The university is reiterating its commitment to free expression but indicting that the protestors are violating time, manner, place restrictions and risking campus safety:
A reporter was arrested yesterday but later released. It sounds like charges will not be pursued.
Later in the evening, the students said the administration brought Panera Bread for security but was denying food and bathroom access to students.
They were peeing in bottles.
Some students started to realize they might get arrested while trying to report that one young woman was in danger of toxic shock:
In the end, four students were arrested (three inside and one outside), and all the students inside were given interim suspensions, which means they can’t be on campus and had to leave by 5pm local yesterday.
In a new survey, 34% of prospective undergrads and 33% of their parents say the recent protests have decreased their interest in college:
Among parents, roughly half of Republicans, a third of independents, and a fifth of Democrats say the protests have decreased their interest in sending their kids to college:
The survey shows that the protests have had a negative impact on trust in higher education too:
@elianayjohnson and @aaronsibarium report that the Dean of Columbia College has put three deans on leave for text messages mocking concerns about antisemitism.
Then, as he tries to distance himself from the affair, they release more evidence of his involvement.
It’s based primarily on the recent People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit, which featured members of terrorist organizations and was attended by college students from around the country.
The WSJ set up a bunch of new Instagram accounts, set the age at 13, and within 3 minutes they were watching content made by “adult sex-content creators.”
Meta’s response? “This was an artificial experiment that doesn’t match the reality of how teens use Instagram.”
“Instagram served a mix of videos that, from the start, included moderately racy content such as women dancing seductively or posing in positions that emphasized their breasts. When the accounts skipped past other clips but watched those racy videos to completion, Reels recommended edgier content.”
“Adult sex-content creators began appearing in the feeds in as little as three minutes. After less than 20 minutes watching Reels, the test accounts’ feeds were dominated by promotions for such creators, some offering to send nude photos to users who engaged with their posts.”
In the press release, ABA President Mary Smith mentions “autocrats and dictators” threatening democracy “at home and around the globe,” but she doesn’t say anything about intolerance and ignorance on elite American law school campuses:
“The West Coast’s central problem is not so much that it’s unserious as that it’s infected with an ideological purity that is focused more on intentions than on oversight and outcomes.”
“We are more likely to believe that ‘housing is a human right’ than conservatives in Florida or Texas, but less likely to actually get people housed. We accept a yawning gulf between our values and our outcomes.”
“Politics always is part theater, but out West too often we settle for being performative rather than substantive.
“For example, as a gesture to support trans kids, Oregon took money from the tight education budget to put tampons in boys’ restrooms in elementary schools — including boys’ restrooms in kindergartens.”