Columbia University Tag

Columbia University Makes Changes to Comply With Trump’s Demands

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 22, 2025 9 Comments

"Sources familiar with the negotiations told Fox News that meeting the demands doesn't mean that Columbia will get their $400 million in funding back, but that it's just a precondition to opening talks."...

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Influencer Finds Shocking Levels of Antisemitism on Campus at Barnard College

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 19, 2025 2 Comments

"I think ‘terrorism’ is one of those words where people haven’t actually thought about the meaning"...

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Investigation Launched Over Columbia U. Janitors Who Were Trapped in Occupied Building During Protest

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 18, 2025 6 Comments

"were both left injured as well as traumatized from the scourge of anti-Israel unrest that engulfed the Ivy League school and have since been unable to return to work as a result"...

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Faculty Civil War May Erupt As STEM Lose Grants Due To Radical Humanities Profs. Stoking Campus Mayhem

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 15, 2025 48 Comments

My appearance on Fox News Radio Evening Edit: "you have faculty in the hard sciences who are not as political, who are now paying the price for their gender studies and anthropology and political science faculty who have aided and abetted these protests, who have...

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ICE Arrests Second Anti-Israel Activist at Columbia University for Visa Violation

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 15, 2025 14 Comments

"Leqaa Kordia, who is from the West Bank, had a student visa canceled in 2022 'for lack of attendance' and was detained by the agency for the outdated visa."...

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Columbia Student ‘Involved in Activities Supporting Hamas’ Self-Deports

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 14, 2025 21 Comments

Ranjani Srinivasan, a national from India, used the CBP Home App to self-deport herself to Canada....

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Trump Admin Sends Letter to Columbia University Demanding Major Changes

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 14, 2025 21 Comments

"demanded that Columbia University make dramatic changes in student discipline and admissions before it would discuss lifting the cancellation of $400 million in government grants and contracts"...

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Columbia Under Pressure to Enact Mask Ban Amid Anti-Israel Protests

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 12, 2025 3 Comments

“The use of face masking has emboldened violence by anti-Israel and anti-American activists.”...

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Mahmoud Khalil – Not a Free Speech Issue

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 11, 2025 103 Comments

"This is not a guy who has respected anybody else's rights, yet we as a country will respect his rights to the extent he has them. This is not a free speech issue...

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Leftists in NYC Protest Planned Deportation of Anti-Israel Activist Mahmoud Khalil

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 11, 2025 45 Comments

"Demonstrators gathered at Foley Square to call for his release. That group of protesters then started marching through Lower Manhattan."...

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Trump’s Education Dept. Investigating 60 Universities for ‘Antisemitic Harassment and Discrimination’

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 10, 2025 13 Comments

Dartmouth is the only Ivy League school that did not receive a letter....

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ICE Detain Columbia Activist in Trump Crackdown on Pro-Palestinian Protests (Update: White House Responds)

Posted by Ben Smith on March 09, 2025 56 Comments

Federal immigration authorities have detained Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Palestinian activist, and recent Columbia University graduate, in what appears to be an escalation of the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism among visa and green card holders. Khalil, who played a central role in student protests demanding Columbia divest from Israel, was taken into custody over the weekend.

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Senator John Fetterman Supports Trump Decision to Cut Funding to Columbia Over Antisemitism

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 09, 2025 5 Comments

"Columbia let antisemitism run amok to cater to lunatic fringe and paid provocateurs."...

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Trump Admin Strips Columbia of $400 Million in Grants

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 07, 2025 54 Comments

Trump already threatened higher education institutions to pull federal funding over illegal protests....

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Anti-Israel Students Arrested at Barnard College Are Mostly Children of Privileged Backgrounds

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 07, 2025 11 Comments

"Of the nine individuals arrested after storming Millstein Library, four are Columbia students"...

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Masked Anti-Israel Protesters Take Over Barnard College Library, NYPD Makes Arrests

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 06, 2025 22 Comments

"The disruption of academic activities is not acceptable conduct. We are committed to supporting our Columbia student body and our campus community during this challenging time."...

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Trump Threatens to Strip Funding to Colleges Over ‘Illegal Protests’

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 04, 2025 21 Comments

Three departments started reviewing federal contracts, grants connected to Columbia due to the antisemitic protests that plagued the campus last spring....

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Masked Anti-Israel Students Take Over Barnard College Building After Expulsion of Two Others

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 27, 2025 38 Comments

"footage of the storming of a Barnard campus building, Milbank Hall, shows droves of keffiyeh-clad student radicals shoving their way into a building entrance"...

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