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This is a developing story. Check back for updates. Updated on April 19 at 1:25 a.m. The New York Police Department arrested over 100 individuals after University President Minouche Shafik authorized ...
Dozens of protesters occupied Hamilton Hall at approximately 12:30 a.m. on April 30, demanding full University divestment from companies with ties to Israel. The protesters renamed Hamilton “Hind’s ...
As University President Minouche Shafik prepared to face Congress in a long-awaited hearing on antisemitism on Columbia’s campus on April 17, hundreds of Columbia students pitched tents on South Lawn, ...
A group of Jewish Barnard and Columbia students detained during Thursday’s New York Police Department sweep of the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” held a press conference on Tuesday to restate their ...
Tracking students’ every move at protests using CCTV footage and Columbia ID swipes. Hiring private investigators—who, on at least two occasions, questioned students outside their residences—and ...
Dozens of protesters staged a sit-in outside Barnard Dean Leslie Grinage’s office in Milbank Hall the afternoon of Wednesday calling for the “immediate reversal” of two student expulsions. The ...
The University expelled Grant Miner, president of the Student Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers, UAW announced in a Thursday news release. Miner is a Ph.D. student in the department of English ...
University President Minouche Shafik declined to testify at a Dec. 5 House Committee on Education & the Workforce hearing regarding on-campus antisemitism due to a scheduling conflict, a committee ...
Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, has been moved to a detention facility in Louisiana following his arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Sunday, according to the ICE database.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, on Sunday “in support of President Trump’s executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism,” Department of ...
The NYPD also tried to prevent protesters from standing in front of the 115th Street and Broadway gate to Columbia by setting up a barricade farther away from the gate before the start of the protest.
With tents and signs in hand, Columbia students set up a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on South Lawn around 4 a.m. on Wednesday, hours before University President Minouche Shafik began testifying in ...