One may say we came face-to-face with evil. Two months ago, a Cornell student named Patrick Dai claimed he would bring an “assault rifle to campus and shoot all you pig jews.” His vile anti-Semitic threats were so serious that New York Governor Kathy Hochul and the FBI came to campus. Dai will now, in turn, come face-to-face with the law.
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David M. Johnson
David M. Johnson is an undergraduate student at Cornell University studying engineering physics. He is the senior editor of Claritas, an on-campus journal of Christian thought, and he spends his free time reading, running, and rock climbing.