Columbia Finally Suspends "Students" Involved in Library Putsch

Justice delayed is justice denied.

This is about a terrorist "library takeover" that happened in May 2024.

The students took over the library, chanting antisemitic, pro-terrorist chants.

Campus security, Sexton says, did something smart: They locked the radicals in the library. They told them they could leave... but only if they presented student IDs so that they could be identified for possible future discipline.

The terrorists refused and attempted to barricade themselves in the library to avoid accountability. When the police were called, they attempted to violently ram their way past campus security and the police.

80 were arrested -- but Columbia refused to actually discipline the Hitler Youth.

Until now -- while being pressured by Trump to crack down on violent antisemitic pro-terrorist college radicals.

From the NY Post:

More than 70 students are set to be punished for their involvement in the hugely disruptive Butler Library chaos that unfolded on May 7, as well as the encampment that popped up on the Morningside Heights campus in spring 2024, sources familiar with the disciplinary action said.
Roughly two-thirds of those will be hit with suspensions between one and three years, with the majority being hit with two-year suspensions, the sources said.
Those involved were informed of their punishments on Monday following a probe by the elite school's University Judicial Board.

Sexton's post has the videos of the putsch.

Posted by: Ace at 06:00 PM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 Fear is a good motivator.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 22, 2025 03:53 PM (N1DT3)

2 HI!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 22, 2025 03:53 PM (HL/Ld)

3 Hello

Posted by: fourseasons at July 22, 2025 03:54 PM (3ek7K)

4 And NOTHING would have happened if Trump weren't threatening their money.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 22, 2025 03:54 PM (N1DT3)

5
Fear is a good motivator.

=============

As is reality.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 22, 2025 03:54 PM (HL/Ld)

6 Huh?

Posted by: Beartooth at July 22, 2025 03:55 PM (8wKVG)

7 FAFO FTW!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2025 06:01 PM (dKEEs)

8 Nooded.

Posted by: Dad of Six at July 22, 2025 06:01 PM (zEGl4)

9 Top 10!

Posted by: Crusader at July 22, 2025 06:01 PM (TN0g+)

10 Wasn't this posted earlier...?

Posted by: bearski at July 22, 2025 06:02 PM (Bhsk7)

11 Don't these little shits have homework and drinking to do?

Why are you even in college bruh?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 22, 2025 06:02 PM (RlmPm)

12 Not exactly as sexy as the Beer Hall Putsch.

Or maybe exactly as sexy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2025 06:02 PM (cEEir)

13 When the police were called, they attempted to violently ram their way past campus security and the police.
---------

At that moment is when they should have found themselves facing jail time, regardless of future "suspensions".

Posted by: Crusader at July 22, 2025 06:03 PM (TN0g+)

14 Is Ayers still teaching there?

Posted by: davidt at July 22, 2025 06:03 PM (i0F8b)

15 Unsatisfactory.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at July 22, 2025 06:03 PM (jYRYu)

16 Not exactly as sexy as the Beer Hall Putsch.

Or maybe exactly as sexy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Trust me, the Beer Hall Putsch was very sexy.
-- Zombie Ernst Roehm

Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 06:04 PM (77rzZ)

17 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2025 06:04 PM (Zz0t1)

18 Fear is a good motivator.
---
Or you could end up in VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2025 06:04 PM (krQz2)

19 Should make them serve out their suspensions by sending them to preach Queer Theory in the Gaza Strip.

Posted by: ballistic at July 22, 2025 06:04 PM (3BwY8)

20 They should've looked up the definition of 'expelled.'

This is still unacceptable.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2025 06:04 PM (Zz0t1)

21 It's called a putsch because everyone was putsching and shoving!

Posted by: andycanuck at July 22, 2025 06:05 PM (2yoRf)

22 Columbia U - Where education goes to die. (tm)

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2025 06:05 PM (rvwwT)

23 No federal funds for Columbia.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 22, 2025 06:05 PM (/U5Yz)

24 They really screwed the putsch.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2025 06:05 PM (Zz0t1)

25 Now youse can't leave.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2025 06:06 PM (viF8m)

26 Follow up on the last thread. If you don't think Trump is serious about really going after Obama, listen to his off the cuff comments from the Oval Office today while sitting with the leader of the Philippines.

He's not going to let it slide. And, then he said Gabbard will be releasing 1000's of more document pages backing it up. I believe Trump's comment was, "Obama is nailed cold. And he will feel the full weight of the justice system."

Posted by: Orson at July 22, 2025 06:06 PM (dIske)

27 At that moment is when they should have found themselves facing jail time, regardless of future "suspensions".
Posted by: Crusader at July 22, 2025 06:03 PM (TN0g+)

Seriously. Get caught with a beer at 20 years 11 months old and they'll ruin you. Take hostages and assault the police and it's "Oh well you know things happen they're just expressing themselves"

Da fuq.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 22, 2025 06:06 PM (RlmPm)

28
s Ayers still teaching there?

Posted by: davidt

I thought that he taught at the University of Chicago.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 22, 2025 06:06 PM (xG4kz)

29 NASA @NASA 6h
Uranus is warmer than we thought.

New computer modeling techniques revealed that Uranus generates internal heat. This is similar to our solar system’s other gas giants, like Jupiter or Neptune.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 22, 2025 06:06 PM (2yoRf)

30 They'll use this notoriety to get cushy jobs they aren't entitled to.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 22, 2025 06:06 PM (xcxpd)

31 Lets see if these suspensions are really served. Columbia will find sone way to scumbag themselves here, I have zero doubt. Claire Shipman will put one of these POS on her board, probably.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 22, 2025 06:06 PM (vV7yf)

32 It's called a putsch because everyone was putsching and shoving!
Posted by: andycanuck at July 22, 2025 06:05 PM (2yoRf)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2025 06:06 PM (cEEir)

33 Columbia?

The gem of the ocean?

