Why Colleges Have No Idea How To Handle Student Protests

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss the pro Palestinian protests on the campus of Columbia University and the poor response by the administration, including sending in the NYPD to arrest people. They shift to the impending House bill brought forth by speaker Mike Johnson and how it could lead to the end of his reign, before talking about the Comstock Act and what it means to protecting abortion rights.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody.
0:01.5	Welcome to the McCrack podcast.
0:02.8	I'm Jared D.
0:03.3	Sackston.
0:03.7	I'm here with my good partner and friend Nick Houseman. Happy Passover, Macra. Well, thank you, Jared. I appreciate it. I'm in the midst of making a beautiful brisket. And the wafting smell is already intoxicating. That's lovely. I wish I was out in Los Angeles. Is it warmer? No. it is not acceptable what's going on out here.
0:22.2	It's not acceptable.
0:23.7	Well, you know what? out in Los Angeles. Is it warmer? No. It is not acceptable. What's going on out here. It's not
0:22.9	acceptable. Well, you know what, Nick? Luckily, we have a show that is filled with happiness today.
0:30.1	Just kidding. We have a lot of controversies and big events that we have to get into. A reminder, go over to
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0:41.0	Also keep us ad-free, editorially independent, and growing.
0:44.1	And we thank everybody who's supporting the show.
0:46.4	Nick, we got a growing situation within the United States of America.
0:51.4	It looks a lot like past histories in a lot of different ways, it has new wrinkles and new schisms that we need to get into and
1:00.2	really, really get our hands dirty with. Students at Columbia have organized what they are
1:05.0	calling the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. This last Wednesday, President Nemat Sheffik
1:10.6	brought in the NYPD, arrested 108 of them.
1:15.1	Since then, classes have been either canceled or moved online. There's been massive walkouts,
1:20.6	a huge, huge political war that's taken place there. Since similar encampments have grown now at Yale where riot police were brought
1:30.2	in SWAT team members were brought in to arrest more members of the the Yale protest movement.
1:35.4	It's happened at MIT and Emerson.
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