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(00:00):
Great to have Aaron Rayale back onhere NBC Radio National corresponding with the lunatics
running rampant on these campuses and thenumbers that focus. Aaron Good Morning has
been on Yale and Columbia. Butnow it's spreading right, Oh, for
sure, it's spreading at a prettyrapid rate too. We are seeing arrests
(00:20):
all over the country, frankly atdifferent campuses, Columbia being in the hot
spot. And this is as classesmoved remotely Monday with the start of Passover,
one of the high holy holidays inthe Jewish calendar, that started Monday.
It's going on all week and it'sleft a lot of Jewish students steering
for their safety. Amidst these proPalestinian protests. At Yale, we saw
(00:43):
almost fifty protesters arrested they defied ordersto leave. Similar story at NYU,
MIT, Michigan, Tough UNC.This is happening all over university and Maryland.
The list goes on and on andon, and what it's done is
is put administrators in this very difficultrole. And at some schools they've really
to diffuse these protests, but theyalso really need to balance free speech rights
(01:03):
and the fears of a lot ofJewish students, many of whom say that
these demonstrations have veered into anti semitism, blatant anti semitism. Who are they?
Who are these people? Is thisthe standard? I don't want to
call them Nazis, but I meanthis kind of anti semitism? Is this
a standard like antifa, BLM.Whatever the cause of the day is,
(01:26):
they're going to be out there protesting. That's a great question. And actually
I want to bring up the oneat Columbia because this has been kind of
the hotbed. A lot has beenseen where we've been talking about Columbia's president
Chafique. She's only been in arole as president for less than a year,
but she's she's trying to de escalatethe ranker and she wants to consider
her next steps because she doesn't wantany child to be in danger, any
(01:49):
students. So they had moved classesonline. But that says a lot that
you have to move classes online virtualbecause it's so dangerous on campus. But
I bring this up because organizers ofthe campus protests at Columbia, it's the
Columbia University Apartheid, divest and Columbiastudents for Justice and Palestine. They put
out a statement and they said thatwe have been peaceful, and they really
want to distance themselves from these nonstudent protesters who have gathered outside the campus.
(02:15):
They say that they are inflammatory andthat they don't represent this, you
know, forged alliance among Palestinians andMuslims and Arabs and Jews and Blacks and
all these Palestinian classmates and colleagues thatthey say represent the full diversity of our
country, while a lot of thesegroups are anti Semitics that are gathering outside
of the student groups. Yeah,well that's dangerous. They've gone They've gone
(02:38):
online. Now for the remainder ofthe semester. Right is that Columbia that
I don't believe. Thank you forbringing that up. It's unclear today.
I have reached out to Columbia University. I have been following up with their
press department, their media department.I think that it depends on your particular
class schedule and courseload. It hasn'tbeen said blanket statement we're going all online.
(03:00):
But this has been dying down.In fact, it's increasing. I
was downtown yesterday. The iHeart studiosare in Midtown, but I went downtown
to check out the NYU protest andcover that a little. And what I
saw was that the difference between NYUand Colombia is Colombia is more like a
traditional campus environment where it's kind ofcontained like a campus seal, where NYU
(03:23):
it's very glory between what's an NYUbuilding and what city property. Like Washington
Square Park always feels like NYU tome, but it's Washington Square Park and
there's tents all over, a lotof tents. And we've been seeing protests
for pro Palestinian protests like basically formonths now throughout New York. This is
(03:43):
not anything new, but I wasreally taken aback by the amount of tents
that were set up because it doesbecome quite obstructive. And then beyond that,
it isn't clear who is a studentand who is not, and what
is campus sanctioned and what is not. Yeah, and they don't want the
police in there, right They said, well, we'll call you if we
need you. And these are partI have. Yeah, they actually like
(04:05):
all of these universities because let's bearin mind, these are private institutions.
They have a right to say no, you can't do this here. But
they it is. It's college campusis always going to be Protestant. That's
one of the things you do atcollege. It's part of the process.
So they don't want to shut itdown completely. But at the same time,
there is a there is a tippingpoint, and when students feel scared
(04:25):
to go to class, that's atipping point. Yeah, no doubt.
On another matter, quickly, aerinthe US dollar is gaining ground against other
currencies. I assume there's a goodnews for Americans traveling. Right, Yes,
it is very good news for Americanstraveling, but not necessarily good news
if you were hoping for interest ratesto drop anytime soon. Basically, what
(04:46):
this does, we've seem that thedollar has really gained against other currencies in
terms of strength, actually six ofits peers. There's this index that tracks
them. It's its highest level sinceNovember. And that's because we're seeing a
lot of geopolitic coul shocks. Andwhen there are geopolitical shocks, there is
a flight to safe have an assets, of which the dollar is chief among
(05:06):
them. So you continue to havethese incidents in the Middle East, those
shocks are going to cause spikes andenergy prices, and those have a much
bigger effect on Europe and Japan andnot so much US because we are more
energy independent. But ultimately, whatthis does, it's great if you're you
know, let's be traveling to Italy. Yeah, your your dollar is going
(05:27):
to go much further. But ifit's such a weird economy in which we're
living right now, because you havefolks jumping on a plane to Italy and
then other folks who can't put foodon the table, it's like, well,
you're not going to go buy yourgroceries in Italy, like we need.
