13 Federal Judges Vow to Not Hire From Columbia University

A group of 13 federal judges has declared that they won’t hire any new graduates of Columbia University, citing what they described as an “explosion of student disruptions, anti-Semitism, and hatred for diverse viewpoints” on the Ivy League school campus. “As judges who hire law clerks every year to serve in the federal judiciary, we have lost confidence in Columbia as an institution of higher education,” the judges wrote in a letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik. The May 6 letter comes as turmoil continues at Columbia after police officers in riot gear descended on the New York City campus to break up the pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the green and retake an academic building back from student occupiers. The New York Police Department stated that 80 of the 112 protesters arrested at Columbia during the April 30 sweep were students....