Oh, the Places They’ll Go — But Not Commencement
Columbia University will not have a commencement ceremony for graduates (“‘Cowardice’ commences,” May 7).
Supposedly smaller venues are scheduled, but it looks like its president Minouche Shafik has given in to protesters.
Many graduates were looking forward to a true graduation ceremony, but Columbia is surrendering to protesters’ disruptions. This makes it more evident that Shafik should resign because of the mishandling of the protests.
Other universities around the country did exactly the opposite by removing protesters and their camps, plus expelling some student protesters and having them arrested.
About time to give back college campuses to young people who want to learn, not disrupt.
Joseph Comperchio
Brooklyn
I don’t get it. Parents save or take on debt to help put their kids through college. This can amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars and lots of sacrifice. At the end is a graduation ceremony
with a college degree. (Though many of those degrees, we know, won’t help you earn more than the minimum wage today.)
Graduation is a high point for students as well as parents. Now the cowards at Columbia have decided not to have a graduation ceremony.
Ron Heimer
Yuma, Ariz.
Much like Dr. Frankenstein, Ivy League administrators are now experiencing the horrors of their creation. For years, these so-called educators have been indoctrinating
students rather than teaching them. This has led to what we have been seeing over the last six months: a swath of students swayed by professional agitators because they can’t think for themselves.
Peter W. Kelly
Hazlet, NJ
Graduation ceremonies are meant to affirm a monumental milestone in an individual’s life. It’s unbelievable that acts against humanity in another part of the world could have such a profound effect domestically.
Wayne E. Williams Camden, NJ