We need the prices of the grocerystore to come down, no doubt,
no doubt. Very good, Aaron. Thanks Aaron Rayale, NBC Radio
Okay Babe's Morning News
Great to have Aaron Rayale back onhere NBC Radio National corresponding with the lunatics
running rampant on these campuses and thenumbers that focus. Aaron Good Morning has
been on Yale and Columbia. Butnow it's spreading right, Oh, for
sure, it's spreading at a prettyrapid rate too. We are seeing arrests
(00:20):
all over the country, frankly atdifferent campuses, Columbia being in the hot
spot. And this is as classesmoved remotely Monday with the start of Passover,
one of the high holy holidays inthe Jewish calendar, that started Monday.
It's going on all week and it'sleft a lot of Jewish students steering
for their safety. Amidst these proPalestinian protests. At Yale, we saw
(00:43):
almost fifty protesters arrested they defied ordersto leave. Similar story at NYU,
MIT, Michigan, Tough UNC.This is happening all over university and Maryland.
The list goes on and on andon, and what it's done is
is put administrators in this very difficultrole. And at some schools they've really
to diffuse these protests, but theyalso really need to balance free speech rights
(01:03):
and the fears of a lot ofJewish students, many of whom say that
these demonstrations have veered into anti semitism, blatant anti semitism. Who are they?
Who are these people? Is thisthe standard? I don't want to
call them Nazis, but I meanthis kind of anti semitism? Is this
a standard like antifa, BLM.Whatever the cause of the day is,
(01:26):
they're going to be out there protesting. That's a great question. And actually
I want to bring up the oneat Columbia because this has been kind of
the hotbed. A lot has beenseen where we've been talking about Columbia's president
Chafique. She's only been in arole as president for less than a year,
but she's she's trying to de escalatethe ranker and she wants to consider
her next steps because she doesn't wantany child to be in danger, any
(01:49):
students. So they had moved classesonline. But that says a lot that
you have to move classes online virtualbecause it's so dangerous on campus. But
I bring this up because organizers ofthe campus protests at Columbia, it's the
Columbia University Apartheid, divest and Columbiastudents for Justice and Palestine. They put
out a statement and they said thatwe have been peaceful, and they really
want to distance themselves from these nonstudent protesters who have gathered outside the campus.
(02:15):
They say that they are inflammatory andthat they don't represent this, you
know, forged alliance among Palestinians andMuslims and Arabs and Jews and Blacks and
all these Palestinian classmates and colleagues thatthey say represent the full diversity of our
country, while a lot of thesegroups are anti Semitics that are gathering outside
of the student groups. Yeah,well that's dangerous. They've gone They've gone
(02:38):
online. Now for the remainder ofthe semester. Right is that Columbia that
I don't believe. Thank you forbringing that up. It's unclear today.
I have reached out to Columbia University. I have been following up with their
press department, their media department.I think that it depends on your particular
class schedule and courseload. It hasn'tbeen said blanket statement we're going all online.
(03:00):
But this has been dying down.In fact, it's increasing. I
was downtown yesterday. The iHeart studiosare in Midtown, but I went downtown
to check out the NYU protest andcover that a little. And what I
saw was that the difference between NYUand Colombia is Colombia is more like a
traditional campus environment where it's kind ofcontained like a campus seal, where NYU
(03:23):
it's very glory between what's an NYUbuilding and what city property. Like Washington
Square Park always feels like NYU tome, but it's Washington Square Park and
there's tents all over, a lotof tents. And we've been seeing protests
for pro Palestinian protests like basically formonths now throughout New York. This is
(03:43):
not anything new, but I wasreally taken aback by the amount of tents
that were set up because it doesbecome quite obstructive. And then beyond that,
it isn't clear who is a studentand who is not, and what
is campus sanctioned and what is not. Yeah, and they don't want the
police in there, right They said, well, we'll call you if we
need you. And these are partI have. Yeah, they actually like
(04:05):
all of these universities because let's bearin mind, these are private institutions.
They have a right to say no, you can't do this here. But
they it is. It's college campusis always going to be Protestant. That's
one of the things you do atcollege. It's part of the process.
So they don't want to shut itdown completely. But at the same time,
there is a there is a tippingpoint, and when students feel scared
(04:25):
to go to class, that's atipping point. Yeah, no doubt.
On another matter, quickly, aerinthe US dollar is gaining ground against other
currencies. I assume there's a goodnews for Americans traveling. Right, Yes,
it is very good news for Americanstraveling, but not necessarily good news
if you were hoping for interest ratesto drop anytime soon. Basically, what
(04:46):
this does, we've seem that thedollar has really gained against other currencies in
terms of strength, actually six ofits peers. There's this index that tracks
them. It's its highest level sinceNovember. And that's because we're seeing a
lot of geopolitic coul shocks. Andwhen there are geopolitical shocks, there is
a flight to safe have an assets, of which the dollar is chief among
(05:06):
them. So you continue to havethese incidents in the Middle East, those
shocks are going to cause spikes andenergy prices, and those have a much
bigger effect on Europe and Japan andnot so much US because we are more
energy independent. But ultimately, whatthis does, it's great if you're you
know, let's be traveling to Italy. Yeah, your your dollar is going
(05:27):
to go much further. But ifit's such a weird economy in which we're
living right now, because you havefolks jumping on a plane to Italy and
then other folks who can't put foodon the table, it's like, well,
you're not going to go buy yourgroceries in Italy, like we need.
We need the prices of the grocerystore to come down, no doubt,
no doubt. Very good, Aaron. Thanks Aaron Rayale, NBC Radio
Okay Babe's Morning News
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