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Columbia University locks out grannies to avoid policing the baddies

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Columbia University has restricted access to College Walk in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights neighborhood following protests on its campus. The university closed this public thoroughfare between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, inconveniencing local residents, especially elderly and disabled individuals who now must take a longer route around the campus. Critics argue that Columbia is avoiding responsibility for managing unrest on its property by imposing restrictions on the surrounding community instead of enforcing order internally.

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Columbia University locked down parts of its Morningside Heights campus in New York City, restricting access to local residents including seniors. This move came after protests and an encampment where students allied with outside agitators occupied university buildings. The university called in the NYPD to restore order during these disturbances, which some view as a failure by Columbia's leadership to handle the situation effectively internally.

The campus closure also impacted College Walk, a stretch of 116th Street that has been publicly accessible since at least 1953. This decision forced nearby residents to take longer detours, particularly inconveniencing elderly and disabled individuals who need easier access to essential services near the university.

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Columbia University’s “leaders’ will do anything to avoid looking like bad guys. asserted

leaders → do → guys

Instead of firmly squashing pro-Hamas riots like the criminal actions they are, these wimps have locked down the urban campus, inconveniencing an entire neighborhood and probably breaking the law. asserted

wimps → squash → law

The lockout followed the mayhem of the Columbia protests and encampment, when pampered undergrads linked arms with an anarchistic mob of professional agitators to take over the school’s Morningside campus. asserted

undergrads → follow → campus

When Columbia finally had enough of impotently dithering over these spoiled brats — remember when they demanded to have meal-plan meals delivered to the occupiers of Hamilton Hall, lest they “die of dehydration and starvation”? — it called in the NYPD to restore order. asserted

it → have → order

And it closed College Walk — the stretch of 116th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue open to pedestrians at least since 1953, when the city sold it to Columbia with an easement guaranteeing public access. asserted

city → close → access

For over two years now, that has forced locals to go six blocks out of their way to get around the campus, a nuisance to all and a major imposition on the elderly and disabled. asserted

that → force → elderly

Columbia is stamping its feet, claiming a right to insulate itself for the sake of campus quiet. asserted

Columbia → stamp → quiet

But all it’s doing is pushing chaos its own faculty and student groups cultivated onto the sidewalks outside its gates, imposing crowds and mayhem on the same neighborhood Columbia is already putting out by blocking a common thoroughfare. asserted

Columbia → do → thoroughfare

The school says it has total discretion to close itself off, and that it offers locals a QR-code they can use — with state ID — to access College Walk. asserted

they → say → Walk

But even if its actions were legal, the university is violating the spirit of its social contract with a community that it’s gradually gobbling up block by block. asserted

it → violate → block

If outside agitators start causing trouble — trespass them. asserted

agitators → start → them

If students set up tents or barricades — tear them down before they get comfy. asserted

they → set → them

If 40-year-old Algerian sophomores like Mahmoud Khalil announce that they’re willing to “negotiate” the terms of Columbia’s surrender — expel them. asserted

they → announce → them

Don’t fear a mob of whiners and clowns just because they wrap kitchen towels around their faces and LARP as airplane hijackers. asserted

they → fear → hijackers

If you want to demonstrate ownership of your campus, try maintaining order — instead of locking out seniors who need to get to the grocery store or the downtown IRT. asserted

who → want → store

Columbia University locks out grannies to avoid policing the baddies

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