Next week, Columbia University, which has banned reporters from its campus, is scheduled to announce this year’s winners of one of the most prestigious prizes in journalism.

I feel like I'm losing my mind a little: people understand that 'occupying buildings on campus' is, like, one of the most common forms of studen protest for decades and not some devious new ploy devised by professional anarchist plotters, right?

I've covered campus activism since the late 90s. Nothing that's happening on campuses now -- sit ins, building takeovers, encampments -- is at all outside the standard vernacular of student protest.

What's unusual is administrators calling in riot cops on their own students

my full q&a with zendaya from this week’s Variety cover below!

I’m supposed to wipe out my family’s savings, scrimp and save and spend every dime on her schooling, and send it to these schools that will put her in harm’s way for peacefully standing up for our values? For sitting on a freaking lawn with other like-minded friends?!?

you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

I've seen no credible reporting of actual antisemitic incidents at the UT Austin protest. What I can tell you is that I've reported on numerous neo-Nazi events and Greg Abbott never once tried to put any of them in jail.

how the fuck are you going to say that people cannot wear masks on campus

#Challengers director Luca Guadagnino: “It’s beautiful to kiss people! That’s what I want to say. People, kiss! Do not make war.” wp.me/pc8uak-1lE2uD

I feel like it would be more normal for colleges to have nothing to do with arms manufacturers.

So much handwringing about Gen Z and if social media has rotted their brains, meanwhile students across the country are putting their academic careers on the line for Gaza are demonstrating more moral clarity on this issue than most of the our elected leaders. The kids are fine.

STATEMENT FROM CONCERNED UT AUSTIN FACULTY. #NotOurTexas

I can’t remember a journalist ever being arrested for doing his job in my 24 years of reporting in Austin.

this is so removed from reality…. sure, prioritize “studying for finals” over your students’ first amendment right to protest. btw there are no finals to study for in gaza, where all 12 universities (and hundreds more grade schools) have been destroyed