The Washington Free Beacon notes this unlikely story with an Ivy League twist in the “additional reading” conclusion of its Morning Beacon newsletter:
Anti-Israel students at Cornell followed the university’s president, Michael Kotlikoff, to his car after a “debate over the war in Gaza” and surrounded it as he attempted to leave. Kotlikoff just kept on reversing, “brushing” into one student before his car “accelerates and bumps into the student,” as the New York Times put it. There may be hope for the Ivies after all.
The Beacon links to this News York Times story with the headline “Cornell President’s Car Bumps Into Students After Confrontation Over Gaza.” Subhead: “After a debate over the war, students say the university president hit them with his vehicle. He says he was the victim in the incident.” The story appears under two bylines with addtional reporting contributed by a third Times reporter.
I would add that Dartmouth College is the true hope of the Ivies under President Sian Leah Beilock. See Jonas Du’s terrific Free Press profile “Can Dartmouth save the Ivy League?” Subhead: “College president Sian Beilock had protesters arrested, defied faculty, and has said American universities lost their way. They can fix themselves, or ‘someone else will try and do it for us.’”
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