‘She has forfeited the privilege to lead this great university,’ said history professor Christopher Brown
MANHATTAN—A group of Columbia University professors held a rally Monday to express solidarity with the anti-Semitic students suspended for holding unauthorized protests on campus and to lambaste university president Minouche Shafik for cracking down on them.
One faculty member, Columbia University history professor Christopher Brown, called for Shafik’s resignation over her decision to call in the NYPD to round up and arrest unruly student protesters who refused to vacate the campus green.
“I have no confidence in the president’s leadership,” Brown said. “She has forfeited the privilege to lead this great university.”
Brown and dozens of other faculty members from both Columbia and Barnard College assembled on the steps of the Low Memorial Library to express support…