Posted by: eleven at July 22, 2025 06:06 PM (fV+MH)

34 I am gonna go out on a limb and say the faculty got a serious amount of push back from alumni donors before they reluctantly made this decision.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 22, 2025 06:07 PM (e5NfL)

35
Oh. Darn, I liked the last thread, but detouring those entitled brats for a few years also brightens my day. I wonder if Ilhan Omar's brat is one of the suspended ones.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 22, 2025 06:07 PM (HL/Ld)

36 NASA @NASA 6h
Uranus is warmer than we thought.

New computer modeling techniques revealed that Uranus generates internal heat. This is similar to our solar system’s other gas giants, like Jupiter or Neptune.
Posted by: andycanuck at July 22, 2025 06:06 PM (2yoRf)

But, I thought the science was settled.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2025 06:07 PM (Zz0t1)

37 It's odd, I haven't seen anything, even just posts, from these people defending the palestinians, when it comes to the slaughter happening in Syria. I mean these people are out there fighting because they are against war and genocide, especially partially funded by the US, but somehow they don't get riled up about genocide and war crimes being committed against non-muslims or by others than Israel.

It's almost like they are full of shit, and addres just commie terrorist supporters who love when muslims try to wipe out anyone not of their shit religion, which seems like it would be offering support to terrorism, and worthy of the wood chipper.

Posted by: Rbastid at July 22, 2025 06:07 PM (FSDri)

38 NASA @NASA 6h
Uranus is warmer than we thought.

New computer modeling techniques revealed that Uranus generates internal heat. This is similar to our solar system’s other gas giants, like Jupiter or Neptune.
Posted by: andycanuck at July 22, 2025 06:06 PM (2yoRf)
---
That global warming really gets around...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2025 06:07 PM (IBQGV)

39 >>>>Uranus is warmer than we thought.

Is that you, Obama?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 22, 2025 06:08 PM (rvwwT)

40 New computer modeling techniques revealed that Uranus generates internal heat. This is similar to our solar system’s other gas giants, like Jupiter or Neptune.
Posted by: andycanuck at July 22, 2025 06:06 PM (2yoRf)

YOU ALL KNOW EXACTLY WHY THIS IS FUNNY STOP MAKING ME DO ALL THE WORK HERE

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at July 22, 2025 06:08 PM (RlmPm)

41
Ayers taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, not the University of Chicago

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 22, 2025 06:08 PM (xG4kz)

42 Unsatisfactory

When you get right down to it, life is pretty much graded on a pass/fail basis.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 22, 2025 06:08 PM (/y8xj)

43 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE, URANUS IS HOTTER THAN WE THOUGHT AND BARACK OBAMA'S ANUS IS GOING TO HEAT UP MORE THAN IT ALREADY IS.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at July 22, 2025 06:08 PM (/U5Yz)

44 What about the illegals at Columbia? You know they are there. Send to Alligator Alcatraz!

I don't think suspensions are going to work that well to shut them up.

I think I have become the new Willow to end posts.

Speaking of Willow, is she still around?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 22, 2025 06:09 PM (6PCLE)

45
*oh, hey, wow, no need to invoke the "5 o'clock somewhere" clause!*
woohoo!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2025 06:09 PM (dKEEs)

46 Columbia?

The gem of the ocean?
Posted by: eleven at July 22, 2025 06:06 PM (fV+MH)

No Columbia was in the sky. Rapture was under the ocean.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2025 06:09 PM (cEEir)

47 Just a terrible school. I'm glad my son went to a small, lesser known school where none of that terrible stuff went on.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2025 06:09 PM (2GCMq)

48 Putch yer hands in the air, like you don't care.

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2025 06:09 PM (krQz2)

49 I thought that he taught at the University of Chicago.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 22, 2025 06:06 PM (xG4kz)
--------
The home of free speech!? Bite your tongue, sir!

He taught at a state university Chicago campus, whose name I cannot recall. Some low-rent fake "education" courses too, designed only to get him a public pension (which all trust fund murderers believe is their due).

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 22, 2025 06:09 PM (vV7yf)

50 what a bummer being a recent graduate of Harvard, Columbia, Penn and other similar joke factories

Posted by: DanMan at July 22, 2025 06:09 PM (8uzBS)

51 38, yeah, weird, innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2025 06:10 PM (dKEEs)

52 Suspensions. Pffftttt.

Where are the trebuchets ?

Posted by: jsg at July 22, 2025 06:10 PM (1l+t9)

53 Willowed:

Before Clinton goes belly-up, he ought to do a general service for all humanity, and-

rank all the famous gals, movie stars, etc. he banged as to their fuckability and being fun in the sack.

And the reasons for their scores.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2025 06:11 PM (iJfKG)

54 NASA @NASA 6h
Uranus is warmer than we thought.
------------
Some salsa is hotter than others

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 22, 2025 06:11 PM (vV7yf)

55 What about the illegals at Columbia? You know they are there. Send to Alligator Alcatraz!

I don't think suspensions are going to work that well to shut them up.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 22, 2025 06:09 PM (6PCLE)
---
I thought it had been renamed by the Left to Alligator Auschwitz.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2025 06:11 PM (IBQGV)

56 So, the students get expelled.

What happened to the ones involved who are not students? IIRC there were quite a few of those involved in the riot too.

Deported? In jail? Out of jail on bond? What?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 22, 2025 06:11 PM (Q4IgG)

57
He taught at a state university Chicago campus, whose name I cannot recall. Some low-rent fake "education" courses too, designed only to get him a public pension (which all trust fund murderers believe is their due).

Posted by: Huck Follywood

Yes, see #41

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 22, 2025 06:11 PM (xG4kz)

58 42, but he lived in Hyde Park, where UofC is located ... thus the confusion.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2025 06:12 PM (dKEEs)

59 52, exactly!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2025 06:13 PM (dKEEs)

60 Hail Columbia?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 22, 2025 06:13 PM (0eaVi)

61 NASA @NASA 6h
Uranus is warmer than we thought.

New computer modeling techniques revealed that Uranus generates internal heat. This is similar to our solar system’s other gas giants, like Jupiter or Neptune.
Posted by: andycanuck at July 22, 2025 06:06 PM (2yoRf)

But, I thought the science was settled.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2025 06:07 PM (Zz0t1)

I hate to break it to them, but the computer model does not, actually, change the temperature of Uranus.

