You take a few hours off and take over the library. That doesn't have to affect your studies at all. It's no different from hanging out with your friends or whatever.
A zero on the final is the wrath of god. An "E" (60%) might drop you a rank or two but a zero probably means you fail the entire class.
...has facts about every child educated in that area and every teacher...
Teachers are managed and licensed by the State, not the feds. All the educational forms I've ever gotten about my kids have also been State. You need the State's permission to start a school, not the feds.
The Department of Education is supposed to set/run financial aid (including loans), oversee research on education and disseminate this information to "inform policy and practice". They also enforce anti-discrimination laws.
Under their watch...
1) We haven't seen anything like a massive increase in student quality although they churn out new policies every few years just to change everything.
2) We've seen the massive increase in the cost of colleges.
3) We've also seen colleges decide that there are too many Asians going to college so they need to be held to different standards.
4) We had them remove due process under the Obama administration.
In addition in 2009 the GAO said...
5) They lack a common system to track and manage misuse of funds
6) They lack the staff an financial expertise to monitor their programs effectively.
These convictions are the corrections for the individuals but will do nothing to correct the system.
This was an example of the system working.
The cops beat someone to death and got charged with murder, thus the two that pled out. Even one the ones who watched got fired, charged with stuff, and convicted of some stuff.
That's a sea change right there. The body cams made a huge difference. A few years ago no one would have been fired.
The real issue is what happens without the public attention and outrage, and there we go to JB's comment about unions.
There are so many charges against those 5 it's hard to see what's going on in detail.
Bottom line is all 5 will be sentenced June 16th and we'll get summations then.
One of them pled or was has been found guilty of basically everything and is expected to do 15 years. Another has also pled guilty to various charges. Those two seem to be the most serious. Two of the others were found guilty of not very much (but something). The last is a mix between those two extremes.
Weirdly only 4 of the 5 have been decertified. Not sure if that's "one was barely involved" or if it's "we don't bother with someone going to prison for that long".
the protesters have five demands: divestment from “Zionist occupation, apartheid, and genocide,” an academic boycott of “all complicit institutions, including the cancellation of the Tel Aviv Global Center,” “cops and ICE off our campus,” an end to “Columbia’s occupation of Harlem; return land to Harlemites and open the gates,” and amnesty for all students, staff, and faculty “targeted by Columbia University’s discipline.”
Depends on whether or not they're allowed (forced?) to go back to Gaza.
In a normal war, we allow and encourage civilians to flee the combat zone.
And what are the alternatives? A "cease fire" where Hamas is left in charge and does this again in a decade or so? Israel keeps chasing the civilians from the North to the South and then back again?
The people of Gaza are suffering but Israel also has the right (and duty) to continue the war.
There is a big empty desert right over the border. Egypt has been building camps as a contingency if this happens.
Egypt isn’t going to take them in
Because the Palestinians go to war with whatever their host country is. However we shouldn't have any sympathy for Egypt.
Egypt has been the main source of weapons and whatever via those tunnels. If they're going to support Hamas over the border then forcing them to be involved in the cleanup is reasonable.
It's a war. Israel removes the civilians, kills the militants, then lets the civilians back.
Assuming they want to come back to a bombed out parking lot with lots of unexploded ordinance around.
There is no reason Israel has to lose give up the war because Hamas refuses to surrender. There is also no reason Israel has to fight it in a way that maximizes civilian deaths.
Moving the civilians out is more ethical, not less ethical, than the alternatives.
Israel has the power to engage in ethnic cleansing and might to win the war in Gaza. I.e. force the civilians to leave and assume everyone left is going to martyr themselves.
Not recognizing this and rigidly adhering to ideology means the conflict continues forever.
Rule #34: War is good for business
The head of Hamas gets to hide in another country and "earn" billions of dollars. The Priests have enemies to oppose and feel important.
No one needs to admit they could have accepted a better peace plan in 1948, 2000, 2007, and so on. No one needs to admit they lost to Jews or that their god failed them.
There are a lot of sunk costs they've already paid.
I'd say their plan is to keep the conflict going for centuries until they win.
