Serious students at Columbia University and their families were denied the opportunity to celebrate graduation without malcontents protesting and chanting (“The hatred commences at Columbia,” May 22).
It is interesting how demonstrators totally ignore the brutality of Oct. 7 and the continuing hostage crisis. Real oppression in Iran, South Africa, Angola, Cambodia and more remains ignored. It reeks of anti-Jewish hypocrisy.
Yakov Moshe
Brooklyn
Universities should be the premier milieu for free and open expression of ideas and opinions in a respectful and professional manner. Instead, the norm is becoming whoever shouts and threatens the loudest gets the say.
Many deserving students were turned away from admission to Columbia University, and here we see a sampling of some of the privileged few burning their diplomas and disgracing their parents, fellow students and professors on a day that should have had only one appropriate purpose.
The diplomas of the perpetrators should be rescinded, and meaningful legal punishment should be enforced.
Karl Olsen
Watervliet
You don’t need a college diploma to recognize that these blatantly disruptive students deserve expulsion and for their diplomas to be shredded.
While freedom of speech is a fundamental right, it has its limitations. These students clearly dozed off in history class and missed the lesson explaining that speech inciting lawlessness or provoking violence is not protected.
After four years of college, the only thing they managed to achieve on graduation day was creating mayhem. If that was their goal upon entering, then congratulations, mission accomplished.
Judy Petillo-Eggert
Long Branch, NJ
Columbia University will never be the same. Its reputation cannot be restored, so it will shrivel up and die.
Thomas Birnbaum
Manhattan
Allowing protesters to wear masks is giving the green light to a KKK practice: Display your hate, hide your identity.
If foreign students are fearing deportation for taking part in such cowardly acts against fellow students and staff, let them be afraid. They are not here to attack easy, vulnerable targets.
What happened at the Columbia graduation ceremony is nothing less than an act of war and an invasion of our daily routines, as the first step.
Gov. Kathy Hochul needs to stop hiding behind her skirt and bring the hammer down hard.
Susan Cienfuegos
New Rochelle
It is an insult to the citizens of New York City that District Attorney Alvin Bragg thinks we’re so ignorant as to believe that strict discovery laws have been solely responsible for his failure (“With Discovery Fixes, I’ll Try More Perps,” Alvin Bragg, May 23).
The truth is his own soft-on-crime, criminal-justice reform policies have plagued the city since he took office.
The modest relaxation of discovery rules will help somewhat, but it is Bragg himself who remains the primary reason for our crime problem.
Richard Carhidi
Manhattan
Does Alvin Bragg even read the New York Post?
It doesn’t appear so because there are criminals running through the streets, yet he’s writing about how discovery is a “big win for public safety.”
Releasing criminals is a daily threat to New Yorkers; it’s written in the paper day in and day out.
Was this column a joke?
Sara Gershon
Syosset
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