"Arrr, this landlubber Marcellus Wiley be talkin' bout student protests. He be mighty disgusted, says I!"
2024-05-04
Avast ye landlubbers! The scallywags be raisin' a ruckus at the colleges o'er the Israel-Hamas squabble! The young buccaneers be makin' a fuss after the nabbin' o' some troublemakers at Columbia University. Aye, the seas be choppy with protestin' pirates! Arrr!
In the language of a 17th-century pirate, former NFL defensive end Marcellus Wiley be sayin' he be "disgusted" by the events happenin' at Columbia University, where he played college football. He recently joined Dan Dakich on OutKick's "Don't @ Me" to address the ongoing protests at the Ivy League university, arguin' that protestin' be not the "end all be all." Wiley be sayin' that students need to be takin' other steps beyond protestin' and that their actions could be affectin' their future.He be pointin' to Stanford University's approach to student protests as a better way to handle the situation at Columbia. Some students at Stanford be creatin' encampments to protest, but the university be takin' swift action to enforce policies against overnight camping on campus. Protest organizers be criticizin' the university's response to the protests.Wiley also be lamentin' the damage to Columbia's reputation caused by the protests, believin' that the university must rebound from the negative impact. He be drawin' on his own experiences as a Buffalo Bills player drafted out of Columbia in 1997 to emphasize the importance of maintainin' a good academic reputation.