Columbia is Finally Taking a Harder Line Against Student Activists
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Columbia did a better job handling the pro-Hamas activists on campus yesterday than it has previously. In the evening nearly 80 students who had refused to identify themselves were arrested. I wanted to follow up on a few loose threads. 





Hopefully, at some point during booking, the headscarves were removed and mugshots were taken of all of them. 

This guy is fighting with security the whole way out.

While the group inside the library was being arrested, the mob who were outside the library moved off campus and into the street. 

They spent some time scuffling with police.





As night fell, NYPD buses full of arrested “activists” rolled out.

Yesterday, I pointed out that after failing to force their way into the building, students called for a mediator. They then ushered this professor Joe Howley (green shirt) to the front.

It turns out he’s not just some random professor. He’s apparently been a supporter of the pro-Hamas mob for some time.





As of this morning, things are back to normal. The library has been restored to its pre-vandal condition.

And the protesters have all been released pending charges.

Unfortunately, what often happens is we have these arrests and then weeks later some jackass DA decides to drop the charges against everyone involved. But that failure isn’t on Columbia. Yesterday they did about the best they could do under the circumstances. They didn’t let the activists get away with it and didn’t let them leave without identifying themselves, even when a fire alarm was pulled.

Instead of relying on prosecutors or even Sec. Marco Rubio to handle this, they ought to just get the names of everyone arrested and suspend all of them for a year. They wanted to ruin finals week for other students, so ruin finals week for them. No finishing this semester. No grades. And no housing if they live on campus. Make them pay to retake all of these classes a year from now. Or just expel them and be done with it.





Finally, here’s new President Claire Shipman giving a pretty good response to what happened. “The group involved tonight is less than one percent of our 36,000 person student body,” she said. She added, “We will get back to business, the business of teaching, learning, studying, researching.”

Suspend or expel the activists involved. That’s the only way to put real accountability to work.





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