I'm also wondering why they would think Uranus would be different than the other gas giants in the first place. Any planet with radioactive matter in it generates some internal heat.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2025 06:14 PM (8avO+)

62 The Gem of the Ocean?

Posted by: Eromero at July 22, 2025 06:14 PM (LHPAg)

63 They really screwed the putsch.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 22, 2025 06:05 PM (Zz0t1)

Despite admonitions to the contrary, they did not, in fact, putsch it real good.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2025 06:14 PM (i24o9)

64 Columbia has not changed and never will. They just want to get off President Trump's shit list

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 22, 2025 06:14 PM (miSxm)

65
Ballroom Blitz > Library Putsch

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2025 06:14 PM (iJfKG)

66 You're doing wrong.

If you seek to execute a putsch, you don't hold up in a fucking library like bitches, you focus your aggression on the institutions that are suppressing your righteous desire.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2025 06:14 PM (/gTjv)

67 How Trump has time to fix universities when he is so busy saving the world and our economy, I will never know. The man is a hero.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 22, 2025 06:15 PM (vV7yf)

68 Bondi has already removed the woman the NJ judges replaced Alina Habba with.

@USAttyHabba has been doing a great job in making NJ safe again. Nonetheless, politically minded judges refused to allow her to continue in her position, replacing Alina with the First Assistant.

Accordingly, the First Assistant United States Attorney in New Jersey has just been removed.

This Department of Justice does not tolerate rogue judges — especially when they threaten the President’s core Article II powers.

https://tinyurl.com/h3dtcv7c (x link)

Posted by: Ann at July 22, 2025 06:15 PM (4neFu)

69 53 Willowed:

Before Clinton goes belly-up, he ought to do a general service for all humanity, and-

rank all the famous gals, movie stars, etc. he banged as to their fuckability and being fun in the sack.

And the reasons for their scores.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2025 06:11 PM (iJfKG)

If he does that, I will attend his funeral and keep my mouth shut for the whole day.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 22, 2025 06:15 PM (xcxpd)

70 All that money and these assholes are skipping the booze, drugs and sex - after the ten page sexual intercourse consent forms.

Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 14.3 % at July 22, 2025 06:15 PM (jvJvP)

71 The home of free speech!? Bite your tongue, sir!

The University of Chicago employed terrorist supporter Rashid Khalidi for eight years.

It was his farewell party in Chicago where Barack Obama famously made comments lionizing Khalidi - the Los Angeles Times has a copy of the audio, but refuses to release it.

Posted by: Iggy Pop! at July 22, 2025 06:15 PM (xTIDn)

72 Are those suspensions going to be on their permanent records? Gosh that would show them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2025 06:15 PM (Cdp18)

73 Then there were the anti semetic creeps at the University of of Michigan who cut down hundreds of peonies in a garden there- a garden which had been there since the 1920 because of a protest against Israel and they left a sign saying " Fliwers don't matter. People do. " I hope they get nailed:

https://tinyurl.com/ykv8xr2k

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2025 06:15 PM (2GCMq)

74 If you could live on Uranus, would you be called a Uranian or a Hemorrhoid ?

Posted by: jsg at July 22, 2025 06:15 PM (1l+t9)

75 This reminds me that, around that same time, there was some demonstration or ructions going on in front of my former employer . . . and that afternoon when I went to leave, the gate leading to the street was locked. I pointed out to the cop on duty that I worked there, was not a student, and needed to *leave,* not to enter. And that my car was parked directly across the street. And the "protests" were long over by that time.

"Oh, no, we can't open the gate." So I had to walk close to a mile in heavy May heat just to get to my car. Made me even more determined to get out of the place.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 22, 2025 06:16 PM (omVj0)

76
‘The Breakfast Club’ Star Molly Ringwald Says ‘Silver Lining’ Stephen Colbert ‘Is Free to Run for President’

The dumb ... it burns!

A simply lovely photo, too, at Breitbart --

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/07/21/

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 22, 2025 06:17 PM (xG4kz)

77 Kick them out of the school and kick them out of the country if they are foreign students . That was not peaceful protest

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2025 06:17 PM (2GCMq)

78 CHOP in Seattle remains my favorite take over, so far!

They had a board meeting that went haywire on live tv and I laughed my arse off. There was closed captioning that added to the insanity. Granted, the mics were bad, along with everything else. There were signs around the tents and little weird veg gardens. I think one garden had a pineapple stuck in the ground. Someone sarcastic reported and I read his stuff. I wish I had saved it.

The meeting was for election of officers. This led to fighting over the mic, if I recall. I was laughing a lot. Some people, randos, would talk in the mic. One Native American talked of her dead sister, which is sad (I am not heartless!). I did, however, bust out laughing as her name, on the translation by cc was, "My Pretty Pony."

I lost my mind at this point and my husband arrived to ask wth I was doing. I laugh loudly and with no restraint. I try to control myself when appropriate, but there's no promises made. My family know this. Some people I can't sit next to at funerals, etc.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 22, 2025 06:17 PM (6PCLE)

79 If you could live on Uranus, would you be called a Uranian or a Hemorrhoid ?

Posted by: jsg at July 22, 2025 06:15 PM (1l+t9)

Klingon.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2025 06:17 PM (i24o9)

80 69, endorsed!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2025 06:17 PM (dKEEs)

81 Maybe it's just me, but, I think a liberal application of bear spray on the idiots who barricaded themselves in the library would have worked wonders.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 22, 2025 06:17 PM (tT6L1)

82 Seriously, why would Columbia WANT any of these assholes at their school?

If I were another university, I'd be giving the stink eye to any student wanting a sudden transfer from Columbia. Thanks, but nah.

