We have fantasized about administrators who ask for such 'educational' outcomes for their disciplinary processes to write essays themselves, without the help of ai or consultants, and have students grade them.

Oh great, now I have encampment envy.
(Jk love our CU community to bits)

The way everyone in NYC is POUTING rn. Maybe in DC too. I'm about to lie down on the floor, throw my arms in the air, and wail 'It isn't FAIR!!'
(Still gonna hot like on Eve eh single pretty aurora photo).

So much of this. Some of us remember the wave of Title IX suits against universities and even wrote about it. Even people found guilty by their own internal procedures, a ridiculously high bar, multiple times, were never expelled.

This hits extra hard because the purple cap and gown is very familiar.

'To liberate the building was to tear down the artificial border between “student” and “non-student” imposed by the classist, racist sorting mechanism which determines who deserves a place within the ivory tower and who remains locked outside its gates.'

thenewinquiry.com/from-harlem-to…

The math is not mathing as the youths say.

It can be done.

HIND’S HALL. Once it’s up on streaming all proceeds to UNRWA.

Everybody deserves respect. I'm going to keep saying this as loud as I can.

Don't listen to novelists, listen to educators.

'it is faculty and staff who must provide food, shelter, jail support, advocacy, and aid in de-escalation, mediation, negotiation, and more to students who are punished with ruthless severity.'

columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/0…

My husband, Prof. Steve Tamari, is out of the hospital. He will need surgery on his hand, and he is in pain from nine broken ribs. We are asking for time to rest and heal. We will not be taking media interviews at this time. Here is Steve's statement and ways you can support.

Mahmoud Darwish with the inaugural Lotus Prize in Poetry (1970), at New Delhi's GV Mavalankar Hall. 16 November 1970.

7 layers of barricades, an emptied and locked down campus, to protect Columbia University *from* its own students and faculty.

The real time transfer of tactics and solidarity.

the crazy thing is the encampment took place in a designated protest zone

Oooo I wanna play. Whatever was going on with Masoom -
'Huzoor is kadar bhi na itra ke chaliye'
Or
'Tujhse naraaz nahi zindagi, hairan hoon mein'

'She conformed' is the tell. These journos almost universally have a contempt for the intellect of young adults and refuse to believe they can think for themselves and consistently see themselves as part of a collectivity.