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Brown University President Caves to Palestinian Hecklers

Brown University president Christina Paxson spoke at a vigil for Hisham Awartani, a Palestinian student at Brown wounded in a shooting in Vermont last week, which authorities are investigating as a possible hate crime. Hecklers stopped her speech, calling for the school to cut off its investments in companies linked with Israel, National Review reported. Just after protesters cut her off, Paxson was supposed to say that "every student, faculty, and staff member should be able to proudly wear a Star of David or don a keffiyeh on the Brown campus, or to cover their head with a hijab or yarmulke," according to the prepared remarks on her office's website.  

After she admonished the students for their interruption, however, Paxton delivered the line without the references to the Star of David and yarmulke, video shows.  "Let me tell you how I was gonna end this," she said, "which was—I was gonna say that at a faculty meeting last month, I said that 'every student, faculty, and staff member should be able to proudly don a keffiyeh on the Brown campus, or to cover their head with a hijab.'" 

She then attempted to deliver a few lines later in the speech, claiming that "Brown is a strong and loving community" before the students cut her off, causing her to leave the stage.  A university spokesman told National Review that Paxson "abbreviated" her remarks hoping that she would be able to finish her speech.

Yale: 52% A Grades in Economics and 92% in History of Science

Salaries of Fine Arts Majors Do Not Catch Up

Net PV at Age 20 by Men's College Major (4% Discount Rate)

Based on Survey of Income and Program Participation

Sociol Educ. 2015 Oct; 88(4): 320–339.

Published online 2015 Sep 4. doi: 10.1177/0038040715602132

PMCID: PMC5198720

NIHMSID: NIHMS838113

PMID: 28042177

Field of Study in College and Lifetime Earnings in the United States

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