That's fine. Different cultures have different priorities and this is clearly theirs. However IMHO we the West should allocate blame fairly and not let this issue corrupt our institutions.
Our tax dollars in the UN shouldn't be paying for Palestinians to be doing this sort of thing. We should also be clearly pointing out that there is no moral equivalence and the various crimes are ethically and legally on Hamas.
So if Israel shoots up an ambulance because Hamas uses them as troop carriers and Israel can't tell the difference, then that's on Hamas, not Israel.
Hamas could surrender and disarm, like the Axis did after WW2.
“As long as you don’t want to be ethnically cleaned, you will be,” is not much of an argument.
As long as the war goes on, the much weaker side is going to suffer more for it than the stronger side.
The war is going to go on until the Palestinians stop trying to destroy Israel.
Given that there were two native groups to that area, someone was always going to get "ethnically cleansed"... and having population exchanges is pretty normal in the context of country creation.
All of that abuse and "repression" goes away if the Palestinians are willing to drop the Right Of Return (i.e. the Right to Destroy Israel) and make peace.
As long as the end goal is "No Israel, No Jews", peace is impossible and they live with the side effects.
It's also not a good idea to describe normal wars as "genocide". Since we have no way to stop war, that will result in the various conventions which stop actual genocide being dismantled.
...imagine that instead of killing my family over there, they’re killing my family here...
OK, let's picture that. Mexican drug gangs take over a city in Northern Mexico and invade, slaughter, and kidnap thousands of Americans in South Texas.
We go to war and level the city in Mexico that they're in. They refuse to surrender, return the hostages, and even brag about how they're going to come back and repeat the entire mess until every American is dead.
There are claims of "genocide" because of the realities on how the war has to be fought and how every death is claimed by the gang to be a civilian.
The international community agrees with those claims and asks us to stop.
That's true per person. If the Lion's share of the family's money comes from someone else, then it doesn't really matter what happens to their job.
These are part time jobs to avoid paying benefits and they're deliberately structured so it's very hard to live off of them. So they don't live off of them.
We have changed our economic policy on imports an average of twice a day since this started. It's impossible for business to follow the law.
It's even impossible for our allies to make deals with Trump because he fired the people who would normally handle that and he's not honoring the deals he personally worked out last term.
No one is willing to invest right now. This is a firehose of chaos.
The answer is "the usual things which are illegal or banned are still illegal or banned". You (an immigrant) can assimilate at your own speed. If we fail to absorb you then we'll work on your children. It's a standing offer.(*)
America has been multicultural for a long time, these issues have mostly been worked out.
Among other things that means no violence or threat of violence.
(*) BTW that means our culture is the natural enemy of both Islam and Judaism. Lower your shields and surrender. We will add your distinctiveness to our own.
You cannot even start to make the argument about where what prisons someone belong in or what sport teams people should be able to play on, based on sex, until you can demonstrate there is a functional legal method to decide sex
And yet we still have women's prisons and women's sports. We even have those things for good reason.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025”
You take a few hours off and take over the library. That doesn't have to affect your studies at all. It's no different from hanging out with your friends or whatever.
A zero on the final is the wrath of god. An "E" (60%) might drop you a rank or two but a zero probably means you fail the entire class.
There aren't supposed to be consequences to this.
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Final exams at Columbia started today. More than one night in the tank would have meant they're missing their finals because they've been arrested.
Missing the Finals => Failing the Course.
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The Church is in favor of whatever is good for the Church, and the Church needs an enemy.
On “The Department of Good Things”
...has facts about every child educated in that area and every teacher...
Teachers are managed and licensed by the State, not the feds. All the educational forms I've ever gotten about my kids have also been State. You need the State's permission to start a school, not the feds.
The Department of Education is supposed to set/run financial aid (including loans), oversee research on education and disseminate this information to "inform policy and practice". They also enforce anti-discrimination laws.
Under their watch...
1) We haven't seen anything like a massive increase in student quality although they churn out new policies every few years just to change everything.
2) We've seen the massive increase in the cost of colleges.
