A Columbia University student is trying to take matters into her own hands by petitioning her university to hold a graduation ceremony on campus after the university canceled major ceremonies citing safety concerns. There is.
Columbia University senior Dana Krantz, who started the petition, joined fellow senior Allie Woodward on “Fox & Friends First,” despite weeks of violent anti-Israel protests. We discussed the importance of holding university-wide graduation ceremonies on campus.
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“I truly believe that Columbia University no longer wants its students to just say, ‘Okay,’ and accept the status quo.” I feel like I’m signing this,” Professor Krantz said. Tuesday’s co-host is Todd Pirro. “Jews have signed on to this…Jews want a graduation ceremony. This is what we all worked for.”
“This petition is definitely bigger than me at this point, gathering over 3,000 signatures in less than 24 hours,” she continued.
Columbia University announced Monday that it would cancel its main graduation ceremony on campus in the wake of violent anti-Israel riots and instead hold a series of smaller events.
“Holding a large graduation ceremony on campus posed safety concerns that unfortunately proved insurmountable,” Columbia University spokesman Ben Chan said Monday. “Like the students, we are extremely disappointed in this outcome.”
University officials told Fox News that safety concerns in the wake of recent anti-Israel protests on campus were one of the main reasons for the decision to cancel large events. Columbia University is Wave of anti-Semitic protests As a result, more than 100 people were arrested.
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“Frankly, I think we could have communicated better with the school and the student body,” Krantz responded. “And I feel like at one point they were very good at communicating with students and then at one point they decided to stop doing it completely. Why are students talking about canceling graduation ceremonies through the media? “Why don’t they receive the information?” Did you send an email to let them know in advance? It feels like it doesn’t even give them a choice to react. ”
“It’s over. It’s over. That’s it. It’s cancelled. Just like the students graduating this year, they didn’t get a normal freshman year. They didn’t get a normal high school graduation, and now they… They’re graduating.”They don’t get a normal graduation ceremony, a traditional Columbia graduation ceremony, but they deserve it because they’ve worked so hard for it,” she continued.
Woodward said he has heard schools cite concerns about capacity as the reason for cancellations, but he insisted that is not the case.
“Columbia University is saying in a very big way, ‘We’re making all these decisions for you, and we’re doing this because we care about each and every student.’ “You think you’re there, but you’re not really like that at all right now for any of us,” she said. “I can only speak for myself, but all the students I know feel like the university doesn’t really care about us right now.”
Katie, a Columbia University senior who missed her high school graduation due to the coronavirus, told Fox News on Monday night that despite her lifelong efforts to get into an Ivy League school, He said he no longer wanted to attend graduation ceremonies.
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“I’ve had straight A’s throughout my college career, and now I don’t even want to walk out to graduation because my administration has not only given me the last three or four years, but the past seven months, so many times. Because we know what they’ve proven time and time again.” Refusing to protect Jewish students and ordinary American students who just want to go to class, she said, “Jesse Watters… He spoke on “Prime Time.”
“My Jewish friends have heard them shout 10,000 times that October 7th is going to happen to you every day,” she continued. “They threw stones at my friends. They held up placards indicating Al-Qassam’s next target in front of Jews who were shouting and singing songs of peace. All Zionists must die. There was a student who said, “We deserve it, and we deserve to die.” Everyone should be thankful he hasn’t murdered us yet. This rhetoric should not be tolerated anywhere in the country, much less on a campus with 5,000 Jewish students. ”
Krantz said she was worried about whether she would be able to secure a steady job after graduation, given the hate-filled turmoil of recent weeks.
“I’ve already gotten comments from people like, ‘Good luck, they’re not going to hire you just because you went to Columbia,'” Krantz said. “For me, I’m a mom, I have two boys, and I want to get a really good job after this. And hearing that now, it’s basically taking away all the hardship. is.”
“What’s the point of going to college if you can’t get a good job?”
FOX News’ Greg Norman and Madison Alworth contributed to this report.
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