#Latest news with #OfficeofEqualOpportunityandAffirmativeActionWashington Post05-02-2025PoliticsWashington PostColumbia University and the limits of free speechRegarding the Jan. 24 front-page article 'A professor criticized Israeli students. It put her job at Columbia at risk.': I read with great alarm about the treatment of Columbia Law School professor Katherine Franke by the university's Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action. I graduated from Columbia Law School in the early 1970s, at the height of the anti-Vietnam War protests. There were extremely strong feelings on both sides of the issue, and there were numerous on- and off-campus demonstrations involving students and faculty. I was arrested off campus for antiwar activities.
Washington Post05-02-2025PoliticsWashington PostColumbia University and the limits of free speechRegarding the Jan. 24 front-page article 'A professor criticized Israeli students. It put her job at Columbia at risk.': I read with great alarm about the treatment of Columbia Law School professor Katherine Franke by the university's Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action. I graduated from Columbia Law School in the early 1970s, at the height of the anti-Vietnam War protests. There were extremely strong feelings on both sides of the issue, and there were numerous on- and off-campus demonstrations involving students and faculty. I was arrested off campus for antiwar activities.