Columbia University Takes a Powder as the Ivy League Wrestles With Antisemitism on Campus
Where is President Shafik — and why is she allowing groups that have been suspended at Columbia to reorganize?
Absent from last week’s congressional hearing with the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Penn, who refused to answer the question of whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” violates their codes of conduct or rules against bullying, was the president of Columbia University, Minouche Shafik.
According to Congresswoman Virginia Foxx’s chief of staff, Ms. Shafik was supposed to be present but was traveling out of the country. While Ms. Shafik may have avoided the national limelight last week, pressure has been mounting for Columbia to do something about the rise of antisemitism on campus since October 7.
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