By the way, the delay is pretty easy to explain - wait till schools is out. Then wait some more. All these assholes have gone home for the summer. It's hot, they are sitting by the pool, maybe drunk...and unlikely coalesce into another protest. Sound strategy.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 22, 2025 06:17 PM (gDhA9)

83
Lets see if these suspensions are really served. Columbia will find sone way to scumbag themselves here, I have zero doubt. Claire Shipman will put one of these POS on her board, probably.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

==============

This seems to have been negotiated, shall we say, by Trump, with federal monies at risk. I don't think they'll scumbag it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 22, 2025 06:18 PM (HL/Ld)

84 Accordingly, the First Assistant United States Attorney in New Jersey has just been removed.

This Department of Justice does not tolerate rogue judges — especially when they threaten the President’s core Article II powers.

https://tinyurl.com/h3dtcv7c (x link)
Posted by: Ann at July 22, 2025 06:15 PM (4neFu)

meek voice:

This sounds like a job for....

even meeker voice:

Congress.

(rips open shirt with a giant "P" on it)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 22, 2025 06:18 PM (0eaVi)

85 Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2025 06:11 PM (iJfKG

How would that be a service for humanity unless it causes shame for people who willingly had sex with awful Bill Clinton?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2025 06:18 PM (2GCMq)

86 >>Follow up on the last thread. If you don't think Trump is serious about really going after Obama, listen to his off the cuff comments from the Oval Office today while sitting with the leader of the Philippines.

It's retarded to think that with all of the crap they tried to do to destroy Trump, his family, friends and supporters including using the DOJ to try and through him in prison for life, railroad the J6ers for protesting a corrupt election they stole from him and on and on and on, that Trump will just let it slide. He's going after them.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2025 06:18 PM (viF8m)

87 73, agreed, FS! thank you!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2025 06:19 PM (dKEEs)

88 And the reasons for their scores.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2025 06:11 PM (iJfKG)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg - 7 - doily play, won't shut up about Andrea Dworkin though.

The '97 Cardinals Cheerleaders - 6 - i mean who hasn't

The Washington Monument - 10 - hot aluminum on a cool evening, with the creak of the slings and the manic rush of the helicopter wash, is a forbidden love that few men will ever know. And the pilot had to watch too. Tee hee.

Hillary - NaN - not even once. Fuck you for even thinking that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 22, 2025 06:19 PM (RlmPm)

89 By the way - invaded a building barricaded themselves in, refused to show ID, attempted to bust out...damaged the building and finishings.

Enjoy your career at Starbucks assholes.

By the way, that is a 2-year suspension - imagine having finished two years of school, then taking two off. My guess is 90% will never return to finish.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 22, 2025 06:20 PM (gDhA9)

90 Each one of the suspended students should have to go on a date with Columbia's Mattress Girl. Deal with that minefield

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2025 06:20 PM (Cdp18)

91 Accordingly, the First Assistant United States Attorney in New Jersey has just been removed.

This Department of Justice does not tolerate rogue judges — especially when they threaten the President’s core Article II powers.

https://tinyurl.com/h3dtcv7c (x link)
Posted by: Ann a

So, is Habba back in? I'm so confused.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 22, 2025 06:21 PM (/U5Yz)

92 Two year suspension from Columbia?

What does that mean -- a year overseas at an affiliated college and a year at an NGO?

This is not punishment, it is diversion. They should be expelled.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 22, 2025 06:21 PM (DXW74)

93 So, how hot is Uranus?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 22, 2025 06:21 PM (97NWC)

94 By the way - invaded a building barricaded themselves in, refused to show ID, attempted to bust out...damaged the building and finishings.

Enjoy your career at Starbucks assholes.

By the way, that is a 2-year suspension - imagine having finished two years of school, then taking two off. My guess is 90% will never return to finish.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 22, 2025 06:20 PM (gDhA9)

saved themselves 2 years of programming.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2025 06:21 PM (8avO+)

95 So, how hot is Uranus?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 22, 2025 06:21 PM (97NWC)

They never checked

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2025 06:22 PM (8avO+)

96 So, how hot is Uranus?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 22, 2025 06:21 PM (97NWC)

98.6 F, coincidentally.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2025 06:22 PM (i24o9)

97 > -- Zombie Ernst Roehm
Posted by: Bulg at July 22, 2025 06:04 PM (77rzZ)

Ah, yes. That era's equivalent of the modern-day "Queers for Palestine". Ended about as well as one would expect.

Just saw an Ozzy story I hadn't heard before.

At one point some occultists set up outside the hotel where Sabbath was staying... magic circle, pentagrams, black candles, chanting, the whole bit.

Ozzy got fed up, went outside, sang "Happy Birthday" and blew out all their candles.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 22, 2025 06:22 PM (qpyNK)

98 I think Uranus is plenty hot - Pete Buttgiggle

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2025 06:23 PM (Cdp18)

99 If you seek to execute a putsch, you don't hold up in a fucking library like bitches, you focus your aggression on the institutions that are suppressing your righteous desire.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2025 06:14 PM (/gTjv)

Yeah, this wasn't a putsch. Probably a different word is needed. It's not like Mahmoud Khalil can magically be recognized as the new Dean.
This was closer to the SDS takeover of Columbia's buildings in 1968. Except that the SDS got what they wanted.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 22, 2025 06:23 PM (gKWVE)

100 93 So, how hot is Uranus?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Not as hot as it used to be.

Posted by: Frank Luntz at July 22, 2025 06:23 PM (/U5Yz)

101 98.6 F, coincidentally.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2025 06:22 PM (i24o9)
------------

And after the "Run to the Border?"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 22, 2025 06:23 PM (tT6L1)

102 > Each one of the suspended students should have to go on a date with Columbia's Mattress Girl. Deal with that minefield
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 22, 2025 06:20 PM (Cdp1

Whatever happened to her, anyway? Is she still lugging the mattress around.

