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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 ...
In a March 21 email to the Columbia community, former interim University President Katrina Armstrong announced that the University had sent a document detailing a list of planned administrative ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Former University President Lee Bollinger, Law ’71, discussed Immigration and Customs Enforcement detaining Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, campus antisemitism, and government pressure in a Tuesday ...
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 ...
Editor's Note: This op-ed was dictated by Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24. Spectator verified this with his Attorney Amy Greer and conducted its regular editing process. Khalil is currently detained at the ...
Hundreds of Columbia affiliates gathered Thursday afternoon on South Lawn to protest in response to the escalating violence in Israel and Gaza, with organizers from Students for Justice in Palestine ...
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.