Entitled, petulant student mobs think they can bend the world to their whims. This belief stems from how weak universities coddle them when the schools should actually bring the hammer down on those students when their “protests” violate the rules.
To its credit, Vanderbilt University got that memo. Almost 30 students staged a sit-in outside Chancellor Daniel Diermeier’s office to protest that Vanderbilt wouldn’t let students vote on a boycott, divestment, and sanctions proposal against Israel. The university says that the students “forcibly” entered the building despite it being closed for construction and “clearly marked as such.” Some students also allegedly assaulted a community service officer to get into the building and pushed staff members offering to meet with them.
Antisemitism? Check. Trespassing? Check. Alleged assault? Check. Add on the racial essentialism for shaming a black police officer for not supporting their antisemitic protest, and you have a wonderful collection of people who think the world should revolve around them and their petulant whining because their parents are paying more than $60,000 a year for them to attend Vanderbilt.
Many universities would trip over themselves to continue coddling these fully grown adult toddlers, but Vanderbilt thus far has not. The university suspended at least 16 of the students, and three have been charged with assaulting the officer, while a fourth was charged with vandalism. The suspended students can’t attend classes or go to their university dorm rooms, and according to their attorney, “their educational and professional futures are in dire jeopardy.”
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That sure is a bummer, but perhaps those students should have thought about that before allegedly forcibly entering a building they were not authorized to enter so they could throw a tantrum because the university won’t let them vote to support antisemitism. These students have been misled, whether by their own coddled upbringing or by the spinelessness of other universities that have allowed student protesters to walk all over them, to think there are no consequences for their actions and that their tantrums must be indulged and even praised.
If more universities handled their student mobs as Vanderbilt did, there would be fewer examples of, say, students trying to break down doors to get ahold of Jewish students. Suspensions need to be a more common tool when dealing with these “protests,” or else universities will just continue to become breeding grounds for entitled young adults who throw a fit when their workplace doesn’t toe their preferred woke lines.