Northwestern Cuts Deal with Encampment
Organizers, Establishes Full-Ride Scholarship
for Palestinian Students
National Review,
by
Zach Kessel
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
4/30/2024 10:34:45 PM
After five days of anti-Israel demonstrators occupying Deering Meadow on Northwestern University’s campus, Northwestern president Michael Schill and the rest of the university’s leadership decided to accede to several of the protesters’ demands.
While not committing to divesting its endowment from companies that do business in Israel and ending partnerships with Israeli institutions, the university released a list of concessions in a celebratory statement Monday afternoon in exchange for the removal of the encampment on the lawn.
Most notable among those concessions is a promise to offer full-ride scholarships to Palestinian students and guaranteed faculty jobs for Palestinian academics.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 4/30/2024 10:35:07 PM (No. 1709462)
What could possibly go wrong?
52 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 4/30/2024 10:42:22 PM (No. 1709470)
Far beyond stupid in complicity. Damn, the fools who run these fancy universities are some of the stupidest people alive.
97 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
sjredwood 4/30/2024 10:51:11 PM (No. 1709476)
Northwestern has a campus in Qatar. Nothing else to say here.
64 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Muguy 4/30/2024 10:53:51 PM (No. 1709478)
Pearls before swine to whiney babies
Money has no value-- like trying to shut up a spoiled brat wanting candy at the check out stand
26 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 4/30/2024 11:06:55 PM (No. 1709487)
Brings to mind the story of the frog and scorpion.
34 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
ironchefw 4/30/2024 11:09:20 PM (No. 1709488)
What kind of "negotiation" is that?
Palestinians do what Hamas tells them which is what Iran tells Hamas it wants.
Ivory tower academics with their heads in the sand.
49 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Northcross 4/30/2024 11:41:46 PM (No. 1709497)
Another formerly prestigious American university bites the dust. Take note employers, alumni donors, and prospective students and parents.
48 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
smokincol 4/30/2024 11:52:43 PM (No. 1709505)
capitulation is a sign of weakness and capitulating to terrorists is the highest form of weakness but, then again, no one ever said college administrators ever had any degree of courage, except when their intended target is a white person
41 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
jimincalif 5/1/2024 12:56:03 AM (No. 1709531)
“ Palestinian academics”???? Bombology maybe?
32 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
FJB 2022 23 24 5/1/2024 2:41:58 AM (No. 1709547)
BIG mistake! Now they've got you for sure, it will only be the beginning!
23 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 5/1/2024 4:21:49 AM (No. 1709567)
The only "deal" I'd cut with them would be pack your $hit. If not, we're coming through and kicking your @$$.
31 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
bpl40 5/1/2024 4:34:44 AM (No. 1709572)
Gets the Neville Chamberlain award for craven appeasement.
39 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
mifla 5/1/2024 4:35:42 AM (No. 1709575)
And next semester, there will another list of demands.
28 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Trigger2 5/1/2024 4:50:29 AM (No. 1709589)
So, they're going to use all that donated money in their endowments to fund palistinians? What a waste of money.
18 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rinktum 5/1/2024 5:40:32 AM (No. 1709604)
Yeah, that’s the ticket. Reward bad behavior. Personally, we need less Palestinian students and Palestinians in this country. Do not incentivize them to come here. After all, they hate us, and frankly, that feeling is reciprocated.
35 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
planetgeo 5/1/2024 5:41:57 AM (No. 1709606)
So basically, surrender and permanent, paid-for imbedding of Palestinian students and professors into the university. Brilliant.
25 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
sunnyday 5/1/2024 6:07:55 AM (No. 1709611)
I'm still trying to find Palestine on a map.
27 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/1/2024 6:24:57 AM (No. 1709629)
Dang. Columbia protesters rioted at the wrong school. Let's bribe the animals and hope they don't bite us. Northwestern president is a weenie.
17 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Californian 5/1/2024 6:56:43 AM (No. 1709645)
Fire whomever made that horrible decision and hire adults to run the school.
19 people like this.
That is like a bank under siege giving the criminals jobs as tellers to stop the standoff. Insanity abounds!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/1/2024 7:05:07 AM (No. 1709651)
Oh wait... shouldn't you first define, "Palestinian?" That's sorta like, "Assaul Weapons Ban," it sounds good in a sound bite, but what exactly is it?
9 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
privateer 5/1/2024 7:16:53 AM (No. 1709655)
The Wildcats are now the Weasels. And Schill is the perfect name for their cowardly president. Can't wait to see the list of big donors who 'divest'.
