Barnard OpEds

Sounds like he's trying to be a unifying voice reminding us that we all believe in free speech. Maybe an invitation to campus instead of an OpEd . . . . .

ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.

It’s likely that this happened to them, in which case, again, this should be much bigger news. We can’t just disappear thousands of people without notifying anyone

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It makes me sad that the faculty don't understand that the police are our partners in protecting the campus as a site for disciplined free speech. Mulling over my next OpEd. 🤔 ✍️

This is exactly how AI provides more creative ways for talking about difficult subjects. See my forthcoming OpEd about how we can lower the temperature by thinking about structure rather than people.

Speech Code Rating Community Living at Michigan Standards: Behavior Toward University Staff Policy Rating Yellow Speech Code Category Other Speech Codes Last Updated April 26, 2025 Behavior Toward University Staff All individuals are expected to demonstrate respect and consideration for University staff, including ResStaff and any M Housing student staff member working within their job functions. Abusive or threatening language or actions towards staff is prohibited. The University of Michigan Policy on Sexual and Gender-Based Misconduct: Sexual Harassment

Digging into the speech codes that affect students. Michigan gets a yellow b/c it has a sexual harassment policy, and a policy that prohibits threatening language against staff. Seems like a very tangible representation of some tradeoffs when it comes to speech.
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The University requires that employees maintain a standard of performance and conduct that contributes to the continuing excellence and orderly and efficient operation of the University. The University, in its sole discretion, will determine whether an employee’s performance, conduct or behavior meets this standard.

For example, U Michigan has some language that they can punish faculty, including firing if they violate the "orderly and efficient operation of the University."

Seems very broad!

So if faculty post something that fuels an online pile-on of the university, can I be fired? Does Fire track this?

Barnard College president promotes free expression, does not comment on recent anti-free-expression policies at the college The president of neighboring Barnard College writes:

Gelman on Barnard's about-face (he doesn't say what prior speech / flags / etc had been prohibited by Barnard, but you can guess, and if you follow the links, you'll see you're right) open.substack.com/pub/statmode...

Rosenbury op-ed on Charlie Kirk and ‘difficult speakers’ sparks backlash from students, faculty <i>Updated Sept. 21 at 11:17 p.m.</i>

Rosenbury op-ed on Charlie Kirk and ‘difficult speakers’ sparks backlash from students, faculty

#Barnard President Laura Rosenbury should resign

I mean, how clueless can you be?

Columbia Daily Spectator (@columbiaspec) on Threads Barnard President Laura Rosenbury published an op-ed in the New York Times on Wednesday titled “Charlie Kirk Challenged College Students. We Need More Like Him,” sparking backlash from faculty and stu...

barnard loves fascism
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They are only doing this because these capitulations to trans personhood have only detracted from the fundamental mission of a college: to train students in dealing with difficulty.

If this grant is available, I can find students and faculty proud to innovate in the technological realm.

'The Bear' writer arrested on train after complaint from white woman Alex O'Keefe shared a video on social media of him being arrested, with the clip quickly going viral.

Wonder if this alert woman is available to help Barnard revive our old posture test? These students sit any old way, sometimes with offensive signs. People claim the test was invented by a eugenicist, but he was really just concerned about physical health.

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I can categorically say I was NOT fired from the Washington Post for characterizing Kirk’s views on Black women.

I’ll share the real reasons.

Post coming soon.

Free speech is when conservatives can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/tani...

Censorship is here and it’s come in the form of corporations censoring themselves in order to win favor with the regime.

"Paul von Hindenburg really cared about fire safety and proper oversight of elected officials: We Need More Like Him"

Worth noting that Khalil (and others) who have everything to lose, have shown more bravery and commitment to free speech than elites across academia, corporate America, culture and politics bsky.app/profile/josh...

any self-respecting student or faculty member at Barnard MUST immediately call for the resignation of a college president who, looking at this collection of Charlie Kirk quotes, unbelievably said, "we need more like him."
No we don't. No one should be murdered. But more bigots aren't needed.Nope.

A disgustingly hypocritical piece by the President of my alma mater.
This is yet another op-ed she’s written that alienates her own students.
As a proud alum, Barnard students deserve better. At the very least, Rosenbury needs better PR.

I canceled my NYT subscription years ago (during the first Trump admin, how fun to be back here), but I got this in my inbox with a sanctimonious email basically as long at the piece itself. I loved Barnard. It has broken my heart over the past two years.

What a disgrace you are, Laura Rosenbury.

"A week and a half after the start of the 2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupation, and the suspensions of 55 Barnard students, the Barnard College..Professors unanimously issued a vote of "no confidence" in Rosenbury" she is such a toxic asshole en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_R...

Charlie Kirk called Jasmine Crockett a 'circus act' part of the 'great replacement' of white people. Here’s her reaction after his shooting "That is, unfortunately, the cancer known as white supremacy," said Crockett after learning about Kirk's comments about her and Democrats.

This is the same Barnard-Columbia complex that allowed the jailing of Mahmoud Khalil. Here is their favorite difficult speaker-murdering whom was evil— on white replacement theory , a theory which has led to two massacres: thegrio.com/2025/09/17/c...

Hey man. Have some care for the oligarchs’s NYT and their hyper-rich mgmt sycophants. It’s really tough being a reactionary rag while pretending to your mushball liberal subscribers that you’re not pimping the fascists.

But their Op-Ed from the Barnard president extolling Kirk is very helpful.

Barnard President: Charlie Kirk Challenged College Students. We Need More Like Him. Sept. 17, 2025

Funny, the last time in recent memory university administrators felt challenged by students over an issue of national and international significance, the state had them arrested, their encampments banned, and in some cases deported

Opinion | Barnard President: Charlie Kirk Challenged College Students. We Need More Like Him.

Insulting IRONY of Barnard President who suppressed the speech of student activists now coming strong for a racist, sexist, Charlie Kirk.

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Barnard President: Charlie Kirk Challenged College Students. We Need More Like Him. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...

Barnard President going out of her way to show support for Charlie Kirk who has consistently attacked Black and POC women, while also suppressing Palestinian student activists, is peak white woman. At the end of the day, white women will choose whiteness.

Opinion | Barnard President: Charlie Kirk Challenged College Students. We Need More Like Him.

The president of @barnard-college.bsky.social is wrong here. Demonizing a viewpoint is appropriate when the viewpoint is reprehensible, as many of Kirk's were. I expect less smarmy, both-sides kumbaya and more critical thinking from a college president. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...

NYT op-ed: Barnard President sez: Colleges must keep hosting difficult speakers

“And that’s why Barnard will continue to welcome those who argue that Israel must be replaced by a single binational Palestinian-majority state.”

Sure.

No link to self-serving patently disingenuous @nytopinion.nytimes.com dreck.

Columbia / Barnard continue to set the standard for embarrassing institutional leadership. You feel terrible for the faculty, staff, and students whose leaders are throwing them under the bus.