She was reasonably cute, as I recall. The young man in question learned an object lesson on why one should never, never, EVER stick it in crazy, no matter how cute it is.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 22, 2025 06:24 PM (qpyNK)

103 I brought up my brother in the past.

He went to an Honor Code school, and would brag to me about how easy it was to cheat. I thought he was despicable, but he had it all figured out. He was the smart on.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 22, 2025 06:25 PM (DXW74)

104 Accordingly, the First Assistant United States Attorney in New Jersey has just been removed.

This Department of Justice does not tolerate rogue judges — especially when they threaten the President’s core Article II powers.

https://tinyurl.com/h3dtcv7c (x link)
-----------

Well, anyone here who says Bondi never does anything will now need to attach an asterisk to that assertion going forward.

Posted by: Crusader at July 22, 2025 06:25 PM (TN0g+)

105 She was reasonably cute, as I recall. The young man in question learned an object lesson on why one should never, never, EVER stick it in crazy, no matter how cute it is.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 22, 2025 06:24 PM (qpyNK)
----------

Believe it or not, I think she realized she royally screwed up and has repented of her ways.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 22, 2025 06:25 PM (tT6L1)

106 Brava Christy! Laugh loudly and without restraint!
what's the point, otherwise?

(Mrs Eez is the same way and has my unconditional support!)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2025 06:25 PM (dKEEs)

107 The Olympics bent the knee to Trump.

No Fake Women in Women's events.

https://tinyurl.com/2ydtd52n

Posted by: jsg at July 22, 2025 06:25 PM (1l+t9)

108 @USAttyHabba has been doing a great job in making NJ safe again. Nonetheless, politically minded judges refused to allow her to continue in her position, replacing Alina with the First Assistant.
---
This is the second one.
Because of Senate "blue slips"
Which is going to be killed, Trump is building the case and Thune will have to act.

It's a bullshit rule that only benefits Democrats.

There is no "what if a Democrat becomes President and wants to appoint liberal judges to a red state?!"

They already do and have, so what's the fucking point?

You know what is rarer than a hen's tooth? A conservative judge in a blue state.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2025 06:25 PM (yxVqi)

109 Iirc, she (matress girl) and her boyfriend did onlyfans, then she had some sort of realization.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 22, 2025 06:25 PM (zZu0s)

110 Here's hoping that the suspension triggers repayment of any student loans they might have incurred. They might have to try for berths on ships hauling EVs to earn enough money to make the payments.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 22, 2025 06:26 PM (S/Y4j)

111 So, is Habba back in? I'm so confused.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Judges voted to replace Habba by Friday with an existing hack in the NJ DA office. That judicial pick to replace Habba (Desiree something) is now fired from the position because Trump has the ultimate say. Not judges and this is a shot across the NJ District Court judges upset that Habba filed charges against that PoC Congress critter from there.

Posted by: whig at July 22, 2025 06:26 PM (ctrM5)

112 He was the smart on.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 22, 2025 06:25 PM (DXW74)

No shit.

Posted by: jsg at July 22, 2025 06:27 PM (1l+t9)

113 How hot is Uranus?

I don't know, but some planet stole my pen!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 22, 2025 06:27 PM (RlmPm)

114
A 2-year absence from the networking scene is a huge punishment. These brats will lose their dorms, their cafeteria passes, library passes, the whole bit. If the suspension includes banning them from the campus itself, they're really cooked. They can skulk around in coffee shops if their parents can afford to keep them in apartments in NYC (!) or they can go home to whatever commie suburb bred them and try to feel hip and relevant.

It's like a puberty blocker. Permanent damage will be done, even once they go off it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 22, 2025 06:27 PM (HL/Ld)

115 Don't kid yourselves about suspension being serious.

My guess is that it might delay their graduation by a year at most since they will take classes at other schools (probably overseas, and probably paid for by others) and transfer credits.

If it was serious, it would be expulsion. "sent down." They are not being sent down, they are being sent laterally and up for appearances.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 22, 2025 06:27 PM (DXW74)

116 Take a look at the graphic that does along with this tweet from the White House. Trump is not playing.

Interesting that he highlighted Crimea.

@WhiteHouse
·
2m
Congratulations, you’ve unlocked: The Deep State Russia Starter Pack

https://tinyurl.com/yzad9svz

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2025 06:28 PM (viF8m)

117 Regarding the take over in Seattle. I forgot! CHOP became CHAZ due to offending chopsticks or something! I kept wondering if Chaz Bono was offended.

I am going to find the writing of a guy who visited, as it was hilarious. There was a chore chart that also sent me.

Here's a youtube:
https://tinyurl.com/3zvca6f3

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 22, 2025 06:29 PM (6PCLE)

118 If there was a hot librarian in the library, I might hold up for one evening for some hot tutoring, but you can't overthrow the Deep State when you're balls-deep in the Dewey Decimal System.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 22, 2025 06:29 PM (/gTjv)

119 Judges voted to replace Habba by Friday with an existing hack in the NJ DA office. That judicial pick to replace Habba (Desiree something) is now fired from the position because Trump has the ultimate say. Not judges and this is a shot across the NJ District Court judges upset that Habba filed charges against that PoC Congress critter from there.
Posted by: whig at July 22, 2025 06:26 PM (ctrM5)

Federal court? Well then, all CONgress has to do is eliminated the NJ District Court, don't they?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 22, 2025 06:30 PM (0eaVi)

120 Thx, JS!

Oh glory if it comes true!

Glory!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2025 06:30 PM (dKEEs)

121 This is the second one.
Because of Senate "blue slips"
Which is going to be killed, Trump is building the case and Thune will have to act.

It's a bullshit rule that only benefits Democrats.

There is no "what if a Democrat becomes President and wants to appoint liberal judges to a red state?!"

They already do and have, so what's the fucking point?

You know what is rarer than a hen's tooth? A conservative judge in a blue state.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Blue slips do not apply to DA nominations, only judges. Habba was nearing the end of her 120 days in office as temporary appointment and her nomination has not yet been approved by the Senate. That is why Trump wants the Senate to stay in session during at least part of August to deal with nominations. Dems are slow rolling every single Trump nominations for everthing which takes up time. That being said, minor nominees are now being considered which they vote on them as a group, not so much as individuals under an expedited and lesser debate required for Cabinet posts or other high ranking judicial nominations.

