Monday, August 12, 2024
Sun and Clouds. High 82 degrees.
There is no rain expected this week until Saturday, and temperatures will sit nicely between 63 and 84 degrees.
Notices
Our calendar has lots of local events. Click on the link or the lady in the upper righthand corner to check.
The Perseid meteor showers peaked Sunday night, but it is expected to remain visible for the next few nights. For the best possible viewing, though, you’ll want to find somewhere with as little light pollution as possible.
Sunday is National Senior Citizen’s Day.
Upper West Side News
By Gus Saltonstall
Details were just announced for the Morningside Heights Lights, which will return in September for the 13th year.
An illuminated community procession will go from Morningside Park to Columbia University’s campus on Saturday, September 21.
There will also be lantern-building workshops for the procession beginning on September 14. Registration for these workshops will begin on September 4.
“Morningside Lights returns to illuminate the night with IN RETROSPECT: 100 Years of New York Art, a shared celebration of a century of the New York art and artists that have shaped our vision of the city, or inspired us to evolve, learn, and move forward,” reads a description of the event.
The procession is presented in collaboration with Friends of Morningside Park.
You can find out more about it — HERE.
A pair of teens were stabbed over the weekend in an Upper West Side fast-food eatery, as reported by multiple publications.
A 16-year-old and 17-year-old got into an argument with a man on Saturday afternoon inside a Panda Express at 2852 Broadway, near the corner of West 111th Street, according to police. The attacker stabbed the 16-year old in the lower back and the 17-year-old in the abdomen, the New York Post reported.
The pair took themselves to Mount Sinai Morningside hospital in stable condition.
It is unclear what the argument was about and there have been no arrests.
You can read more — HERE.
A trio of Columbia University deans resigned last week after they were removed in July when photographs of their text messages , which “touched on ancient antisemitic tropes,” were released and reported on by multiple publications.
The three administrators had previously been placed on indefinite leave.
“Hard to hear the woe is me,” one text read. “Amazing what $$$$ can do,” another observed. “If only every identity community had these resources and support.”
The texts were sent as the deans took part in a May 31 panel discussion about Jewish life at Ivy League schools.
An audience member sitting behind the trio photographed the text messages on one of the dean’s phones, and shared them with The Washington Free Beacon.
You can read more — HERE.
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There is no place for antisemitism at Columbia or any other school, ftm. So long Dean(s)
The Antisemitism will continue till the elections!
Oh, please! Do you really think an election is going to automagically erase antisemitism!? That’s never happened in the past. That troll just goes back under its bridge waiting for the next opportunity to show its ugly head.
You mean when a Jewish man is the new Husband-in-Chief? I’m pretty sure it will continue until time immemorial. It’s the oldest “ism” in the world.
The Assistant Dean of Student Life or whatever should know that they’re low in the hierarchy of a place like Columbia. Good riddance.
Loving all this morningside heights coverage
So much for Free Speech; huh?
I’ve heard the term “Antisemitism” so often it’s becoming a trope. It’s also been conflated with Anti-Zionism. A deliberate obfuscation of the entire issue. They’re not even the same folks.
There’s no such thing as “Free Speech”. No law or governing body ever established a right to say whatever you want without consequence.
There are laws that limit the prohibition of some “speech”, but even the definition of what is considered “speech” is context specific.
I’m not aware of any laws that prohibit Columbia’s right to have students who trespass on their property arrested, or to fire administrators for behavior that violates their standards of conduct.
mmm hmm. Not just that, but if you look at the remarks of the adminstrators, they’re very clear eyed about who was testifying in front of them and what they were witnessing (well funded agitators posing for the cameras and using their wealth to advance a particular political view at the expense of another).
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Unless we’re in the business of denouncing/disowning folks in organizations like Jewish Voices for Peace, Breaking the Silence, and Jews for Racial & Economic Justice
That’s all well and good, but has absolutely no relevance to what happened here. Makes one question your motives.
These 3 deans resigning is I think the first piece of positive news coming out of Columbia in the last six months!
Really unbelievable that people of that ilk can end up as Deans at an Ivy League University in Manhattan. Had their text messages not been copied and revealed, these people would have remained in place likely doing all manner of damage to unsuspecting students who believed they were there to help them. Let’s hope the remainder of Columbia’s staff and faculty are not ignorant bigots who have no place near anyone’s kids. Big thanks to the person who copied the text messages. The fourth dean should also resign. His self serving apology was only meant to preserve his income and repair his reputation. Too little too late.
Palestinians are Semites.
That’s irrelevant. Anti-Semitism ONLY refers to Jewish people, period.