Many of them are future commissioned officers in the U.S. Military. They are also student journalists. And before ever taking the battlefield, they are already fighting for First Amendment principles.
As the situation on Columbia’s campus deteriorated earlier this year, the university’s then-president consulted with powerful politicians about the bad optics of the protests.
Administrators postponed an event featuring Simon Amaya Price, who once identified as transgender but later reconnected with their biological sex, following backlash from campus community.