Because there's no better signal to potential employers for recent college graduates?
The media ignores them, but there's tons of protests at state schools as well. Guess you could send your kids to some religious university I suppose.
There were also protests in TX state schools, same result essentially.
Some schools don't allow other students to take over the campus and prevent other paying students from access or attending class. They also don't permit violence. Obviously each of those schools has their own political agenda controlled by their govenors but kids can go to class.
People hanging out on lawns don't prevent anyone from attending class. The encampments have been, to the best of my knowledge, entirely peaceful. Certainly the one at Columbia has been.
You can disagree with the protestors. You can think they're trespassing or that they're being too disruptive. But you don't get to lie on my watch.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/22/us-news/columbia-cancels-in-pe...
what about when protestors seize and vandalize an academic building? Is that not preventing anyone from attending classes?
https://www.al.com/news/2024/04/columbia-university-israel-h...
What about the Jewish girl that was sent to the hospital at UCLA? https://twitter.com/kleavittnh/status/1785495804393701780
probably hard for her to attend classes that day?
Hows your watch going?
Where did those things happen, specifically? At Columbia, the university administration shut down campus; it was functioning fine otherwise (except for one building on the last day).
"except for one building on the last day", lol except for the one building that was vandalized likely for millions of dollars in damages. That was an escalation, how much more would it escalate if the police had not stepped in?
A crime is a crime, it does not matter if its state / federal or misdemeanor. Do we just allow crime if some of us decide that its for a good reason? Who gets to decide if the reason is just? That's a pretty slippery slope you are looking to walk up.