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QueensOwn [S] 1 point ago +1 / -0

LOL... students are encouraged to not go home and have a “virtual” Thanksgiving or face the consequences. I wouldn’t have even believed shit like this is real but here we are.

Interesting I don’t think Columbia University is teaming with young conservative Republicans yet 70 went on vacation to Turks and Caicos! Now they are banned from campus until 12/1. Ah, the hypocrisy.

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Mrs_Fonebone -2 points ago +1 / -3

You can;t have a compact unless both parties agree. Also, in it's most technical form, it applies to agreements between two STATES, which requires federal approval. Compacts don't seem to exist legally between a State and its citizens--that would be a law.

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QueensOwn [S] 1 point ago +1 / -0

So your saying Columbia Business School is making up imaginary compacts? Or they (word compact is in the article) are making it up?

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Mrs_Fonebone -2 points ago +1 / -3

It means the word is being used incorrectly. Students have "contracts" with Universities--housing, food etc. It would be interesting to see what legal force they can provide. At the University of Virginia, which is famous for its "Honor Code" they are threatening to drag students before the Student Judicial System for breaking lockdown BS. Which the students have been doing, i.e. usual big parties etc. So yeah, that's all they can do--unless the students at Columbia specifically signed an agreement of some kind.

Also, look up the definition yourself; it's easy to do, if you still don't believe this.

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QueensOwn [S] 2 points ago +2 / -0

No you have me wrong. I am not disagreeing with you. I am just pointing out the insanity. No such “compact” exists. They are trying to assert control over students which they don’t have. I believe any student who goes home during a break in classes is fully within there rights. You don’t want them back on campus then refund the tuition. They have NO right to tell any free American when and where they may travel on there own time. It’s outrageous.

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Mrs_Fonebone -1 points ago +2 / -3

I see now.l I wasn't sure, and I certainly don't expect people to just take my word for things. As far as I know, no students or student groups have challenged this legally. Laws and campuses have a very uneasy relationship, with the latter being in loco parentis, having a kind of half-assed supervision, as parents would. But they've also deprived students of due process. One good thing that will come out of the great liberal fail is that colleges and universities are shrinking in size and funding and will no doubt get a drastic overhaul.