Anonymous wrote:This is terrible, the Palestinian protestors make me irate. Most top schools have them, and I feel for Administrators but they need to use a much heavier hand. It’s past time to crack down.

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It’s like that woman being prosecuted in California for threatening the city council. Ppl have no concern that there are consequences to actions.

Anonymous wrote:This is terrible, the Palestinian protestors make me irate. Most top schools have them, and I feel for Administrators but they need to use a much heavier hand. It’s past time to crack down.

College protests have been happening since time immemorial. I don't envy the college administrators as they're walking on a tightrope with this delicate, potentially explosive and politically charged situation. They have to answer to the students, their parents, lawyers, politicians, etc. Just look at what happened to the presidents of Penn and Harvard! Frankly, if you step back, its better for a student to be exposed to these kinds of dissension in a relatively controlled environment as you will never suppress dissension in college or life. You can't coddle your child forever.

This is terrible, the Palestinian protestors make me irate. Most top schools have them, and I feel for Administrators but they need to use a much heavier hand. It’s past time to crack down.

OP: does it change anything?

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Anonymous wrote:All the protests have been allowed all over campuses national wide with no regard to any specific situation or location. There has been very little pushback at all.

Vanderbilt just expelled three students and suspended a dozen others. The protestors - pro-Palestinian - had violently taken over a school building. These were very out-of-touch students. They actually called 911 to have the police deliver tampons. And effectively called a black police officer an Uncle Tom. For real. These protestors do tend to distinguish themselves. In an event, Vanderbilt handled it well with expulsions and suspensions. I don't think it'll happen again.

Bravo Vanderbilt.
On my DD list.

Think the German president/chancellor there is telling those kids “FAFO”….and he means it.

You are inadvertently making the opposite point from the one you are trying to make. So glad the German President does not tolerate dissent — that would be positively un-American.

This is not really news. Happened at Columbia, pomona, NYU, Claremont, tufts, Vandy, Northwestern, MIt, Stanford, Brown, Chicago, Harvard……. Will continue to happen everywhere as long as we humans continue to be so polarized

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Anonymous wrote:All the protests have been allowed all over campuses national wide with no regard to any specific situation or location. There has been very little pushback at all.

Honest question - would you want your kid going to a school where protest is “not allowed”?

No one said “not allowed”. Just not free range over every single space/area/behavior/action/graduation/private event/class etc.

That’s what this generation of kids do for better or worse at campuses across the country

This wasn’t allowed (sanctioned) but peaceful protests- even disruptive ones- are allowed. Vanderbilt isn’t “better” because they went after their kids…Vanderbilt’s situation was completely different with shoving (and histrionics- ie a girl calling 911 saying she wanted to change her tampon but police were not letting her).

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Anonymous wrote:All the protests have been allowed all over campuses national wide with no regard to any specific situation or location. There has been very little pushback at all.

Honest question - would you want your kid going to a school where protest is “not allowed”?

No one said “not allowed”. Just not free range over every single space/area/behavior/action/graduation/private event/class etc.

That’s what this generation of kids do for better or worse at campuses across the country

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Anonymous wrote:All the protests have been allowed all over campuses national wide with no regard to any specific situation or location. There has been very little pushback at all.

Honest question - would you want your kid going to a school where protest is “not allowed”?

No one said “not allowed”. Just not free range over every single space/area/behavior/action/graduation/private event/class etc.

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Anonymous wrote:All the protests have been allowed all over campuses national wide with no regard to any specific situation or location. There has been very little pushback at all.

Honest question - would you want your kid going to a school where protest is “not allowed”?

Nope- students have right to protest and yes, to disrupt as long as there is no violence. That’s part of American culture

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Anonymous wrote:All the protests have been allowed all over campuses national wide with no regard to any specific situation or location. There has been very little pushback at all.

Vanderbilt just expelled three students and suspended a dozen others. The protestors - pro-Palestinian - had violently taken over a school building. These were very out-of-touch students. They actually called 911 to have the police deliver tampons. And effectively called a black police officer an Uncle Tom. For real. These protestors do tend to distinguish themselves. In an event, Vanderbilt handled it well with expulsions and suspensions. I don't think it'll happen again.

Bravo Vanderbilt.
On my DD list.

Think the German president/chancellor there is telling those kids “FAFO”….and he means it.

Anonymous wrote:What do WL and AL mean?

WL = waitlist

AL was a typo for WL

What do WL and AL mean?

Anonymous wrote:All the protests have been allowed all over campuses national wide with no regard to any specific situation or location. There has been very little pushback at all.

Vanderbilt just expelled three students and suspended a dozen others. The protestors - pro-Palestinian - had violently taken over a school building. These were very out-of-touch students. They actually called 911 to have the police deliver tampons. And effectively called a black police officer an Uncle Tom. For real. These protestors do tend to distinguish themselves. In an event, Vanderbilt handled it well with expulsions and suspensions. I don't think it'll happen again.

Anonymous wrote:All the protests have been allowed all over campuses national wide with no regard to any specific situation or location. There has been very little pushback at all.

Honest question - would you want your kid going to a school where protest is “not allowed”?