Columbia Protesters Cry Foul at Threat of Discipline

Posted on: October 10th, 2006
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“The protesters who rushed the stage at Columbia University Wednesday night when the founder of a volunteer border-patrol group tried to speak are crying foul, asserting that they were the victims of the violence and that they should not be disciplined by the university.

After the students climbed onstage, overturning tables and chairs and causing mayhem, President Lee Bollinger called the students’ disruption of the event “one of the most serious breaches of academic faith that can occur at a university.”"

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