The day before her administration asked the New York police department to storm their campus and arrest their students, Minouche Shafik, the Columbia University president, testified before Congress, saying that she wanted her university to be a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.
Shafik appeared eager to please the Republican-controlled committee, making tepid defenses of academic freedom while favoring condemnations of protestors and removing some pro-Palestinian faculty and staff from their positions.
The hearing took on a fevered, impassioned tenor that at times verged into the outright weird, with Shafik facing questions about her intentions toward Columbia University.
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