The mass protests escalated dramatically across the country after students set up a tent encampment at Columbia University in New York on Wednesday 17 April, demanding the school divest from companies they claim "profit from Israeli apartheid". It was a strategy a small group of pro-Palestinian ...
Yet police have been called in to suppress nonviolent encampments on such campuses as USC, New York University, the University of Virginia, the University of Texas and Columbia University, with more than2,600 arrests nationally. While in the 1960s it usually took the takeover of university buil...
“It’s like taking a bulldozer to knock down the wrong building,” said Suzanne Goldberg, a professor at Columbia University Law School and an expert on gender and sexuality law, adding that the policy distracts from the serious problem of girls and women not having equal opportunities in sp...
NY1’s political anchor Errol Louis is releasing a special episode of his podcast“You Decide” today that includes an interview with documentary filmmaker Lizzie Gottlieb, the daughter of Caro editor Robert Gottlieb as well as Columbia University history professor Kenneth T. Jackson. ...
A yellow Honda used as one of the getaway cars, for example, was recovered and found to have been registered to Eve S. Rosahn, who was a Barnard College student in the late 1960's and was arrested in radical demonstrations at Columbia University then and more recently at a New York Ci...
An excellent summary of the case is here. Dr. Steven Chase Brigham Not An Actual OB/GYN Steven Brigham Chase received his MD from Columbia University, but never trained as a gynecologist during his schooling. He was never board-certified for obstetrics/gynecology. Nevertheless, in the late ...
Even more disturbing, Lobell and his collaborator Wolfram Schlenker, an economist at Columbia University, have found evidence that in the case of several important crops, the negative effect of global warming is more strongly tied to the number of extremely hot days than to the rise in average ...
Camus’ equivocating role during the Algerian War has never stopped igniting controversy. Columbia University historian Edward Said, inCulture and Imperialism, berated Camus for having an “incapacitated colonial sensibility.” Particularly damning for Camus’ critics is the absence of developed...
Why breakup songs caught on is less of a mystery, experts said. “Breakups certainly inspire a rich broth of emotions,” saidArianna Galligher, a licensed clinical social worker and director of theStress, Trauma and Resilience programat The Ohio State University Wexner...
Columbia Santana, "Black Magic Woman" (1970) Carlos Santana’s sinewy riff gets all the notice, but Gregg Rolie’s darkly mysterious keyboard signature, not to mention his raw and emotional vocal, is what whisks this old Fleetwood Mac song to an entirely new place. Manfred Mann, "Blinded ...