When Columbia cancels its graduation due to college protests, it’s sending the precisely wrong message to pro-Hamas thugs.
The tail is still wagging the dog at Columbia.
In a total capitulation to the anti-Israel campus chaos-causers, the school just cancelled the university-wide commencement ceremony on May 15.
Don’t (exclusively) blame the window-smashing, breaking-and-entering, rule-breaking radicals: This is yet another failure of Columbia’s leadership.
The school’s claim that “students emphasized that these smaller-scale, school-based celebrations are most meaningful to them and their families” is complete horse manure.
The true reason is as clear as the ravaged grass on the West Lawn: The higher-ups don’t want a scene — yet don’t dare act to prevent one by expelling troublemakers and barring them from campus.