9 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 5/1/2024 7:34:39 AM (No. 1709668)
Is there a GPA they have to maintain?
5 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/1/2024 8:19:22 AM (No. 1709689)
What else would you expect from a university which sits on the edge of Chicongo?
8 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/1/2024 8:52:47 AM (No. 1709705)
Any Jew that goes to Northwestern after this deal is getting on the train to Dachau without a whimper.
13 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
nwcudagal 5/1/2024 9:11:20 AM (No. 1709713)
Another example of "educated stupid".
5 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
smokincol 5/1/2024 9:15:41 AM (No. 1709720)
selling your souls to the muslims ... this cannot end well
7 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 5/1/2024 9:17:57 AM (No. 1709723)
They might get a scholarship, but no jobs available for mouthy trouble makers.
5 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
Krause 5/1/2024 9:27:22 AM (No. 1709737)
Looks like a Biden/Blinken deal.
9 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
marbles 5/1/2024 9:49:16 AM (No. 1709752)
Remember what Chamberlain did with adolf ( peace in our time ) and how well it worked out for Europe ? You don't deal with bullies. Not ever.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
jdano 5/1/2024 9:50:04 AM (No. 1709754)
Jihad at work. I bet entire college becomes radical Islamic.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Zigrid 5/1/2024 10:05:56 AM (No. 1709765)
Here's what could go wrong...poster #1...I'm a Northwestern alum...and so was my darling hubby...so no more "donations" to Kellogg Business School...or Medill Journalism School...NadaHHH...and that goes for all my children who are alumni....that's what could go wrong poster #1....
11 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
Trapper 5/1/2024 10:49:36 AM (No. 1709797)
Northwestern students and administration should both be commended. This is how it is supposed to work. Form a protest, make your demands, find common ground, negotiate a deal that actuallly benefits someone, then move on. While Columbia and UCLA students were fighting in the streets and getting arrested last evening, Northwestern students were studying for finals and prepararing for graduation, with no significant damage and no arrests to show for their protest. Well done.
Oh, and for those who just hate to see something come of this, that's 5 scholarships out of an enrollment of 22,000, and 2 visting professors in a faculty of 3,300. And for those who think that is a pittance, it is more than Columbia or UCLA students have to show for their actions this morning. Again, well done Northwestern!
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Kate318 5/1/2024 10:57:42 AM (No. 1709810)
Congratulations, Northwestern, on being the first US university to establish a caliphate. You should be so very proud. You will need to figure out what do do with your female and LGTBQ+ students, however, as they will not fare well under your new Islamic state. But, best of luck to you!
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
BL1957 5/1/2024 11:00:10 AM (No. 1709814)
Negotiating with terrorists...how nice.
9 people like this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
AltaD 5/1/2024 11:00:44 AM (No. 1709816)
Is it too late for Patrick Ryan and family to rescind their massive financial gift to NU? I'd love to see not only the funds earmarked for actual research but also the funds for the new Ryan Field stadium pulled from Hamas NU.
6 people like this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
dwa 5/1/2024 11:03:41 AM (No. 1709823)
Stupidity is great in this one.
4 people like this.
Reply 38 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 5/1/2024 11:17:43 AM (No. 1709845)
The inmates are running the asylum! What could go wrong?
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 5/1/2024 12:26:00 PM (No. 1709898)
"We don't negotiate with terrorists......
.
.
We FUND them."
5 people like this.
Reply 40 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/1/2024 12:41:50 PM (No. 1709903)
NW, you just sold your souls. Expect more rioting in the near future.
4 people like this.
Reply 41 - Posted by:
danu 5/1/2024 1:50:04 PM (No. 1709953)
it's so good to know that the 'elitist marxian madpersons' running these pricey cathouses
aren't hating whities in america...they hate whities in europe too.
penguins in antarctica are black And white. how to import and radicalise them?
expect a white paper soon.
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Northwestern gets an F for pandering to Palestinian grievance-mongers. Where are the scholarships offered by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar?
2 people like this.
Reply 43 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 5/1/2024 4:00:20 PM (No. 1710058)
The results of this will be interesting, and predictable. Just remember, paying students, where a part of your tuition is going.
1 person likes this.
Reply 44 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 5/1/2024 5:47:31 PM (No. 1710126)
Northwestern doubles down on stupid.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Omen55 5/1/2024 5:48:59 PM (No. 1710127)
A good lawyer could sue.
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