Columbia University cancels commencement: Letters

The Issue: Columbia University canceling its commencement ceremony following campus protests.

Columbia University will not have a commencement ceremony for graduates (“ ‘Cowardice’ commences,” May 7).

Supposedly smaller venues are scheduled, but it looks like its president Minouche Shafik has given in to protesters.

Many graduates were looking forward to a true graduation ceremony, but Columbia is surrendering to protesters’ disruptions. This makes it more evident that Shafik should resign because of the mishandling of the protests.

Other universities around the country did exactly the opposite by removing protesters and their camps, plus expelling some student protesters and having them arrested.

About time to give back college campuses to young people who want to learn, not disrupt.

Joseph Comperchio

Brooklyn

I don’t get it. Parents save or take on debt to help put their kids through college. This can amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars and lots of sacrifice. At the end is a graduation ceremony with a college degree. (Though many of those degrees, we know, won’t help you earn more than the minimum wage today.)

Graduation is a high point for students as well as parents. Now the cowards at Columbia have decided not to have a graduation ceremony.

Ron Heimer

Yuma, Ariz.

Much like Dr. Frankenstein, Ivy League administrators are now experiencing the horrors of their creation. For years, these so-called educators have been indoctrinating students rather than teaching them. This has led to what we have been seeing over the last six months: a swath of students swayed by professional agitators because they can’t think for themselves.

Peter W. Kelly

Hazlet, NJ

Graduation ceremonies are meant to affirm a monumental milestone in an individual’s life. It’s unbelievable that acts against humanity in another part of the world could have such a profound effect domestically.

Wayne E. Williams

Camden, NJ

The Issue: The Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund sending millions to a radical pro-Palestine nonprofit.

As the familiar adage goes: “Follow the money” (“Riot fueled by Goldman Sachs,” May 6).

These demonstrations have ties to benefactors that do not have the best interests of America at heart. Those benefactors should be publicly exposed for the divisive anarchy they are funding as they try to make Israel the scapegoat.

We’ve all heard about George Soros’ and the Rockefeller Foundation’s alleged connections to these protests, and now it would appear Goldman Sachs is involved.

Betsy Flor

Putnam Valley

Here’s an idea: Why not allocate millions of dollars to helping the homeless, veterans and other people who can’t make ends meet — in other words, supporting real charities?

But no, too many ultra-rich people, corporations and organizations don’t want to do that. They’d rather waste millions funding protests.

Jim Forkan

Bayside

Great job shining light on the monied folks who are financially tied to the protests.

Gary Markman

Beacon Falls, Conn.

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