Graduates Boo Columbia’s President at Commencement After a Fraught Year
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30471304
By Sharon Otterman
May 21, 2025 Updated 4:08 p.m. ET"The celebrations at smaller graduation ceremonies on Tuesday were also punctuated by anger directed at Columbia administrators. At the graduation for Columbia College, the university’s main undergraduate school, some students repeatedly interrupted Ms. Shipman’s remarks with loud jeers. At one point, they chanted “Free Mahmoud.”"
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They should have also thrown tomatoes.
Rotten ones, like the corrupted leadership of Columbia U.
Why go to commencement?
They'll still give you the degree. The ceremony is about prestige. They have none.
Colleges are withholding diplomas for people who disagree with them/ wrong think.
NYU withholds diploma of graduate who condemned Gaza war
Slam dunk lawsuit. They have a transcript. Signed by NYU. Case closed.
If only the students weren't in crippling debt...
ACLU is taking these cases for free. Any idiot lawyer with time to spare will definitely strike up a CAL for this, and for free, because they'll make bank in the end, and also open the door for a larger lawsuit to sue the government. Lawyers are scrambling for these right now.
Good to know!
To let those corrupt leaders know that we know, and will work to get them exactly what traitors deserve.
You do that by boycotting the ceremony and publicly humiliating them and their attempt at keeping their prestige.
You help them by dressing up and doing their dance.
Nobody notices people who don’t show. Booing makes more sense.
In what world would nobody notice an empty crowd?
In what world would the crowd ever be that empty?
Booing them and making the news gives them prestige?
Attending their ceremonies? Dressing up in the school colors?
Yes.
Just to boo that asshole. Its worth it
They must all be antisemitic terrorist supporting national security risks and should be deported.
/s
Just get the Eurovision producers to come in and touch up the audio a bit...
Commencement, at the end?
In case you can't see the video. https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/two-women-arrested-for-allegedly-assisting-escaped-new-orleans-inmates-240079429924