Dozens of protesters took over a building at Columbia University in New York early Tuesday, barricading the entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag out of a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war that have spread to college campuses nationwide. Video footage showed protesters on Columbia’s Manhattan campus locking arms in […]
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Ivy League professor: ‘I would much rather my own children interact with drugs than with the police’
Carl L. Hart was surprised when a student in one of his classes at Columbia University wrote an essay for The Washington Post about the effect of having him speak frankly about his past and the importance of having non-white faculty members. Hart took the opportunity to respond with his thoughts on race and higher education, […]