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States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes to Fight Sexually Explicit Images of Minors
Caroline Mullet, a ninth grader at Issaquah High School near Seattle, went to her first homecoming dance last fall, a James Bond-themed bash with blackjack tables attended by hundreds of girls dressed up in party frocks. A few weeks later, she and other female students learned that a male classmate was circulating fake nude images […]
Read MoreColumbia Students Who Were Arrested Face Uncertain Consequences
Many of the more than 100 Columbia University and Barnard College students who were arrested after refusing to leave a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus on Thursday woke up to a chilly new reality this week: Columbia said that their IDs would soon stop working, and some of them would not be able to finish the […]
Read MoreColumbia, Free Speech and the Coddling of the American Right
As a journalist, you usually go to the front line to find the news. But sometimes the front line finds you. This happened to me not once but twice on Thursday, as an epic battle over freedom of expression on college campuses unfolded from one end of Manhattan to another. The first was when I […]
Read MoreWhat We Know About Columbia’s President, Nemat Shafik
The president of Columbia University, Nemat Shafik, is grappling with the fallout over her handling of student protests against the war in Gaza. After appearing in a congressional hearing where many Republican lawmakers criticized the university’s efforts to quash antisemitism on campus, the school called in local law enforcement for the first time in decades […]
Read MoreColumbia University Protests Over Gaza War Continue and Spread to Other Campuses
Dozens of student protesters at Columbia University gathered outside early Friday afternoon, just across from where their tent encampment had been demolished by university officials the day before. Some students had been there through the night. Others, including a few who had been arrested Thursday, had only recently arrived. There were heaps of blankets, deliveries […]
Read MoreColumbia Sends In the N.Y.P.D. to Arrest Protesters in Tent City
For about a day and a half, pro-Palestinian activists at Columbia University set up what they called a “Liberated Zone,” a temporary community with the spirit and values they wished existed on campus always. It was an impromptu tent village, with more than 50 tents, pitched on a large green lawn just outside the school’s […]
Read MoreRepublicans Wanted a Crackdown on Israel’s Critics. Columbia Obliged.
Columbia’s exceptionally poised president, Nemat Shafik, clearly has no intention of going down like the former heads of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, both driven from their jobs following disastrous appearances before a congressional committee investigating campus antisemitism. Testifying before the same panel on Wednesday, she readily agreed with Republicans’ premise that pro-Palestinian activism […]
Read MoreUniversity of Michigan and Other Colleges Crack Down on Student Protests
The 100-year-old annual honors convocation at the University of Michigan is typically a decorous affair, with a pipe organ accompanying golf-clap applause. This year’s event was anything but. Protesters rose from their seats, and unfurled banners with “Free Palestine” written in red paint. They shouted, “You are funding genocide!” Unable to continue with the ceremony, […]
Read MoreWhat to Know About the Turmoil at Colleges Over the Israel-Hamas War
As the Israel-Hamas war has escalated, many universities have been caught in an often vitriolic debate over how to handle pro-Palestinian student protests. Many Jewish students and alumni have been alarmed, saying that the demonstrations can veer into antisemitism. Supporters of academic freedom and students and faculty critical of Israel’s policy toward Palestinians have responded […]
Read MoreA Principal Confronted a Teenage Girl. Now He’s Facing Prison Time.
In a high school lobby in New Jersey, the principal saw a student heading toward a stairway and moved to cut her off. There was physical contact between them, though no blows. The interaction lasted less than a minute. The student filed an affirmative action complaint against the principal, saying that he had grabbed her […]
Read MoreTeen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools
Westfield Public Schools held a regular board meeting in late March at the local high school, a red brick complex in Westfield, N.J., with a scoreboard outside proudly welcoming visitors to the “Home of the Blue Devils” sports teams. But it was not business as usual for Dorota Mani. In October, some 10th-grade girls at […]
Read MoreThe Dangerous Policing of Palestinian Speech on College Campuses
At New York University, the spring semester began with a poetry reading. Students and faculty gathered in the atrium of Bobst Library. At that time, about 26,000 Palestinians had already been killed in Israel’s horrific war on Gaza; the reading was a collective act of bearing witness. The last poem read aloud was titled “If […]
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