The student editors of the Columbia Law Review demanded that exams be cancelled over their trauma from witnessing and experience police “violence” against anti-Israel protesters.
The students made their demand in a letter sent out on Thursday after police liberated the college’s Hamilton Hall from pro-Hamas protesters on Tuesday and arrested about a hundred people.
“As the Administrative Board of student editors of the Columbia Law Review, we urge the Law School to cancel exams and give all students passing grades for their work throughout the semester,” the letter read in part.
“The violence we witnessed last night has irrevocably shaken many of us on the Review. We know this to be the same for a majority of our classmates. Videos have circulated of police clad in riot gear mocking and brutalizing our students. The events of last night left us, and many of our peers, unable to focus and highly emotional during this…