Posted by: whig at July 22, 2025 06:30 PM (ctrM5)

122 https://www.texaspolicy.com/
public-debt-profiles-by-house-district

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 22, 2025 06:31 PM (vm8sq)

123 I see the New Civil Liberties Alliance (shilled at Insty, IIRC) are exposing themselves as Chamber of Commerce funded.

Pretending they are standing up for small businesses in filing a lawsuit against Trump's tariffs.

No one gives a fuck about sellers at Temu, Ali Baba and Amazon dropshippers.

(I'm especially tired of every damned result at Amazon being the same damned sponsored item from yet another dropshipper.)

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 22, 2025 06:32 PM (yxVqi)

124 107 The Olympics bent the knee to Trump.

No Fake Women in Women's events.

https://tinyurl.com/2ydtd52n
Posted by: jsg at July 22, 2025 06:25 PM (1l+t9)

They should. No Olympics exist without Team USA and U.S. sponsors.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 22, 2025 06:33 PM (vm8sq)

125 Federal court? Well then, all CONgress has to do is eliminated the NJ District Court, don't they?
Posted by: OrangeEnt
=======
Amusing. The federal constitution is silent as to federal districts or even whether those districts have to coincide with state lines. All of that comes from the Federal Judiciary Act of 1789 and its successors.

That being said, the justification for the statute allowing judges to pick DAs is probably unconstitutional under the new unitary executive doctrine that Scotus is pushing. Congress can reject a nominee but nothing says that courts can do that.

Posted by: whig at July 22, 2025 06:33 PM (ctrM5)

126 (I'm especially tired of every damned result at Amazon being the same damned sponsored item from yet another dropshipper.)

at a different price, too ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2025 06:33 PM (dKEEs)

127
I suspect that these 'students' have not spent much time in the library other than occupying it.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 22, 2025 06:34 PM (QwK6F)

128 We be staring at fund to raise money to helps. Presdent Obama dights Trumps lies about he be tried to hurt Trump in the e tr section. We be alls know I w Trump and Puten our good f friends and w as entered to win because he be week con K a tr ed to Hillary Clanton.

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at July 22, 2025 06:35 PM (d3l2y)

129 By the way - invaded a building barricaded themselves in, refused to show ID, attempted to bust out...damaged the building and finishings.

Enjoy your career at Starbucks assholes.

By the way, that is a 2-year suspension - imagine having finished two years of school, then taking two off. My guess is 90% will never return to finish.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 22, 2025 06:20 PM

How long before they start bitching that because they were suspended they should not have to pay back their student loans?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 22, 2025 06:35 PM (e5NfL)

130 That being said, the justification for the statute allowing judges to pick DAs is probably unconstitutional under the new unitary executive doctrine that Scotus is pushing. Congress can reject a nominee but nothing says that courts can do that.
Posted by: whig at July 22, 2025 06:33 PM (ctrM5)

Those rogue judges won't be rogue judges if CONgress would say, "sorry, your court is eliminated, your rulings are null and void."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 22, 2025 06:36 PM (0eaVi)

131 How long before they start bitching that because they were suspended they should not have to pay back their student loans?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 22, 2025 06:35 PM (e5NfL)

The fine print on the loan says they're screwed.

Imagine having any possible paychecks garnished so that they are living on the street. I can dream.

Posted by: RickZ at July 22, 2025 06:37 PM (gKDq2)

132 Interesting that he highlighted Crimea.

@WhiteHouse
·
2m
Congratulations, you’ve unlocked: The Deep State Russia Starter Pack

https://tinyurl.com/yzad9svz

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2025 06:28 PM (viF8m)

---

What's that document with a seal supposed to represent on the bottom right?

A birth certificate?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2025 06:37 PM (6ydKt)

133 I hate to break it to them, but the computer model does not, actually, change the temperature of Uranus.

I'm also wondering why they would think Uranus would be different than the other gas giants in the first place. Any planet with radioactive matter in it generates some internal heat.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 22, 2025 06:14 PM (8avO+)

A few minor tweaks here and there and they can made to say whatever you want, within reason.

Posted by: javems at July 22, 2025 06:38 PM (8I4hW)

134
Don't kid yourselves about suspension being serious.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

==============

It may not be serious in terms of the official educational outcome (they get a diploma in the end, just a year or two later), but don't kid yourself about Columbia being an educational institution.

It's not a place to get your diploma from; it's a place to find your future cohorts, NGO employers, fellow grifters, fellow travelers, future podcasts co-hosts, etc. Losing your momentum and having to start all over with a bunch of snot-noses who know and care nothing about your passion and glory of, like, 2 whole years ago dude, is a big setback.

Probably your best chance is to hook up with your fellow suspendees returned, if you know who they are.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 22, 2025 06:38 PM (HL/Ld)

135 Those rogue judges won't be rogue judges if CONgress would say, "sorry, your court is eliminated, your rulings are null and void."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 22, 2025 06:36 PM (0eaVi)
---
But isn't that the end of democracy?

Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2025 06:38 PM (krQz2)

136 Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 22, 2025 06:34 PM (QwK6F

This is actually true for many schools now. Kids don't take out books, and they use libraries as simply study centers and places to copy things.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2025 06:39 PM (2GCMq)

137 Those rogue judges won't be rogue judges if CONgress would say, "sorry, your court is eliminated, your rulings are null and void."
Posted by: OrangeEnt
========
The very old Stuart v. Laird case (1802) suggests that you could be correct. Jefferson's party in Congress got rid of the additional federal judge positions authorized in the Judiciary Act of 1800 and replaced that with the Judiciary Act of 1801 that removed the positions. Lawsuit ensued, Marshall court ruled that Congress could do that.

Coincidentally, that removal led to Marbury's lawsuit as well as some of the positions were Justice of the Peace offices in DC.

Posted by: whig at July 22, 2025 06:39 PM (ctrM5)

138 What's that document with a seal supposed to represent on the bottom right?

A birth certificate?
Posted by: SpeakingOf
======
Maybe, Trump was one of the people to bring that up.

