Every high school student understands the concept of cause and effect. It’s not exactly rocket science. But certain college administrators are relearning the lesson, the hard way, after apparently forgetting it.
Columbia University saw a nearly 30% drop in donations this Giving Day, an alarming shortfall that only deepens what The Columbia Spectator describes as a “donor crisis.”
It doesn’t take a lot of head-scratching to understand why.
Could headlines like the one below help explain it?
Cause and effect? What do you think?
Read the complete Campus Reform story here .
And how must some Columbia donors react to headlines like this?
Here’s more on that story :
The pro-Palestinian group that sparked the student encampment movement at Columbia University in response to the Israel-Hamas war is becoming more hard-line in its rhetoric, openly supporting militant groups fighting Israel and rescinding an apology it made after one of its members said the school was lucky he wasn’t out killing Zionists.
“We support liberation by any means necessary, including armed resistance,” the group, Columbia University Apartheid Divest , said in its statement revoking the apology.
The group marked the anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by distributing a newspaper with a headline that used Hamas’s name for it: “One Year Since Al-Aqsa Flood, Revolution Until Victory,” it read, over a picture of Hamas fighters breaching the security fence to Israel. And the group posted an essay calling the attack a “moral, military and political victory” and quoting Ismail Haniyeh , the assassinated former political leader of Hamas.
The lesson seems obvious enough. Coddling student militants is a good way to cost your school donors and dollars. And Harvard is learning that lesson as well.
