Columbia’s President Was Booed at Graduation

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Columbia University has spent more than a year as the epicenter of student protests against Israel’s assault on Gaza and, more recently, the target of the Trump administration’s attack on elite colleges. In light of the school acquiescing to the president’s demands in recent months and the detention of Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil by ICE, the student body had a lot to protest during graduation.

On Tuesday, Claire Shipman, Columbia’s acting president...