20th century in the 1960s he led the Students for a Democratic Society, and in 1968 he was instrumental in the week-long protest against the Vietnam War.
Activists also opposed the university’s plans to build a gymnasium in the nearby Harlem neighborhood. According to them, the gymnasium would have been segregated.
The October 7 attack in southern Israel by Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip and Israel’s retaliation in the Palestinian enclave sparked the largest outbreak of student activism in the United States since 2020. of protests against racism. The protesters are demanding three things from Columbia University: to stop investing in companies that support the Israeli government, to increase the transparency of the university’s finances, and to apply amnesty to students and faculty who have received disciplinary measures because of the protests.
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik said this week that the university would not end investments in Israeli companies, but offered to invest in health care and education in the Gaza Strip and make Columbia University’s portfolio of direct investments more transparent.
In a letter released Tuesday, April 30, Minouche Shafik acknowledged Columbia University’s “long and honorable tradition of protest and activism on many important issues.” Mark Rudd found the situation all too familiar.
After graduating from Columbia University, he joined the Weathermen, a radical left-wing student organization that also opposed the Vietnam War. Due to certain illegal activities, Mark Rudd was forced to go underground for a while. At the age of 30, he decided to surrender to law enforcement. He later taught mathematics at a community college in New Mexico.
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