3) We've also seen colleges decide that there are too many Asians going to college so they need to be held to different standards.
4) We had them remove due process under the Obama administration.
In addition in 2009 the GAO said...
5) They lack a common system to track and manage misuse of funds
6) They lack the staff an financial expertise to monitor their programs effectively.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025”
These convictions are the corrections for the individuals but will do nothing to correct the system.
This was an example of the system working.
The cops beat someone to death and got charged with murder, thus the two that pled out. Even one the ones who watched got fired, charged with stuff, and convicted of some stuff.
That's a sea change right there. The body cams made a huge difference. A few years ago no one would have been fired.
The real issue is what happens without the public attention and outrage, and there we go to JB's comment about unions.
"
There are so many charges against those 5 it's hard to see what's going on in detail.
Bottom line is all 5 will be sentenced June 16th and we'll get summations then.
One of them pled or was has been found guilty of basically everything and is expected to do 15 years. Another has also pled guilty to various charges. Those two seem to be the most serious. Two of the others were found guilty of not very much (but something). The last is a mix between those two extremes.
Weirdly only 4 of the 5 have been decertified. Not sure if that's "one was barely involved" or if it's "we don't bother with someone going to prison for that long".
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It wouldn't be "a civil war". It's more "they, personally, would be killed".
We've seen the peacemaker get killed at least twice.
And that issue is a lot worse for the Palestinians because they are the heads of militia/terror groups as opposed to functioning states.
They've also done no ideological preparing for it. They can't take that to their people without betraying everything they've told them thus far.
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the protesters have five demands: divestment from “Zionist occupation, apartheid, and genocide,” an academic boycott of “all complicit institutions, including the cancellation of the Tel Aviv Global Center,” “cops and ICE off our campus,” an end to “Columbia’s occupation of Harlem; return land to Harlemites and open the gates,” and amnesty for all students, staff, and faculty “targeted by Columbia University’s discipline.”
https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05/07/pro-palestinian-protesters-and-public-safety-officers-clash-at-emergency-rally-in-butler-library/
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Depends on whether or not they're allowed (forced?) to go back to Gaza.
In a normal war, we allow and encourage civilians to flee the combat zone.
And what are the alternatives? A "cease fire" where Hamas is left in charge and does this again in a decade or so? Israel keeps chasing the civilians from the North to the South and then back again?
The people of Gaza are suffering but Israel also has the right (and duty) to continue the war.
"
Remove all the civilians where?
There is a big empty desert right over the border. Egypt has been building camps as a contingency if this happens.
Egypt isn’t going to take them in
Because the Palestinians go to war with whatever their host country is. However we shouldn't have any sympathy for Egypt.
Egypt has been the main source of weapons and whatever via those tunnels. If they're going to support Hamas over the border then forcing them to be involved in the cleanup is reasonable.
"
It will be immoral as well.
It's a war. Israel removes the civilians, kills the militants, then lets the civilians back.
Assuming they want to come back to a bombed out parking lot with lots of unexploded ordinance around.
There is no reason Israel has to lose give up the war because Hamas refuses to surrender. There is also no reason Israel has to fight it in a way that maximizes civilian deaths.
Moving the civilians out is more ethical, not less ethical, than the alternatives.
"
Nobody is going anywhere.
Israel has the power to engage in ethnic cleansing and might to win the war in Gaza. I.e. force the civilians to leave and assume everyone left is going to martyr themselves.
Not recognizing this and rigidly adhering to ideology means the conflict continues forever.
Rule #34: War is good for business
The head of Hamas gets to hide in another country and "earn" billions of dollars. The Priests have enemies to oppose and feel important.
No one needs to admit they could have accepted a better peace plan in 1948, 2000, 2007, and so on. No one needs to admit they lost to Jews or that their god failed them.
There are a lot of sunk costs they've already paid.
I'd say their plan is to keep the conflict going for centuries until they win.
That's fine. Different cultures have different priorities and this is clearly theirs. However IMHO we the West should allocate blame fairly and not let this issue corrupt our institutions.
