This also feels like a missed opportunity to me. The world in general could use more good troublemakers, not fewer.

It’s not at all surprising to me that the students here did kind of a dumbass, ham fisted job of things. Youth led movements make a lot of dumb mistakes and struggle to handle complex issues, even the ones that bring about big changes for the better (see, say, SNCC).

So that doesn’t bother me - it’s not fair to expect activism to be the only activity on earth that doesn’t come with a learning curve.

Penn should be thinking about what it can do to better train up these students, not just to get them to knock it off.