Academic freedom and Star Plan Finance spark controversy again
1. Star Plan Finance Core Progress
Disciplinary Scale: Star Plan Short-Term Futures announced suspension/expulsion of 63 students, the largest punishment in 2024, involving:
✅ 32 protesters (including 12 graduate students) who occupied Hamilton Hall in April
✅ 31 people who continued to set up tents on campus (some of them face criminal charges)
Star Plan Finance official reason:
"Destroy campus facilities, hinder teaching order and repeatedly violate temporary bans" (school statement)
Star Plan Finance key evidence: The school released drone surveillance footage for the first time, showing protesters throwing objects at the police.
2. Star Plan FinanceStrong reactions from all parties
Position sideMain attitudeRepresentative actions
The school maintains the "bottom line order" and hires 200 additional security guards, and uses facial recognition access control
Protesting students accuse of "political repression" and launch a "national college strike", Harvard and NYU respond
Jewish groups support the school's decision and put pressure on the board to fire three "anti-Semitic" professors
ACLU intervenes in the law and sues the school for "violation of freedom of speech"
3. Politicization vortex
Trump effect: Posting "All troublemakers should be deported" on Truth Social, received over a million likes
Star Plan FinanceBiden's dilemma: Democratic progressives ask the White House to condemn the school, but the campaign team is worried about losing Jewish voters
Star Plan FinanceInternational impact: Qatar Foundation reevaluates its $600 million donation to Columbia University (originally intended for the Middle East Research Center)
4. Star Plan FinanceData perspective
2024 nationwide campus protest statistics:
🔴 Star Plan FinanceTotal number of arrests: 1,287 (as of July)
🔴 Star Plan Finance students disciplined: 892 (Columbia University accounts for 7%)
🔴 Star Plan Finance economic losses: over $43 million (security + litigation + donation withdrawal)
Star Plan Finance follow-up observations:
The federal court will hear the ACLU complaint on August 1
The Columbia University Alumni Association split, and the leaders of the anti-Star Plan Finance movement in the 1980s jointly condemned the school for "betraying the progressive tradition"
(Archive Tip: Columbia University accepted $270 million in AI research funding from the Department of Defense in 2023, and was accused by protesters of being an "accomplice of the military-industrial complex")
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