Apropos of nothing in particular I suddenly remembered that David Graeber’s favorite example of the persistence of brute force in the functioning of everyday life was what would happen to you if you tried to enter a university library without having the proper ID.

Fascinating letter from Hillel student leaders to the off-campus Jewish community.

“We cannot have a clearer ask for the off-campus Jewish community: stay off our campus. Do not fund any actions on campus. Do not protest on campus. Your actions are harming Jewish students.”

Just FYI this is her

Jeff Sharlet Dartmouth 🌲 Those cops were brutal to me. I promise I did absolutely nothing wrong. I was standing with a line of women faculty in the their 60s to 80s trying to protect our students. I have now been banned from the campus where I have taught for 34 years.

'Are you kidding me??' Police radicalizing students at... Dartmouth.

NYPD beats up some students and faculty and it’s basically Iwo Jima.

'This is what we encountered on every door inside of Hamilton Hall,' Sheppard says while showing off a chain-link bike lock.

'This is not what students bring to school, ok,' he also says of the bike locks.

Faculty Statement on Imminent Police Action at Columbia University
The American Association of University Professors, Columbia University Chapter
For immediate release: April 30, 2024, 8:00pm

At this hour, the NYPD is massing on barricaded streets outside the gates of Columbia…

Correct.

Off the top of my head, I can think of five alternate venues for Columbia’s graduation ceremonies. However, it would be a minor hassle so let’s arrest those kids.

Middle East Eye Here’s Emory University economics professor Caroline Fohlin knocked to the ground with her head on the concrete. Her glasses are thrown off. She shouts “I’m a professor”
#Gaza #Protesters

Part of the curriculum at Columbia Journalism School involves real-time reporting. Our students have been covering the campus protests happening now. Check out their work: journalism.columbia.edu/students-cover…

Good piece from Andrew Marantz. newyorker.com/news/daily-com…

Some friends of the Jews coming to Columbia today.

Keith Gessen I wrote Blackballed, about campus racism, and in my lecture, I tell people that most anti semitism on campus comes from predominately white fraternities and sororities. By FAR.

amazon.com/Blackballed-Bl…

Did not know this!