Posted by: whig at July 22, 2025 06:40 PM (ctrM5)

139 >>What's that document with a seal supposed to represent on the bottom right?

>>A birth certificate

Not sure.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2025 06:40 PM (viF8m)

140 Nah. This was 2025.

Posted by: Pj at July 22, 2025 06:41 PM (DyvBy)

141 This is actually true for many schools now. Kids don't take out books, and they use libraries as simply study centers and places to copy things.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2025 06:39 PM (2GCMq)
----
Yep. The library in which I work (but do not work for) has eliminated about 2/3 of the books it used to hold at its peak.

Most of the space has been turned into individual or collaborative study spaces for students. Lots of computers and places for laptops as well as whiteboards all over the place.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2025 06:42 PM (IBQGV)

142 Columbia is trying to live down to how it was depicted in the first Ghostbusters.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 22, 2025 06:43 PM (84SEz)

143 Don't kid yourselves about suspension being serious.

Posted by: bob

Pretty damn serious. Suspensions go on a student's permanent transcript and trying to lie about a two year absence from campus gets awkward in explaining. Matters for the jobs in corporate world, law and grad school admissions, etc.

Won't matter in activist circles but due to declining government grants, etc. those positions may be less available in two years or more time.

Posted by: whig at July 22, 2025 06:43 PM (ctrM5)

144 I guess it could just represent hidden official documents or something similar, but I'm going with birth certificate just because Trump would do something like that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2025 06:43 PM (6ydKt)

145 So are they going to put up a statue of Ozzy at the Alamo now, or what?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2025 06:44 PM (6ydKt)

146 Yep. The library in which I work (but do not work for) has eliminated about 2/3 of the books it used to hold at its peak.

Most of the space has been turned into individual or collaborative study spaces for students. Lots of computers and places for laptops as well as whiteboards all over the place.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Collections have been gutted in academic libraries, lots of books sold, removed to repositories off site, and vanished toward the end of my stint as professor. And our library ended up getting rid of professor study carrels to make more room for students to socialize and study.

Carrels made it easier to keep books at the library for research projects instead of lugging them back and forth to office and home.

Posted by: whig at July 22, 2025 06:45 PM (ctrM5)

147 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2025 06:42 PM (IBQGV)

Yes, the librarian where my son went to school was lamenting this same sort of thing. He thinks it's the beginning of the end for school libraries. That's why he was happy that my son took out books and chatted with him about them. He's probably going to retire in about a year but it's a heartbreaking thing after 3O years of doing this

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2025 06:45 PM (2GCMq)

148 > 145 So are they going to put up a statue of Ozzy at the Alamo now, or what?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 22, 2025 06:44 PM (6ydKt)

Maybe something in the classic European "Manneken Pis" style?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 22, 2025 06:46 PM (qpyNK)

149 107 The Olympics bent the knee to Trump.

No Fake Women in Women's events.

https://tinyurl.com/2ydtd52n
Posted by: jsg at July 22, 2025 06:25 PM (1l+t9)

They should. No Olympics exist without Team USA and U.S. sponsors.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 22, 2025 06:33 PM (vm8sq)

The USA has twice as many medals as the second place Soviet Union/Russia.

Posted by: polynikes at July 22, 2025 06:47 PM (VofaG)

150 DNI Gabbard on Obama's response: https://tinyurl.com/bddcuxwn

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 22, 2025 06:47 PM (tT6L1)

151 I hear women lamenting.

Posted by: El Borak at July 22, 2025 06:47 PM (+pzIB)

152 Way too little too late of a response. Hope Trump gives them the Harvard treatment. Without lube.

I visited Columbia once, to see where ghostbusters was filmed and see if I wanted to maybe do grad school there. I never met a larger bunch of pretentious aholes in one department. I quickly realized the culture and climate of the place would be an impossible fit for me.

I'm sure all the Jewish donors and their families love that Jewish students were banned from the public buildings they pay tuition for.

Posted by: LizLem at July 22, 2025 06:47 PM (WFRZl)

153 Losing your momentum and having to start all over with a bunch of snot-noses who know and care nothing about your passion and glory of, like, 2 whole years ago dude, is a big setback.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

---
I disagree, drawing different conclusions from the same facts.

I took a gap year (to work to pay for school) and it was a huge setback. But I had a serious program and missing a year made me lose continuity of core classes as well as my contacts and friends.

For these kids they will return and be campus "leaders." They will get special treatment from profs and make even more contacts. And losing momentum is meaningless when they are learning shit that is all made up nonsense and it changes every year anyway.

A lot of these useless people brag about how their year in the Peace Corps or on an indian reservation was the best learning experience they every had. These kids just get that earlier.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 22, 2025 06:47 PM (DXW74)

154 Posted by: whig at July 22, 2025 06:45 PM (ctrM5)

They redid the library with individual carrels which made it easier for the students but they also modernized it inside with - in his opinion - awful furniture and carpets, not in keeping with the style and age of the library building and what made it worse was they didn't event consult with the librarians there .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2025 06:50 PM (2GCMq)

155 145 Time for another verse:
Music never riled us
The groupies or the jets
The show on television
Or the ratings you might get

The thing that drove us plum insane
Was when you drained that old main vain
Took your snake and let it go
No, we won't forget the Alamo

The eyes of Texas are upon you

Don't go there, don't go there
You really shouldn't go there
It's a symbol of our state
Not a place to urinate

Don't go there, don't go there
You really shouldn't go there
You'll really piss us off if you go there

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 22, 2025 06:50 PM (vd6bO)

156 But isn't that the end of democracy?
Posted by: Axeman at July 22, 2025 06:38 PM (krQz2)

Not if they do it in the light.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 22, 2025 06:51 PM (0eaVi)

157 Collections have been gutted in academic libraries, lots of books sold, removed to repositories off site, and vanished toward the end of my stint as professor. And our library ended up getting rid of professor study carrels to make more room for students to socialize and study.

