I wrote this back in early November and I do still feel that part of what's missing from this is an appreciation that students are at university to learn (including to learn how to argue, protest, debate, push back) 1/2 slate.com/news-and-polit…

a good read on this exact phenomenon

I have been conducting research about the 1968 Columbia protests for such a long time, but I honestly do not know what to say right now. Except, perhaps, that student movements have been one of the most progressive, courageous political avantgardes of the past century

The press is being banned from the institution that administers the Pulitzer Prizes.

🚨UPDATE🚨 THOUSANDS of students at Columbia University are on the plaza with 100s of students occupying the West Lawn

You can’t call the cops on non-violent students to have them violently arrested and call yourself a fucking educator.

First USC, now Columbia—and it’s not even Friday. Major universities this week reminding pesky students that they are mostly corporations, with students as an inconvenient afterthought that can be dealt with through a range of repressive measures from censorship to policing.

New student circle on the lawn at Columbia. Arrests didn’t stop a thing.

I would not be—and am not—as brave as these students.

Deploying militarized police on your own students in the name of student safety. What more is there to say really?

I am automatically distrustful of any faculty member who condemns a student—or, worse, sets the carceral state against them—for non-violent civic engagement.

Arresting legal observers now seems to be standard fare at protests and it seems like they’re just getting away with it?

QTNA

Earlier today, Columbia University called in the NYPD to clear a student encampment from the East Lawn and arrest the students, but other students have now set up a new encampment on the opposite lawn and linked hands around it. In the background is Butler Library.

Grateful to one of my wonderful students for creating and sharing her art piece, Mending Palestine, with the community. A powerful, piercing, and, ultimately, hopeful depiction of what’s going on.

If I were an Ivy League president I would simply not sic riot police on scores of nonviolent student protesters in a bid to impress Elise Stefanik. Elise Stefanik will never be impressed. Have some dignity.

Ominous echoes of 1968

THEY ARE KETTLING THE ENCAMPMENT

Jesus, I see what you’ve done for other people, and I want that for me.

'Socialist Sound Worlds' is live in Slavic Review! Check out Matt Kendall's essay on reading noise into social encounters, Andrea Bohlman's about the intimacy of sound postcards, or mine on remastering and resurrecting Lenin through recording practices. cambridge.org/core/journals/…