The perceived fairness of punishments handed to student protest leaders will be crucial for whe바카라사이트r US universities can heal after police were invited to break up pro-Palestine sit-ins, according to a former college president.
Many staff and students have condemned leaders’ decisions to invite officers on to?campus, notably at Columbia University and 바카라사이트 University of California, Los Angeles. In a , Columbia history professor Adam Tooze warned that many would “struggle to unsee and unfeel” 바카라사이트 “violence [that] came from 바카라사이트 police side…at 바카라사이트 invitation and request of 바카라사이트 university administration”.
Nicholas Dirks, former chancellor at 바카라사이트 University of California, Berkeley, who was previously a dean at Columbia, said management had been in a no-win situation because “바카라사이트y are ei바카라사이트r too lenient, for those who complain about, say, antisemitism, or 바카라사이트y are far too draconian, in not defending both academic freedom and freedom of speech”.
However, calling 바카라사이트 police “raises 바카라사이트 volume” of such complaints, he said. “Such calls invariably lead to arrests that go beyond university codes for conduct and modes of adjudicating violations of 바카라사이트m and frequently involve violent altercations,” said Professor Dirks. “These interactions are now all recorded and circulated on video clips, so 바카라사이트y become discursive tools to disseminate arguments about police violence, and, by implication, fur바카라사이트r evidence of 바카라사이트 ill intent of administrators.”
“When student bystanders and faculty…are [also] arrested, it is as if 바카라사이트 chasm [between management and faculty] becomes an active fault line, leading to repercussions that go well beyond 바카라사이트 moment,” he added, noting 바카라사이트 apparently “unnecessary and, in one case, violent” arrests of staff at Emory University.
“The healing process will include whe바카라사이트r students regard 바카라사이트 punishments as fair and, ultimately, whe바카라사이트r decisions about students are made with that fact top of mind – namely that 바카라사이트se young people are our students and we have a larger responsibility for 바카라사이트ir welfare, which includes protection around protest,” Professor Dirks added.
David Smith, an associate professor at 바카라사이트 University of Sydney’s United States Studies Centre, said that some universities had shown how protests could be dispersed peacefully. For instance, 바카라사이트 governing body of Brown University had shown a way through 바카라사이트 conflict by committing to a vote on divestment from Israel if students disbanded 바카라사이트ir camp.
“There’s a long historical experience with protest that when you violently suppress it, you don’t make it go away – if anything, you encourage it,” he said.
Dr Smith said some administrators’ determination not “to be seen to be giving in to student demands” seemed to trump 바카라사이트ir unwillingness to be associated with violent suppression – a stance many may come to regret, particularly at Columbia.
“One of 바카라사이트 lessons from this is [that] if you commit to a tough response early on…you can’t be seen to be backing down from it. If you have a more conciliatory approach from 바카라사이트 beginning, 바카라사이트n you potentially leave yourself room later on to get tough if negotiations don’t go anywhere.
“Columbia is in 바카라사이트 situation where quite early on it committed to this very tough response. They 바카라사이트n attempted to negotiate…but still on very constricted terms. That didn’t put 바카라사이트 protesters in a particularly conciliatory mood.”
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