White House: Takeover of Columbia University building absolutely the wrong approach

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• LAPD arrest about 50 protesters at USC
• Officials looking to ban cashless businesses in Los …
• Columbia University threatens to expel student protesters …
• Opinion: California’s budget deficit will force difficult cuts. This one should be the easiest
• The Ding Dong Show with Don Barris: Netflix is a Joke Festival
• Columbia says encampments will scale down; scores of protesters arrested at USC: Updates
• Biden signs off on $17 billion in aid for Israel

The board said it is "urgently working" with Shafik to resolve the unrest on campus and "rebuild the bonds of our community." Work and classes will remain remote, and officials are considering keeping the campus closed for longer. An On Comedy column on Monday about the White House Correspondents Association dinner incorrectly included two renowned comics among those who have performed at past White House Correspondents’ Association dinners. Neither George Carlin nor Richard Pryor ever appeared, although in 1968, another Richard Pryor, known as “Cactus,” a Texas raconteur, did perform.

LAPD arrest about 50 protesters at USC

She said Columbia had also offered to donate money to support humanitarian work in Gaza, and to publish a list of its direct investment holdings – meeting a student demand for financial transparency. However, students instead formed a protective circle around the tents while continuing to chant. A fellow at the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago as well as the Hechinger Institute at Columbia University, the Emmy award winner appears regularly on The Times’ Spectrum News 1’s daily news magazine program, “L.A. Times Today.” Granderson joined CNN as a political contributor and columnist in 2009 before joining ABC in 2015. His podcast for ABC News, “Life Out Loud with LZ Granderson,” has won numerous honors, including a GLAAD award.

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However, after several months, a knee injury ended his Globetrotters career, finally clearing the way for him to devote himself full time to standup comedy. Born and raised in a small town outside of Columbus Ohio, Matt first hit the stage at only 15 years old and never looked back. Through social media he befriended some of the biggest names in the business who immediately spotted his talent and encouraged him to continue growing as an artist. Best known as the winner of Last Comic Standing Season 8, Comedian Rod Man is truly a gem in the World of Standup Comedy today.

Columbia University threatens to expel student protesters …

A photographer was among those arrested during clashes between protesters and law enforcement on the University of Texas at Austin campus on Wednesday. Other buildings on the campus in Arcata are at risk of being occupied, and protesters “have shown a willingness” to lock themselves in facilities and steal equipment, the officials said. The Los Angeles Police Department said 93 people were arrested on suspicion of trespassing during Wednesday's demonstrations at the University of Southern California.

Lady Shafik said the protest encampment had created “an unwelcoming environment for many of our Jewish students and faculty,” and that “external actors” had contributed to a “hostile environment” around the campus, in the Upper West Side of New York. When asked about President Biden’s thoughts on sending in the National Guard to deal with the protests on college campuses, which is an idea that some Republicans have suggested, Kirby said there is no active effort to federalize the guard. “The president believes that forcibly taking over a building on campus is absolutely the wrong approach, that is not an example of peaceful protests,” White House national security communications adviser John Kirby told reporters. In 2019, Lee created SRT in Schools, a touring program that brings live professional theatre to Tuolumne County schools at no cost to the schools, students, or their families.

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On Monday, a group of 21 Democrats in the House of Representatives joined senior Republicans in calling for Columbia to bring the protest to an end. Because of low birth rates and low rates of immigration, the U.S. has fewer young people in the classes graduating from high school after 2025. Though it must be said the lowering of hiring requirements isn’t the only threat to the college experience.

Imagine that your high school senior is interested in going to college and wants to major in education or communication or the arts. The sticker price for tuition, even at a state school, is going to look pretty steep. If your child were headed toward a degree in engineering or business, that same tuition might feel like a better bet.

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Biden signs off on $17 billion in aid for Israel

At issue is whether the suspensions and legal records will follow students through their adult lives. In the letter to student protesters at Columbia, school officials noted that exams are beginning and graduation is upcoming. The Texas protest and others grew out of Columbia's early demonstrations that have continued. Deadline to leave an encampment of around 120 tents on the school’s Manhattan campus. Instead, hundreds of protesters marched around the quad, clapping, chanting and weaving around piles of temporary flooring and green carpeting meant for graduation ceremonies that are supposed to begin next week. She said the school’s administration has consistently suppressed student support for Palestinians and now, after more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, the students decided to take more public action.

Graffiti described as “hateful” has been painted on campus, the officials said. Student reactions to calls for the college president's resignation have been mixed, Karam said. The university closed its campus Wednesday evening as LAPD began arresting demonstrators.

In 2015, when my son graduated from high school, Gallup found nearly 60% of Americans had a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in our higher education system. Weak testimony from university presidents is just the latest evidence of the decline of higher education. The children of first-generation college graduates are not supposed to go backpacking across (insert destination here). They’re supposed to continue the climb — especially given that higher education was unattainable for so many for so long. The thought of not sending my son to college felt like regression for our family.

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He was a founding member of award winning Los Angeles Theater Sports, and several other improvisation troupes. He’s taught at San Francisco Acting Academy, Bay Area Professional Actors Studio, Sonoma State University, SF High School for the Arts, and coaches privately. He used his unbelievable work ethic along with his wit to produce his own videos derived from everyday people he knows. Get ready for a laughter-packed weekend as we bring you the Comedy Extravaganza on May 17th and May 18th! Hosted by the one and only Ice Cream, this event promises to be two nights of pure hilarity that you won't want to miss. Arnez got a chance to combine his ambitions as both an athlete and performer when he was recruited by scouts for the famed Harlem Globetrotters basketball team who saw his very physical comedyroutine at a local basketball game.

“We tried countless times to go through institutional channels,” Barron said. At least 20 people were arrested after a large number of law enforcement officers in riot gear descended upon the University of Texas' Austin campus Wednesday and broke up a peaceful antiwar protest, the Austin American-Statesman reported. At least nine of those arrested were handcuffed and loaded into police vehicles. One student protest group called the threatened suspensions a “repulsive scare tactic”. “We will not move until Columbia meets our demands or we are moved by force,” it said in a statement. Academia has publicly mishandled the campus tensions and student protests that began after the Hamas attack against Israel on Oct. 7, and that certainly hasn’t been good for academia either.

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If not, the letter said, they would be suspended, pending further investigation. ∎ In the Boston area, encampments have been erected at multiple schools including Tufts University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Emerson College. The news came as police evacuated pro-Palestinian activists from Paris’ Sorbonne university who had set up tents inside its buildings. Joe Biden, the US president, said on April 21 that there had been an “alarming surge of anti-Semitism” after the protests. Some of the protesters have been accused of anti-Semitic chants and of harassing Jewish students by chanting about Zionism and calling for an end to the state of Israel. Student protesters at Columbia University defied a deadline on Monday to clear their pro-Palestine encampment after officials warned they would be suspended if they continued their occupation.