Carrels made it easier to keep books at the library for research projects instead of lugging them back and forth to office and home.
Posted by: whig at July 22, 2025 06:45 PM (ctrM5)
---
A lot of the materials are now digitized and available online. Or the journals are simply so obsolete that they no longer matter. Who cares about engineering journals from 40 or 50 years ago? (Even though they might be helpful in rebuilding civilization should things get that bad...)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2025 06:51 PM (IBQGV)

158 148 - we can only hope

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 22, 2025 06:52 PM (dKEEs)

159
This is actually true for many schools now. Kids don't take out books, and they use libraries as simply study centers and places to copy things.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 22, 2025 06:39 PM (2GCMq)

Lavoisier Library at the DuPont Experimental Station eliminated a substantial portion of their book and journal collections back in the early 2010s. I have no idea for what purpose that space is now being used.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 22, 2025 06:53 PM (xG4kz)

160 Coincidentally, that removal led to Marbury's lawsuit as well as some of the positions were Justice of the Peace offices in DC.
Posted by: whig at July 22, 2025 06:39 PM (ctrM5)

Yes, but we know it's a mute, er moo, er moot point because CONgress will never do it. No matter how justified.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 22, 2025 06:53 PM (0eaVi)

161 Most of the space has been turned into individual or collaborative study spaces for students. Lots of computers and places for laptops as well as whiteboards all over the place.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2025 06:42 PM (IBQGV)

Whiteboards? You work in a very racist place, Perfessor.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 22, 2025 06:54 PM (0eaVi)

162 Won't matter in activist circles but due to declining government grants, etc. those positions may be less available in two years or more time.
Posted by: whig

From your grey box to Trump's ears.

I really hope you and Blondi are right.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 22, 2025 06:54 PM (DXW74)

163 So, how hot is Uranus?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 22, 2025 06:21 PM (97NWC)

98.6 F, coincidentally.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 22, 2025 06:22 PM (i24o9)
--------
It's alive!

Posted by: Processor Frankensteen at July 22, 2025 06:55 PM (iJ2Uh)

164 And our library ended up getting rid of professor study carrels to make more room for students to socialize and study.

Carrels made it easier to keep books at the library for research projects instead of lugging them back and forth to office and home.
Posted by: whig at July 22, 2025 06:45 PM (ctrM5)

At one school, grad students had keys for carrels, and for the same reason.

I used them when available because they were quiet and you could kind of spread out the books/materials while you worked; this was B.C., before computers.

Posted by: RickZ at July 22, 2025 06:55 PM (gKDq2)

165 Robot and Frank is an utterly delightful sci-fi indie film, highly recommend. Old man uses his robot companion to do a heist of the library to get an old copy of Don Quixote. They are scrapping libraries in the future to make it a community center.

I hoped that its prediction of libraries was a ridiculous premise! But here we are.

Our local library tries to have all these teen spaces and they just go to the library to game on the computers, it seems like. Meanwhile, libraries are canceling digital book check out apps like hoopla because it's too expensive.

Their whole purpose, to provide book access, and they are cancelling hoopla. (To be fair, the hoopla business platform is nutso and I get why it's unaffordable. I hate how expensive digital books are. They shouldn't be.)

Posted by: LizLem at July 22, 2025 06:56 PM (lXLqZ)

166 Most of the space has been turned into individual or collaborative study spaces for students. Lots of computers and places for laptops as well as whiteboards all over the place.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2025 06:42 PM (IBQGV)

Whiteboards? You work in a very racist place, Perfessor.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 22, 2025 06:54 PM (0eaVi)
---
Whoa! Hey now! We have diversity!

The physicists all insist on using blackboards!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2025 06:56 PM (IBQGV)

167 150 DNI Gabbard on Obama's response: https://tinyurl.com/bddcuxwn
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 22, 2025 06:47 PM (tT6L1)

Burn it down.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the Earth where it stood.

Posted by: jsg at July 22, 2025 06:57 PM (1l+t9)

168 Whoa! Hey now! We have diversity!

The physicists all insist on using blackboards!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2025 06:56 PM (IBQGV)

Are you inclusioning green boards? Hmmm?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 22, 2025 06:58 PM (0eaVi)

169 Whoa! Hey now! We have diversity!

The physicists all insist on using blackboards!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2025 06:56 PM (IBQGV)

Are you inclusioning green boards? Hmmm?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 22, 2025 06:58 PM (0eaVi)
---
Those are for the Civil Engineers.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2025 06:58 PM (IBQGV)

170 Those are for the Civil Engineers.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2025 06:58 PM (IBQGV)

In my school life (from K-College) I've gone from green boards, to brown boards to blackboards, then white boards. How the heck many are there?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 22, 2025 07:00 PM (0eaVi)

171 Anyone know what happened to Trump ending the international postal agreement that China has been using to flood the country with crap?

I thought he was going to end that.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 22, 2025 07:03 PM (DXW74)

172 Whoa! Hey now! We have diversity!

The physicists all insist on using blackboards!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2025 06:56 PM (IBQGV)

Are you inclusioning green boards? Hmmm?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 22, 2025 06:58 PM (0eaVi)
---
Those are for the Civil Engineers.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 22, 2025 06:58 PM (IBQGV)
---------
White boards are for experts. Harvard boys.

Posted by: Processor Frankensteen at July 22, 2025 07:03 PM (HD3Ny)

173
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at July 22, 2025 06:47 PM (DXW74)

=============

Go back to what I said. The loss has nothing to do with education. The momentum they will lose is social and political, not educational. The activist teachers will have a whole new promising group of young snot-noses to work with. It has nothing to do with learning.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 22, 2025 07:25 PM (HL/Ld)

174 "disagree, drawing different conclusions from the same facts."

Hard to disagree with that perspective. My own experience warns me that those two years will be filled with tempting alternatives that will remove them from the paths that lead back to University. I wish I had the patience to track what percentage make it back in two years.

Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 22, 2025 08:35 PM (ciYHQ)

Processing 0.03, elapsed 0.0333 seconds.
15 queries taking 0.0095 seconds, 183 records returned.
Page size 104 kb.
Powered by Minx 0.8 beta.