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Friends of Nayla’s circulated this flyer on Facebook
SEAS student Nayla Kidd, previously reported missing, has been found. According to an email from Public Safety Officer James McShane, she was “located by the NYPD and is safe.”
Kidd had last been seen on May 5th, and students became aware of her disappearance on May 12th after friends of hers began posting on Facebook in the hopes of locating her.
You can read the email below:
Dear All,
Columbia University student Nayla Kidd, previously reported missing, has been located by the NYPD and is safe. Thank you all for your support.
James F. McShane
Vice President for Public Safety
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@The Hard Truth This is exactly what Antonin Scalia meant when he said affirmative action hurts blacks. It’s unfair to put affirmative action students in an environment with Asians and Jews, etc. Merit students who have had to work ten times as hard to get into university and are thus, much more equipped academically leave students like Nayla in the dust. I’m sure Nayla was a decent student but affirmative action deceived her into creating an unrealistic expectation of her own abilities, far outpacing reality. So when she had to take courses with merit students she must have felt too out of place.
@fdsfsdf Wow
@YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2qz4BiMQsA
@Anonymous She needs to tell it like it is. Nayla wasn’t smart enough to make it at Columbia.
@Anonymous She couldn’t hack college. She was not prepared. She needs to be honest and admit that. She is not even honest with her mother, friends or professors
@Anonymous I also tried to fake my own kidnapping to get out of finals. It’s surprisingly difficult.
@Great! This is great news. Her family must be so relieved.
@Myron Crapp Crapp……………finals……………..finals…………….finals………….. darn that auto-correct.
@Myron Crapp They found the Kidd……….She probably didn’t want to do her finials.
@Anonymous it’s tru tho
@Anonymous Strangely enough, this was exactly the reason (she wrote an op-ed for the New York Post about it).
@Anonymous She just decided that she didn’t want to deal with all of her shit at Columbia, so she just left in an attempt to start a new life without telling one.
This was not only pretty stupid (did you not think that anyone would look for you?), but also incredibly selfish and inconsiderate (her mother and friends were worried sick).
Try to be a more responsible human being from now on, Nayla; if you were, you might have been successful here.
@Anonymous Nayla Kidd tries to attribute her poor academic performance to the educational environment of Columbia University, arguing that it lacks the intimate and supportive characteristics of high school academics.
Here’s the problem: College professors are not going to hold your hand and reach out to you on a daily basis to make sure that you’re keeping up like in high school. Nayla excelled in high school because the academic difficulty is relatively elementary and there is a much more intricate support system in place. This is obviously not the case in college.
In college (and especially at Columbia), only the truly brilliant and talented excel. Nayla simply wasn’t smart and gifted enough to excel at Columbia. Nayla can make all the excuses she wants about the academic environment at Columbia, but at the end of the day, she just wasn’t good enough; she understands this at a fundamental level and this is why she is dropping out.
Also, the method that she chose to escape from her life was incredibly selfish and inconsiderate (and frankly, very dim-witted): she left without telling her mother or any of her friends; how do you not know that the police will look for you if you go missing? Her inability to think ahead about the consequences of her behaviors is perfectly reflective of why she was unsuccessful at Columbia.
@Yes, see below. Nayla was a decent student but affirmative action deceived her into creating an unrealistic expectation of her own abilities, far outpacing reality.