Columbia university articles
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Protests at Columbia University escalate
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. The balance of free speech rights while protecting Jewish students and faculty on campus is in the headlines today. “We need a reset” – were the words in a statement from Columbia University’s president this morning, as classes across the campus were made virtual for the day. The school says it’s in response to escalating […]
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We Columbia University students urge you to listen to our voices
Please, listen to us – not political figures, radical fringes and misguided mediaOn Tuesday night, we watched in horror as hundreds of riot police flooded our beloved campus and brutalized our classmates. The next day, students awoke with swollen faces, bruised wrists and lacerations – all results of inhumane police treatment. The past two weeks have been tumultuous, marked with mass arrests of student demonstrators, an encampment on our lawns, national media attention and vile acts of hatred....
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How the showdown at Columbia University between protesters and NYPD unfolded
The first sign that the weekslong standoff at Columbia University was nearing a dramatic finale came after dusk, when New York City police officers clad in riot gear began massing south of the east gate of the venerable Ivy League school. It was around 9 p.m. Tuesday and the pro-Palestinian protesters standing in front of the wrought-iron gate could see the police gathering, and they were defiant. “We will not move. We will not bend,” they chanted. “The occupation has to end.” The protests had...