Columbia alumni’s foolish diploma shredding: – Latest News
The Issue: Columbia University alumni ripping their diplomas in protest of Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest.
The activists who shredded their diplomas at Columbia University are more involved with activism than training (“Shred of the class,” March 31).
The picture clearly identifies who they’re and Columbia ought to refuse to difficulty duplicates. Using the college to reveal as a substitute of educate ought to have penalties.
Mel Young
Boca Raton, Fla.
Even if protesters are more like terrorists, as we proceed to see on school campuses and in Tesla dealerships, these alumni will declare freedom of speech regardless of acts of violence. Yet in Gaza this weekend, residents protesting towards Hamas resulted within the brutal killing of many harmless protesters.
The left can no longer inform proper from incorrect. What a distorted view they’ve of the world.
Larry Hootnick
Watermill
It’s attention-grabbing that at Columbia Alumni Day a quantity of protesters tore up their diplomas to object to the college administration’s resolution to succeed in a deal with President Trump over civil-rights violations and to protest the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil.
Does anyone actually care in the event that they tear up their diplomas? The solely one who would possibly is a future employer who needs to see a copy. Thus, they harm no person however themselves.
Violence, intimidation, rioting and destruction of property should not acts of free speech. Protest all you need in an applicable method — however that’s not what occurred at Columbia and most campuses round this nation.
Mindy Rader
New City
My suggestion to all of the sensible Columbia University graduates who’re ripping up the diplomas they labored so diligently for is to not try this.
Instead, when your idol Mahmoud Khalil is shipped back to the nation of his delivery, show your assist by buying a airplane ticket to affix him.
Herbert Mordkoff
Rockaway, NJ
This is the funniest protest ever. These alumni who paid hundreds to attend Columbia University are so indignant that they’ve trashed their diplomas.
Chances are, the levels they acquired weren’t going to get them well-paying jobs anyway.
Ron Heimer
Yuma, Ariz.
The Issue: President Trump’s tariff threats as Vladimir Putin stalls peace talks within the Ukraine-Russia warfare.
Vladimir Putin doesn’t care concerning the Russian economic system or the continued army losses (“Pain for Putin, Please,” Editorial, March 31).
All that issues to Putin is a important victory — not for Russia, however for himself.
President Trump loves tariffs, and sanctions have labored fairly nicely so far, however haven’t really crippled Putin’s potential to wage warfare. Until Putin’s potential to wage warfare is totally damaged, there will probably be no cease-fire.
Michael Hilder
Weymouth, UK
Trump’s feigned disappointment and harsh rhetoric, directed towards Putin, is fooling no one, particularly Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump’s threats of punitive motion are nothing new.
Zelensky understands that vacant rhetoric and hole ultimatums forfeit leverage, the important thing driver of any negotiating strategy.
Putin, a former KGB intelligence officer, who has already secured unilateral concessions upfront from Trump, additionally understands this and can no doubt exploit it to the utmost.
Jim Paladino
Tampa, Fla.
Playing good with Putin was by no means going to end in a sustainable settlement. The solely viable resolution to this battle, in addition to army motion, is to strangle Russia economically.
Thomas Urban
Wantagh
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