in the encampment that plagued campus for weeks. Police arrested Parisi during their April 30 campus sweep.
Of the 46 protesters arrested over the occupation of Hamilton Hall, 3 have ties to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), the Free Beacon found.
Catherine Curran-Groome, a University of Vermont graduate, interned for Sanders as a student before joining People's Action, a left-wing advocacy group working to "curb climate change and end our dependence on fossil fuels." University of Virginia graduate Raiya Al-Nsour also interned for Sanders in 2019 before working as a legislative project specialist for the United Postal Workers Union.
Jackson, the NYU and Phillips Exeter graduate, volunteered for Sanders's presidential campaign as a canvasser from Oct. 2019 to April 2020, according to her LinkedIn profile. Before that, she interned in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office under George Soros-backed prosecutor Larry Krasner, who called the Columbia arrests "stupid."
Jackson, McGuigan, Miner, and Al-Nsour did not respond to requests for comment. Parisi declined to comment. Maybank, Carlson, and Curran-Groome could not be reached.
Other Columbia arrestees have similar backgrounds in left-wing advocacy.
Columbia graduate student Marianne Almero, for example, interned at the Urban Indigenous Collective, where she engaged in "social justice advocacy to decolonize education institutions, climate justice, incarceration and police systems, and health accessibility." Rose Bottorf, an undergraduate philosophy student with the pronouns "they/she/he," taught "critical race theory and activism to children ages 14-17" as an intern at City Mission Boston, a since-shuttered nonprofit that worked to "expose systemic barriers" and "use storytelling as a healing tool for social change."
In one case, an arrestee participated in the Hamilton Hall occupation roughly one year after Columbia honored her for her political activism. That arrestee, Andrea Salamanca, graduated from Columbia in 2023, when the university awarded her a Multicultural Graduation Cord, given to graduating students "who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to diversity, social justice, and multiculturalism."
Columbia 2024 graduate and fellow arrestee Franziska Lee, an organizer with the Columbia Revolutionary Marxist Students Organization, said she chose to minor in race and ethnicity studies because "everyone was on board with, like, leftism and critical race theory."
"Columbia has all these core required classes, so you end up with people from all different majors, which is cool in one sense," Lee said last year.
"But if you're trying to have a discussion about history or something, and people are like, 'Well, I don't think colonization is bad,' or something like that … It's like you can't get far with that," she continued. "So I like the Ethnic Studies department, because everybody is to an extent on board."
Meet the Trust Funded Rich Kids, Professors, and Activists
Their BFF Fakestinian terrorist murder gangsters would kill each and every one of these “over-privileged infidels” .. (after torturing them very, very painfully)
wisdom has it to select one’s friends far more carefully than that!
I went to an “elite” university, several decades ago. I’m from the midwest and Dad worked in a steel plant, graduated high school, and a week later was in the Navy on his way to the Philippines and Okinawa. He never got the chance to return to school
We afforded my university through a lot of financial aid, scholarships, my work savings, and Mom and Dad’s help.
When reading about these entitled brats, I can only think how Dad would have beat my ass to a bloody pulp if he found out I got arrested or was anywhere near such a (neo) marxist protest.
Every one of them a FR’KN Disgrace to America!! ..imho
Mostly white wemmyn. The bane of Western civilization.
Elephant in the room: Secular, Reform Movement, ‘Conservative’ Movement, and Yeshiva University ‘Modern’ Orthodox Jews lead the way. Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik’s soul is suffering.
What is truly frightening is that these are the children of the true leaders and shakers of the government and economy. They’re the ones being groomed and set up to take the reins, just has their families have done for several generations.
These people are an existential menace.
In the old Soviet Union, these families were the nomenklatura, the elite Communist managerial class. The former USA is now the USSR Version 2.0.
Columbia university is a terrorist training camp and should be treated as such.
I disagree - this dynastic tribalism has always been at the root of the elite. It’s how the world functions, and how it has always functioned. The communists were just following the age-old pattern.
“students “who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to diversity, social justice, and multiculturalism.”
aka anti-white hate....
I went to an “elite” university as well.
On my very first day I had a wild experience.
I was moving stuff into my dorm room and I saw a guy across the hall who was moving his stuff in as well.
I walked up to him, looked him in the eye, shook his hand and said “My name is....”
He looked at me with a Charles Manson stare and said “I am a Marxist”.
Notably missing are foreign students. So much for the deport them comments, with which I agree, that often appear on these threads.
At least the ones WFB comments on, they appear to be homegrown violent leftists. Many of with current or former government or University connections through employment or families. Several connected to prominent politicians, others lower level, like prosecutors. All of them beneficiaries of the best of what the nation they wish to destroy provides. Including the "low income" beneficiaries who attended Columbia. Something neither my children or grandchildren could afford to do.
Shame, shame!
Lord save Columbia University and NYU! Amen!
I’m surprised any of these over educated idiots can even dress themselves and tie their shoes. An emotional support rabbit?!
If she burned an Israeli flag, did she use two rocks to start a fire - or did she use a magnifying glass to start the fire. Did she check to see how much carbon was released into the air? 🤓
One thing I did see about those people - the last names were different than the parents. WTF?
I went to a university that wasn’t an elite. It was still liberal, but not as bad as Columbia. My PoliSci teacher and I never agreed on politics. She hated Republicans, I hated Carter...she failed me.
Ditto that!
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