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Today, Explained

Columbia’s free-speech fight

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Daily Spectator news editor Sarah Huddleston reports on the protests at her university. AAUP President Irene Mulvey explains the stakes for campus free speech. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh and Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Anouck Dussaud, engineered by David Herman, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! vox.com/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The school year is winding down, but the protests are heating up.

0:04.0

There's the encampment at Columbia.

0:07.0

Up, up, the liberation.

0:09.0

Then there were the arrests at Columbia.

0:13.0

That was the case.

0:15.0

And that only made things messier at Columbia.

0:20.0

Demonstrations continue on university campuses, New York's Columbia University

0:25.2

announcing all classes will be held virtually today.

0:29.3

University President Manouchefique issuing a statement saying, we need a reset to de-escalate the rancor.

0:35.2

And campuses across the country notice.

0:38.0

Clashes and arrests from the streets of New York to the University of Minnesota to Cal Poly

0:42.4

Humboldt.

0:43.0

We're going to try and figure out

0:50.0

we're going to try and figure out what the latest campus clashes tell us about the state of free speech at American universities on today explained. Support for this show comes from Krakan.

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