Campus Protests at CUNY and Columbia
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Activists at Columbia occupied a building overnight as administrators threatened to start suspending students. Joseph Howley, associate professor of classics at Columbia University, talks about how he and other faculty are supporting protesters at Columbia and Hadeeqa Arzoo, vice president of CCNY’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter and organizer at the CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment, shares what activists at the City College of New York are demanding.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Laire show on WNYC. Good morning everyone and you were just listening to |
| 0:16.2 | Nulma McGovern on the BBC there, right? Hosting today from the WNYC studios. |
| 0:21.5 | Nula will be on with us live on this show in the 11 o'clock hour to talk about |
| 0:26.3 | her reporting and hosting trip from London to New York. You heard that she was interviewing |
| 0:31.8 | people about congestion pricing at the end there. |
| 0:34.1 | We will definitely compare notes on congestion pricing. |
| 0:37.7 | London has had it for 21 years now. |
| 0:40.7 | We'll also talk about immigration policy and more. |
| 0:44.0 | And maybe a little reminiscing because Nula was the lead producer of this show |
| 0:48.9 | from 2001 to 2009 before going to London and becoming a global BBC anchor there. |
| 0:56.1 | That's coming up next hour but we'll start here. You've been hearing in the news |
| 1:01.2 | about the many campus protests, of course, taking place around the country right now, |
| 1:06.0 | calling, depending on the campus for a ceasefire in Gaza, |
| 1:11.0 | divestment from businesses or academic pursuits connected to Israel or the Israeli military, |
| 1:17.0 | transparency in university finances to assess those ties, and sometimes other things, things again there are differences at |
| 1:23.7 | different schools and you've been hearing about the latest of |
| 1:26.6 | elements at Columbia specifically the 2 p.m. deadline yesterday for |
| 1:31.1 | students to leave the encampment on the school's main lawn or be suspended, |
| 1:35.8 | and then overnight a smaller group of students breaking into and occupying one of the academic |
| 1:40.4 | buildings, Hamilton Hall. |
| 1:42.7 | On this show, we've been continuing to try in good faith |
| 1:45.9 | to get multiple points of view on the protests, |
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