Students Are Demanding Universities Divest From Israel—and Dirty Energy
Milo Hess/Zuma This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Campus organizers at three universities filed legal complaints on Monday arguing that their schools’ investments in planet-heating fossil fuels are illegal, the Guardian has learned. The students from Columbia University, Tulane University, and the University of Virginia each wrote…
Mike Johnson’s Visit to Columbia Wasn’t a Hit
Anthony Behar/Sipa USA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) emerged onto the steps of Columbia University’s Low Memorial Library on Wednesday afternoon, he was greeted with a deafening sound: hundreds of booing students. Johnson had just emerged from meetings…
“It’s Just Like McCarthyism”: NYU Students and Faculty Push Back on Protest Crackdown
NYU students and faculty protested in Washington Square Park on Tuesday after university officials brought the NYPD in to arrest 120 protesters the night before.Julianne McShane/Mother Jones Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Less than 24 hours after police arrested 120 people at a pro-Palestine…
Gaza Solidarity Encampments Are Spreading Far Beyond Columbia’s Campus
Pro-Palestine protesters remained in an encampment at Columbia University’s lawn on Monday.Stefan Jeremiah/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A growing number of college students nationwide are staging encampments to protest their universities’ investments in Israeli entities in light of Israel’s war on Gaza, which…
Dartmouth Basketball Players Vote to Become the First Unionized College Sports Team
Richard Ulreich/CSM/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Dartmouth men’s basketball team voted 13-2 in favor of forming a union on Tuesday, in a move that could make them the first unionized group of college athletes. The players voted to join SEIU Local 560, which…
Affirmative Action May Be Dead—But the Battle Over Race and Admissions Is Just Getting Started
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, often ranked as the country’s top public high school, lies across the Potomac River from Washington in Alexandria, Virginia. For years, the magnet school’s student body has been majority Asian…