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...Columbia University students were arrested December 2 in the school’s Ruggles Hall for allegedly committing a hate crime in which they drew graffiti of swastikas, racial epithets, and homophobic symbols on the walls of a suite. Sophomore Stephen Searles told police that he and junior Matthew Brown used red and purple markers to deface the walls of a Ruggles suite, according to reports in the Columbia Spectator and in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Searles attended high school in Bozeman, Mont. “We were drunk and we wrote anti-Semitic graffiti on the walls...
...rising to prominence once again on Manhattan’s Upper West Side? As strange as this sounds, the rhetoric surrounding a disturbing but overblown racially-charged vandalism incident at Columbia might lead one to think...
...important to reflect on this misdeed, not because it exposes a “pattern of ignorance” or “atmosphere of racial tension” as many at Columbia are quick to allege, but because it demonstrates a broad and dangerous pattern of students at diverse liberal universities resorting to histrionics in the face of small, isolated occurrences...
University President Lee Bollinger went as far as to say that “the entire Columbia community is injured when any of its members are made, unjustly to feel vulnerable.” One student even told the Columbia Spectator that the whole thing made her afraid to go to class. Yet, the contention that anyone was made to feel vulnerable when the perpetrators were so scared by what they had done that they immediately tried to cover it up is ridiculous...
...people really stepped up and the team comes together,” Pangilinan said. “It was really hard not to be there.” Pangilinan’s only swim with the team came in the Crimson’s meet against Columbia almost a month ago. She swam the second leg of the winning 400-yard medley relay, took second in the 200-yard individual medley, and won her signature event, the 200-yard breaststroke. “We were all excited for her to go to the Southeast Asian Games,” Davidson...