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10 May 2024, 4:30 am
And they worried that it would foment civil conflict and violence. [read post]
8 May 2024, 9:05 pm
But universities also pursue social policy goals and engage in political activism — what former President Bollinger called the university’s “Fourth Purpose” — over which faculty may hold diverging opinions. [read post]
8 May 2024, 2:00 pm
There's a lot about this Ninth Circuit opinion that's not surprising at all.It's a lawsuit brought by some gun owners in California who don't like that the Legislature recently passed a law that says that identifying information about who has a concealed carry permit or who buys various ammunition -- which is already collected by the state and disseminated to a plethora of law enforcement officials -- also gets to be used (though kept confidential) by specific academic… [read post]
8 May 2024, 1:44 pm
The Center is a state institution the legislature created to do research on firearm violence, in order to inform policy and assist the legislature in enacting appropriate legislation. [read post]
7 May 2024, 7:12 am
Scott Bomboy is the editor in chief of the National Constitution Center. [read post]
6 May 2024, 6:45 am
During his tenure, Bollinger oversaw the rise of a substantial administrative apparatus—the ten highest paid Columbia employees, apart from surgeons, are now all senior executives—as well as the creation of a dizzying array of research centers, policy institutes, and global programs that operate more or less independently of the academic departments. [read post]
5 May 2024, 6:44 pm
Pix credit here The Hong Kong National Security law has attracted a substantial amount of attention outside of HR-SAR (eg here, here), and generated the start of what is likely to be a lively judicial debate (eg here). [read post]
5 May 2024, 4:33 am
The violence prompted criticism over the university’s handling of the protests. [read post]
4 May 2024, 11:48 am
Anarchism speaks to order without a center. [read post]
4 May 2024, 4:00 am
READ MORE Data Centers Are ‘Electricity Hogs’ Making States Reconsider By 2030, data centers will need 35 gigawatts of electricity, which is enough to power more than 26 million average homes. [read post]
4 May 2024, 4:00 am
READ MORE Data Centers Are ‘Electricity Hogs’ Making States Reconsider By 2030, data centers will need 35 gigawatts of electricity, which is enough to power more than 26 million average homes. [read post]
4 May 2024, 3:00 am
The violence prompted criticism over the university’s handling of the protests. [read post]
3 May 2024, 11:00 am
Short pieces: Explainer: UNHCR's Emergency Transit Mechanism Centre in Rwanda (UNHCR, April 2024) [text] "Ghana accused of expelling Fulani asylum seekers from Burkina Faso," The New Humanitarian, 18 April 2024 [text] Statement by principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Crushing levels of violence, displacement fuel unprecedented civilian suffering (IASC, April 2024) [text] Reports: Baobab… [read post]
3 May 2024, 3:00 am
The complaint centers on a company called Red Curve Solutions, which allegedly received $7.2 million from Trump’s campaign and four other related political committees. [read post]
2 May 2024, 2:00 pm
In the end, the encampment on Royce Quad was both unlawful and a breach of policy. [read post]
2 May 2024, 11:45 am
“The university strongly condemns any violence by protesters or counter-protesters and will respond to violence if it occurs,” the statement said. [read post]
1 May 2024, 9:01 pm
Debates about the permissibility of protests on college campuses today seem fixated on the notion of violence. [read post]
1 May 2024, 3:00 am
Dozens of tents occupied the quad at the center of campus. [read post]
29 Apr 2024, 4:08 pm
Biden’s latest efforts to get tough on immigration have included resuming deportation flights to Haiti amid growing violence and unrest in the country. [read post]
29 Apr 2024, 5:41 am
The Srebrenica killings were the most extreme manifestation of the “ethnic cleansing” policy of Bosnian Serbs and the driving force behind them, the late Serbian and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević, during the 1990s wars that followed the splintering of the former Yugoslavia. [read post]
