Columbia Activism

[Anonymous]

So, how bad will Columbia be over the next few years do you think? DC gets into an Ivy and loves NYC. Yay! But now activists have a tent city and don't plan to move. I really don't care about what people protest about (please don't comment on the various sides of this issue) but I do care that DC has a grassy place to relax between classes and the ability to focus on studies. I heard that students couldn't even get on campus the other day without a huge hassle. That's not what I think about when I think of the college experience. So, do we give up the Ivy dream and commit someplace else? Thoughts?

[Anonymous]

Yea go somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, how bad will Columbia be over the next few years do you think? DC gets into an Ivy and loves NYC. Yay! But now activists have a tent city and don't plan to move. I really don't care about what people protest about (please don't comment on the various sides of this issue) but I do care that DC has a grassy place to relax between classes and the ability to focus on studies. I heard that students couldn't even get on campus the other day without a huge hassle. That's not what I think about when I think of the college experience. So, do we give up the Ivy dream and commit someplace else? Thoughts?

Nonsense and you know it.

[Anonymous]

This is enough grassy place to relax in almost every community college.

[Anonymous]

The Columbia protesters think the world revolves around them, & that makes it permissible to be loud, obnoxious know-it-alls who think nothing of inconveniencing others others. In other words, they are typical New Yorkers. If you fall for the NYC mirage, this is what you get.

[Anonymous]

The whole situation is so scary, and it doesn't look like it's going to end soon. And let's be honest: Columbia isn't Harvard or Yale reputation-wise. It's a pretty crappy environment overall, amd student morale was very low even before these protests.

Keep that in mind when your DC compares it to peer schools like Rice and such.

[Anonymous]

Columbia has always been the activist Ivy with a large number of students more interested in disrupting than learning. It was bad when I attended 15 years ago and I can’t even imagine being a student there now.

[Anonymous]

Not going to get better any time soon. Take Columbia off the list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, how bad will Columbia be over the next few years do you think? DC gets into an Ivy and loves NYC. Yay! But now activists have a tent city and don't plan to move. I really don't care about what people protest about (please don't comment on the various sides of this issue) but I do care that DC has a grassy place to relax between classes and the ability to focus on studies. I heard that students couldn't even get on campus the other day without a huge hassle. That's not what I think about when I think of the college experience. So, do we give up the Ivy dream and commit someplace else? Thoughts?

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, how bad will Columbia be over the next few years do you think? DC gets into an Ivy and loves NYC. Yay! But now activists have a tent city and don't plan to move. I really don't care about what people protest about (please don't comment on the various sides of this issue) but I do care that DC has a grassy place to relax between classes and the ability to focus on studies. I heard that students couldn't even get on campus the other day without a huge hassle. That's not what I think about when I think of the college experience. So, do we give up the Ivy dream and commit someplace else? Thoughts?

We? Grassy place to relax? I think I hate you already, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yea go somewhere else.

Yea, it'll free up a seat for someone on wait-list and one who could care less about protests. Plenty of other places to study or relax in nyc.

[Anonymous]

Here’s a link to a Life magazine from 1968. Notice what it says on the cover in the top right corner. Inside this issue was a big article about the students taking over the Columbia University. Different century, same insufferable students.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/404292575712

[Anonymous]

Those students were right about Vietnam. And the sit-ins that started there and spread to the rest of the country were pivotal in moving sentiment against involvement in Vietnam. When it was no longer tenable politically, the war was over.

[Anonymous]

Uneducated, unkempt and self-absorbed. No thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those students were right about Vietnam. And the sit-ins that started there and spread to the rest of the country were pivotal in moving sentiment against involvement in Vietnam. When it was no longer tenable politically, the war was over.

Vietnam and Israel are not the same.