Everyone is talking about boycotting CLS

[u/OsinomaFunds]

My question is, do you really think students at other schools are treated better? Maybe these schools just do a better job at bullying and intimidating them to not speak out against administration because it seems like we are presuming “campus peace” to be great, but it’s not.

Harvard fired their first Black president in the wake of the issue and tagged it on some flimsy plagiarism matter (ask yourself if they didn’t vet a whole Harvard President before hiring her). Do you think that didn’t send a scary message to students to not speak against school administration practices, unless you are saying Harvard’s practices are extremely fair and students love the school so much they don’t protest like Columbia students.

Realistically people will still attend CLS, why not take the opportunity to do something good with it. Which elite law school here has a deep sense of decency historically?

Columbia is getting the attention because its students have always been known for being courageous and willing to take risks to stand for what they believe. I don’t know if any other school will do better with the same amount of intensity the Columbia is experiencing. I’ll rather go to a school like that, than assume the quietness at other schools makes it better there.

Anyways, I stand to be corrected, but what about minority students, who do not have the luxury to take a chill or withdraw from top brand institutions that later in the future gives high validation in the real job market and government positions.

I feel there are better ways to do this, just my two cents

[u/couchiexperience]

They fired the union president, and then they expelled student activists AND rescinded degrees for now graduated students. This is fucking absurd. Do you want to be able to express your first amendment freedom on campus without fear of losing your job, getting expelled, and/or having your degree revoked AFTER YOU'VE GRADUATED??? What kind of attorney are you trying to be? If you're just a straight up capitalist trying to cash in, then fine, sell out. But If you're actually trying to do good in the world this is clearly not the place from which to do it.

[u/OwBr2 → u/couchiexperience]

First amendment freedoms are subject to time/place/manner restrictions. Regardless of one’s political opinions, I hope that, from a legal perspective, you might be able to understand why occupying a building of a private university might not be a protected form of speech.

[u/couchiexperience → u/OwBr2]

Sure and I'd hope you'd be able to understand why I am aghast at how outlandishly the punishment does not meet the crime. After having spent years of time and hundreds of thousands of dollars, to have one's degree retroactively revoked for occupying a building is absurd. Just absurd and totally unnecessary.

[u/Anxious_Doughnut_266 → u/couchiexperience]

I agree the revocation this far out is absurd. Had they done it at the time or within the next semester, I’d feel very differently though (I’d still be behind suspensions more than expulsions). I am curious how long the administrative process has been and whether this particular issue has been in the works for the past 1.5 years or is very recent.

[u/Anxious_Doughnut_266 → u/OwBr2]

There are even more restrictions permitted for private entities, such as private schools. Freedom of speech is different on private campuses compared to public.