Q&A
Debate on consequences for rule violations at CUNY
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Council Member Kalman Yeger and Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez engage in a heated discussion about the potential consequences for rule violations at CUNY, particularly focusing on the proposed face covering ban.
- Rodriguez expresses doubt about the effectiveness of a face covering ban
- Yeger argues that strict consequences, including expulsion or termination, would ensure compliance
- They debate the authority and effectiveness of CUNY's public safety officers
- Yeger emphasizes the need for clear rules and consequences to address disruptive behavior on campus
Felix Matos Rodriguez
2:46:50
don't know that the rule will stop the behavior.
Azriel Genack
2:46:51
Short thing.
Kalman Yeger
2:46:52
You know why?
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Because may may I may I answer the clock is going and the chair is getting antsy at me.
2:46:57
So, the if of course, it would stop the behavior, because the follow-up to that is you do it, you violated the rule, and as vice chancellor said earlier, it's a privilege to be on the campus.
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You're out of here.
2:47:11
No more coming back on the campus.
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You're expelled from the school.
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If you're a professor, if you're a teacher, if you're a custodian, if you are what you are, you are you no longer have employment here, you're gone.
2:47:23
That would be the consequence.
Felix Matos Rodriguez
2:47:25
And if you're misbehaving and you're wearing a mask or wearing a cap or whatever it is, we have the mechanisms to be able
Kalman Yeger
2:47:31
to hold on.
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Mechanism is a guy with 0 authority walks up in the east and says, do you have one of those plastic cars they gave you at orientation?
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The guy says, I got it right here.
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And he says, okay.
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Great.
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No problem.
Felix Matos Rodriguez
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With with with all due respect, our public safety officers take their job very seriously.
Kalman Yeger
2:47:46
I'm sure they do,
Felix Matos Rodriguez
2:47:47
but they're not but students are crossing the line.
Kalman Yeger
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But They take
Felix Matos Rodriguez
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the appropriate action.
Kalman Yeger
2:47:52
With without without hearing that any of these guys, students are being expelled from these campuses to keep safe the remainder of the CUNY family, there's no assurance that any of that ask for the card means anything.
2:48:07
Just, you know, the the the concept of of of creating these rules within the guide of Henderson by the way, there's no question that Henderson would allow you to make such a rule.
2:48:22
You just have to make the rule so people know people have to know what rule they're violating.
2:48:26
Right now, when they walk around wearing masks, they're just violating the rules of society where you shouldn't look like an idiot in public.
2:48:32
But they're not violating anything else until you say, on my campus, you can't dress like that.
2:48:38
And then if they do it, you throw them out.
2:48:40
That solves the problem, and that removes an element of, as my colleague calls the junior jihadis, from being in the presence of normal society calling for the death and destruction of Jewish people.
2:48:52
And it would be good for the for CUNY to do that because it's a $4,200,000,000 enterprise predominantly paid for by the taxpayers, not by student tuition.
