Columbia’s selfish graduation day protest: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Anti-Israel demonstrations, together with burning diplomas, at Columbia graduation ceremonies.
Serious college students at Columbia University and their households had been denied the chance to have fun graduation with out malcontents protesting and chanting (“The hatred commences at Columbia,” May 22).
It is attention-grabbing how demonstrators completely ignore the brutality of Oct. 7 and the persevering with hostage disaster. Real oppression in Iran, South Africa, Angola, Cambodia and more stays ignored. It reeks of anti-Jewish hypocrisy.
Yakov Moshe
Brooklyn
Universities needs to be the premier milieu at no cost and open expression of concepts and opinions in a respectful {and professional} method. Instead, the norm is turning into whoever shouts and threatens the loudest will get the say.
Many deserving college students had been turned away from admission to Columbia University, and right here we see a sampling of some of the privileged few burning their diplomas and disgracing their mother and father, fellow college students and professors on a day that ought to have had just one acceptable goal.
The diplomas of the perpetrators needs to be rescinded, and significant legal punishment needs to be enforced.
Karl Olsen
Watervliet
You don’t need a school diploma to acknowledge that these blatantly disruptive college students deserve expulsion and for his or her diplomas to be shredded.
While freedom of speech is a elementary proper, it has its limitations. These college students clearly dozed off in historical past class and missed the lesson explaining that speech inciting lawlessness or frightening violence will not be protected.
After 4 years of school, the one factor they managed to attain on graduation day was creating mayhem. If that was their aim upon coming into, then congratulations, mission achieved.
Judy Petillo-Eggert
Long Branch, NJ
Columbia University won’t ever be the identical. Its popularity can’t be restored, so it is going to shrivel up and die.
Thomas Birnbaum
Manhattan
Allowing protesters to put on masks is giving the inexperienced gentle to a KKK apply: Display your hate, cover your id.
If overseas college students are fearing deportation for collaborating in such cowardly acts towards fellow college students and employees, allow them to be afraid. They usually are not right here to assault simple, susceptible targets.
What occurred on the Columbia graduation ceremony is nothing much less than an act of battle and an invasion of our every day routines, as step one.
Gov. Kathy Hochul must stop hiding behind her skirt and convey the hammer down exhausting.
Susan Cienfuegos
New Rochelle
The Issue: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s column on the most recent reform of state discovery legal guidelines.
It is an insult to the residents of New York City that District Attorney Alvin Bragg thinks we’re so ignorant as to imagine that strict discovery legal guidelines have been solely accountable for his failure (“With Discovery Fixes, I’ll Try More Perps,” Alvin Bragg, May 23).
The fact is his own soft-on-crime, criminal-justice reform insurance policies have plagued town since he took workplace.
The modest leisure of discovery guidelines will help considerably, however it’s Bragg himself who stays the first cause for our crime downside.
Richard Carhidi
Manhattan
Does Alvin Bragg even learn the New York Post?
It doesn’t seem so as a result of there are criminals operating via the streets, but he’s writing about how discovery is a “big win for public safety.”
Releasing criminals is a every day risk to New Yorkers; it’s written within the paper day in and day out.
Was this column a joke?
Sara Gershon
Syosset
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