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@sfmcguire79 @Columbia is the only one left.

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@NizNellie3 What makes you think they are Chinese nationals as opposed to American of ethnic Chinese heritage? Or those of other ethnic heritage, say Koreans?

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@DocGrawitch @sfmcguire79 https://t.co/SRRZc4w3Xd

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@ColumbiaSpec (🧵 5/8) October 10, 2024 stated as fact by the News Desk

https://t.co/1WA2HtbYcW

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@JeffreyLax They are basing this on a folk memory from when medieval universities *were* semi-sovereign bodies exempt from secular laws (Toswell 2017).

https://t.co/lKuY3z93k3

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@ColumbiaSpec (🧵 8/8) Your move, @ColumbiaSpec.

Correct long-running factual misrepresentations that took a legal opinion from Sullivan & Cromwell @sullcrom costing tens of thousands of dollars to state the obvious and debunk, or continue peddling misinformation?

https://t.co/HMeuXGyACO

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(🧵 1/8) The @ColumbiaSpec has finally confirmed what is obvious to anyone with a basic understanding of corporate law.

The University Senate's imaginative "three branches" theory of shared governance is illegitimate (and flat-out false) overreach.

https://t.co/f5G0I9zAmY

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@ColumbiaSpec (🧵 7/8) For the record, we agree with much of the substantive views advanced.

We simply disagree with presenting flat-out lies as fact, and declining to correct the record or add appropriate context when notified.

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@Columbia @sullcrom @CUSenate @ColumbiaSpec @j34bsrisbd6f @jrslaugh ADDENDUM: It has since been pointed out to us that the Senate’s “Sundial Report” (cited above) has in fact been thoroughly discredited with hundreds of documented errors:
https://t.co/U4iSX7CkIj

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Yesterday, @Columbia just released its Senate Review Committee Report.

Most coverage will focus on the recommendations. The bombshell is buried in Appendix R: a Sullivan & Cromwell @sullcrom legal opinion.

What it says, and why it matters. (🧵 1/20)

https://t.co/HMeuXGyACO

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@Columbia @sullcrom @CUSenate @ColumbiaSpec @j34bsrisbd6f @jrslaugh (🧵 20/20) What is at issue is the assertion of these preferences AS *FACTS* about @Columbia's existing governance. Charter, Statutes, NY law, and counsel all say otherwise.

Go ahead and argue for what governance *should* be.

You are not entitled to misrepresent what it *is*.