cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27192542
By Syma Mohammed Published date: 14 March 2025 19:58 GMT
"Columbia University leadership made a series of concessions to the Trump administration on Thursday following an extraordinary letter that listed nine demands it expected the university to make if it did not want its federal funding to be pulled.
On Thursday, the university announced it was expelling, suspending and revoking the degrees of 22 students following last year’s Hamilton Hall protest, fulfilling one of the nine demands issued in a letter from the Trump administration to Columbia."
All 22 of these students should receive honorary degrees from universities abroad and from every US university that isn’t full of cowards.
All 22 of these students should get their money back
More like a multi-million dollar level compensation for each for loss of fees, their time wasted (at university and which they can never get back), the opportunities they lost (if they were studying they weren’t pursuing other opportunities) and any and all emotional damage from the ordeal.
(And I wouldn’t at all be surprised if a good lawyer gets them exactly that)