Tag: Columbia University

A recent workshop offered to K-12 teachers at Columbia University sought to teach them how to be “agents of social justice.”

Columbia University student Joel Davis, who founded the international organization “Youth to End Sexual Violence” was charged this week with child sex crimes.

TEL AVIV – 250 people signed an open letter Tuesday calling on Columbia University to urge a professor to step down over his “anti-Semitic bigotry” after he claimed Israel is behind “every dirty treacherous ugly and pernicious act happening in the world.” Hamid

Columbia University Professor John McWhorter compared the social justice politics of white progressives to Christianity in a Thursday column for The American Interest.

Columbia University’s Lenfest Center for the Arts bears the message “GOD HATES GUNS, LOVES GAY PORN” prominently blazoned on the exterior of the building, according to a report Wednesday from the Catholic League.

New York City mice may be carrying some potentially harmful bacteria and viruses that could cause life-threatening diseases in humans, according to a study published Tuesday.

Student protesters at Columbia University allegedly put on an anti-Israel demonstration right next to a Holocaust Remembrance Day event.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg claimed Sunday that “sexism” and a “macho atmosphere” contributed to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election loss.

Administrators at Columbia University have announced that they will cover the security costs for any events featuring controversial guest speakers.

The Columbia University Marching Band justified physical violence against members of the Ivy League school’s College Republicans chapter during an event that took place last week.

The College Democrats at Columbia University are condemning themselves for an op-ed they published this year which criticized shutting down controversial speakers.

TEL AVIV – Princeton University’s Hillel House cancelled a talk by Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely following protests from a liberal Jewish campus group which accused the foreign minister of racism.

The Black Students’ Organization at Columbia University is demanding that administrators cut off funding to the school’s College Republicans chapter.

Documents published this week reveal that Columbia University plans to spend an additional $100 million on diversity efforts.

Hillary Clinton is reportedly looking at taking a formal teaching role at the Ivy League Columbia University.

Britain’s Tommy Robinson was prevented from speaking to Columbia University in the United States — via Skype — after Alt-Left activists and students hijacked the engagement.

A group of Columbia University students interrupted a class session last week being taught by a Title IX administrator to protest her role in the alleged mishandling of a sexual assault case on campus.

“American liberalism in the twenty-first century is in crisis,” writes Columbia University Professor Mark Lilla, due in no small part to its embrace of a “disastrous” identity politics that divides instead of uniting.

Columbia University has reached a settlement with former student Paul Nungesser, who was at the center of the “mattress girl” rape accusation.

Columbia University Professor John McWhorter argued that university campuses are the ‘least racist spots on Earth’ in a recent interview with New York Times columnist Frank Bruni.

The former Latin Kings gang member spent seven years in prison for assault and weapons charges before he turning his life around.

Columbia University’s student council this week overwhelmingly voted down a resolution that would have given the school’s entire student body an opportunity to express support for the anti-Israel BDS movement.

New York’s Columbia University cancelled a panel that was due to feature Breitbart’s Allum Bokhari and Charlie Nash, and The Gateway Pundit’s Lucian Wintrich, following “security concerns.”

TEL AVIV – A pro-Israel student group at Columbia University is launching “Hebrew Liberation Week” to counter the upcoming annual “Israeli Apartheid Week” by celebrating the connection between the Jews and Israel, the Algemeiner reported.

A lecture by Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon was disrupted Monday as supporters of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divest and Sanctions campaign burst in on the event.

A high-level whistleblower at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has revealed that the organization published manipulated data in a major 2015 report on climate change in order to maximize impact on world leaders at the UN climate conference in Paris in 2015.

Nine out of the 40 colleges named in a Jewish news organization’s list of the “worst college campuses for Jewish students in the nation” are located in California.

TEL AVIV – Holding signs saying “Zionism is racism,” anti-Israel protestors at Columbia University staged a walkout at an event Tuesday evening when a Jewish student spoke of his connection to the land of Israel, The Algemeiner reported.

Students and faculty at Columbia University have formed a coalition called “Columbia Against Trump,” which “seeks to take action against the Trump presidency.”

Benjamin Sweetwood jokingly called himself “handsome” in Chinese during a Chinese language class. This triggered feminists.

TEL AVIV – An inflatable 15-foot Pinocchio doll, designed to “draw attention to the lies of Israel Apartheid Week,” was placed by pro-Israel groups in front of a mock replica of the country’s security barrier at Columbia University last week, the Jerusalem Post reported.

TEL AVIV – Forty Columbia University faculty members have signed a petition in favor of divestment from companies related to Israel, the Columbia Spectator reported. The petition, which was signed on Monday – the first day of so-called Israel Apartheid Week, urged the Ivy League college to “divest from corporations that supply, perpetuate, and profit from a system that has subjugated the Palestinian people.”

A second film chronicling the life of young President Obama has been announced.

In their yearly wrap-up of what they deem “The Best and Worst Journalism of 2015,” the venerable and widely respected Columbia Journalism Review lays bare the sort of bias the Republicans can expect in the 2016 election cycle, as they claim the media “coddled” Donald Trump.

The American Anthropological Association (AAA) on Friday voted overwhelmingly in favor of a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. If it receives final approval, the embargo will apply to all institutions, but not individuals. The resolution calling for the boycott passed