What Next - Columbia Cracks Down
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Professor Joe Howley has been working with student protesters for almost a year. When they occupied his building, he got texts from the kids—and nothing from the administration. Now that Columbia’s called the cops, and nearly 100 demonstrators have been arrested, what does that mean for the future of the institution—and for free speech on campus nationwide?
Guest: Joe Howley, associate professor in the Columbia University Classics Department
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| 1:15.0 | How are you doing? |
| 1:19.0 | How are you doing? |
| 1:20.0 | Tell me about your last 24 hours. I mean I'm exhausted. I got about six hours of sleep. I just came from trying to squeeze in my department senior thesis presentations and I'm serious I mean I'm I'm absolutely |
| 1:35.6 | furious. This is Joe Howley he's a professor at Columbia University |
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