Our tax dollars in the UN shouldn't be paying for Palestinians to be doing this sort of thing. We should also be clearly pointing out that there is no moral equivalence and the various crimes are ethically and legally on Hamas.
So if Israel shoots up an ambulance because Hamas uses them as troop carriers and Israel can't tell the difference, then that's on Hamas, not Israel.
Hamas could surrender and disarm, like the Axis did after WW2.
"
“As long as you don’t want to be ethnically cleaned, you will be,” is not much of an argument.
As long as the war goes on, the much weaker side is going to suffer more for it than the stronger side.
The war is going to go on until the Palestinians stop trying to destroy Israel.
Given that there were two native groups to that area, someone was always going to get "ethnically cleansed"... and having population exchanges is pretty normal in the context of country creation.
"
These sorts of conflicts can last generations. This one already has and shows no sign of stopping.
"
All of that abuse and "repression" goes away if the Palestinians are willing to drop the Right Of Return (i.e. the Right to Destroy Israel) and make peace.
As long as the end goal is "No Israel, No Jews", peace is impossible and they live with the side effects.
It's also not a good idea to describe normal wars as "genocide". Since we have no way to stop war, that will result in the various conventions which stop actual genocide being dismantled.
"
...imagine that instead of killing my family over there, they’re killing my family here...
OK, let's picture that. Mexican drug gangs take over a city in Northern Mexico and invade, slaughter, and kidnap thousands of Americans in South Texas.
We go to war and level the city in Mexico that they're in. They refuse to surrender, return the hostages, and even brag about how they're going to come back and repeat the entire mess until every American is dead.
There are claims of "genocide" because of the realities on how the war has to be fought and how every death is claimed by the gang to be a civilian.
The international community agrees with those claims and asks us to stop.
What would it take for us to agree?
"
That's true per person. If the Lion's share of the family's money comes from someone else, then it doesn't really matter what happens to their job.
These are part time jobs to avoid paying benefits and they're deliberately structured so it's very hard to live off of them. So they don't live off of them.
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non-tenure track faculty feeling more free to be extremely partisan seems counterintuitive.
They have less to lose. Often a lot less. There's also the issue of whether being extremely partisan is a problem at becoming tenure track.
On “The Department of Good Things”
I think you mean this: https://x.com/garrytan/status/1919105128465944866
Also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdqAMrtQGRw
On “US Department of Education Announces that it is Restarting Loan Collection”
We have changed our economic policy on imports an average of twice a day since this started. It's impossible for business to follow the law.
It's even impossible for our allies to make deals with Trump because he fired the people who would normally handle that and he's not honoring the deals he personally worked out last term.
No one is willing to invest right now. This is a firehose of chaos.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025”
The answer is "the usual things which are illegal or banned are still illegal or banned". You (an immigrant) can assimilate at your own speed. If we fail to absorb you then we'll work on your children. It's a standing offer.(*)
America has been multicultural for a long time, these issues have mostly been worked out.
Among other things that means no violence or threat of violence.
(*) BTW that means our culture is the natural enemy of both Islam and Judaism. Lower your shields and surrender. We will add your distinctiveness to our own.
"
Very clearly the pro-Palestinian Left is using emotional reasoning.
Strip away that emotion and we have the following arguments,
1) "Israel should fight the war without killing anyone"
2) "no Israel, no Jews".
3) ???
It's not that I don't understand these conclusions, it's that I don't agree with them.
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The Pro-Palestinian left was protesting Israel after 10-7 but before Israel invaded Gaza.
Pictures of dead Jews is "you have to understand", pictures of dead Gazanias is "how can your heart be unmoved".
Big picture 10-7 was an act of war and we should expect certain pictures from a war.
On “Gender Critical: Legally Defining Sex”
You cannot even start to make the argument about where what prisons someone belong in or what sport teams people should be able to play on, based on sex, until you can demonstrate there is a functional legal method to decide sex
And yet we still have women's prisons and women's sports. We even have those things for good reason.
"
Hmm... that was a quote but I now only see Instagram and Facebook. I suspect this was a rumor that went viral and has now been retracted.
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