Protests Swell on College Campuses
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Kate Hidalgo Bellows, staff reporter covering campus health and safety at The Chronicle, reports on how administrations at colleges here in New York and across the country are struggling to respond to ongoing, and growing protests over the Israel-Hamas War.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Air Show on WNYC. |
| 0:13.3 | Good morning everyone. |
| 0:14.7 | So here's how polarized the political situation |
| 0:18.8 | surrounding Columbia University is right now. |
| 0:22.0 | People on both sides of that polarization are calling on |
| 0:25.3 | Columbia's president Minnieur Shefique to resign and people on both sides are |
| 0:30.8 | suing the school. Pro-Palestinian students rallying on campus yesterday |
| 0:35.2 | chanted, resign, resign, resign over Shefeiks' decision |
| 0:38.6 | to call in the NYPD last Thursday, |
| 0:41.4 | which resulted in around 100 students arrested and many of those students |
| 0:45.2 | suspended. |
| 0:46.2 | But also yesterday, 10 Republican members of Congress from New York wrote a letter to |
| 0:51.8 | Shefique calling on her to resign, in part because she didn't call in |
| 0:56.2 | the NYPD until Thursday rather than earlier in the week. |
| 1:01.0 | Shefique had been called to testify before a Republican-led congressional committee last |
| 1:06.0 | Wednesday and she said in part this. |
| 1:09.0 | Columbia strives to be a community free of discrimination and hate in all its forms and we condemn |
| 1:16.5 | the anti-Semitism that is so pervasive today. |
| 1:20.0 | Asked what she was doing about that anti-Semitism. |
| 1:23.3 | Shefic described some steps the university is taking. |
| 1:27.6 | Our actions included support for students, enhanced reporting channels for incidents, hiring additional staff to investigate complaints, |
| 1:35.4 | developing new policies on demonstrations, |
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