Hiring professors to teach subjects is nit caving in. It is called education, one of the primary reasons of the university.
It is caving in when these professors are more interested in propaganda than education. We have seen it before when universities hired left-wing extremist professors, many from violent groups like Black Panthers (like Ericka Huggins) or Weather Underground (like Bill Ayers).
I realize to strong law and order types feel punishing transgressors is important, but that is not a primary function of a university. Modelling good judgment and rationality is the proper role.
It is certainly not good judgment to let loud and obnoxious extremists determine how a university should be run. You would not support it if, say, extreme anti-abortion activists had taken over quads and issued demands, and you should not be supportive of extreme Israel haters either.
“Significant portion” means at least one?
No.
Legitimate does not mean wise or successful.
It is certainly not wise or successful to cave in to extremists who extort universities into giving them what they want.
What to you is "peaceful protesting"? Is occupying the quad that nobody else can use it really peaceful? How about harassing university officials at their homes? What about breaking and entering into Hamilton Hall?
The answers to your questions 2-4 (in order) are
2) Yes,
3) depends on what is called harrassment, and
4) depends on the effect of the occupation.
2. So you think occupying an area that does not belong to you and denying the use of university space to others is legitimate and should not be punished?
3. Making noise in a neighborhood early in the morning and dumping fake dead bodies on people's lawn. Do you think that is right? Would you think the same if it was fake bloody aborted fetuses instead?
4. Whether or not an occupation is successful depends on the testicular (and ovarian) fortitude of the administration of the university under attack. But you think breaking and entering and occupying buildings is ok as long as they get the universities to cave to them?
Btw, there have been more such occupations recently.
19 protesters arrested after trying to occupy Penn's Fisher-Bennett Hall
ABC 6 said:
According to the university, 19 people, including seven Penn students, were arrested. Twelve people were issued citations for failure to disperse and failure to follow police commands and were later released.
Seven protesters remain in custody awaiting felony charges, including one for assaulting a police officer.
All these creeps should be prosecuted, and those who are students should be expelled. Unfortunately, Larry Krasner, Philadelphia DA is a fauxgressive who is unlikely to prosecute.
Pro-Palestinian protesters occupy University of Chicago campus building
CBS News said:
Pro-Palestinian protesters occupied a University of Chicago campus building Friday afternoon and evening, as Alumni weekend began on campus.
The protesters entered and occupied the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, 5707 S. Woodlawn Ave. Organizers calling themselves UChi Occupation said the Institute of Politics was the first college building to be occupied in Chicago in connection with the widespread campus protests.
[...]A banner unfurled in front of the building proclaimed that the Institute of Politics was now named the "Casbah Bassel Al-Araj," referring to a Palestinian writer and activist who was killed during a shootout with an Israeli counterterrorism unit during a raid in the West Bank.
No word of any arrests, but the Cook County DA, Kim Foxxx, is another far left winger.
Btw, this Bassel Al-Araj was a terrorist who died in 2017 during a shootout with IDF.
Palestinian suspect killed in gunfight with IDF troops in West Bank
To its left, another banner unfurled from the front porch read: "1. Free Palestine, 2. Abolish the University, 3. Land Back, 4. F**k Gentrification, 5. F**k 12 [police]."
A litany of unhinged far left demands, but "abolish the University" one is new.
Among those affected by these thugs was Heidi Heitkamp, who is working for the university now.
Protesters Stormed an Ex-Senator’s Office and Demanded She Leave. She Refused.
NY Times said:
ormer Senator Heidi Heitkamp was sitting in her second floor office at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, preparing to appear on a television news show on Friday afternoon, when three pro-Palestinian protesters in masks and sunglasses burst in and ordered her to leave the building.
Ms. Heitkamp, the director of the institute and the only staff member left in the building, refused to go, slowing what had apparently been an effort to take over the building, the latest tactic in demonstrations over the Israel-Hamas war that have taken place on the University of Chicago campus and across the country.
“They desperately wanted me out,” Ms. Heitkamp recalled. “I told them, ‘I’m not going to leave. This is our building.’ And I planted my feet.” She added, “I’m a stubborn old woman.”
Ms. Heitkamp, who represented North Dakota as a Democrat in the Senate, said she tried to engage in a dialogue with the protesters about their goals and why they had targeted the institute, even as she heard others smashing furniture in other rooms.
Btw, do you still insist that destroying university property is a legitimate protest tactic? Or only when you agree with them?
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