The hearings were always going to be political theater. The presidents refused to make the political statement that if there had been genocidal speech threatening Jewish students, that speech would not have been permitted.
Columbia's president, Shafik promised to crack down on the students and faculty responsible for this purportedly injurious speech and showed no sign of being deterred from that by the principles of academic freedom.
This approach satisfied neither the Republicans on the committee nor the faculty back home, who voted no confidence in her. After disastrous decisions, Shafik ended up resigning like her fellow Ivy presidents.
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