Columbia University has canceled this year’s main commencement ceremony days after calling on New York City police to arrest dozens of students and faculty participating in pro-Palestinian protests.
“We have decided to make the centerpiece of our Commencement activities our Class Days and school-level ceremonies, where students are honored individually alongside their peers, rather than the University-wide ceremony that is scheduled for May 15,” the university wrote in an announcement posted Monday morning.
“Our students emphasized that these smaller-scale, school-based celebrations are most meaningful to them and their families. They...
“We have decided to make the centerpiece of our Commencement activities our Class Days and school-level ceremonies, where students are honored individually alongside their peers, rather than the University-wide ceremony that is scheduled for May 15,” the university wrote in an announcement posted Monday morning.
“Our students emphasized that these smaller-scale, school-based celebrations are most meaningful to them and their families. They...
- 5/6/2024
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
On Tuesday night, Columbia University president Nemat Shafik called upon the Strategic Response Group of the New York Police Department (NYPD) to clear protesters who had occupied a campus building.
The action followed New York Mayor Eric Adams‘ assertion that the protests had been “co-opted” and his warning to Columbia students to leave “before the situation escalates.” Subsequently, over 100 police officers swept the campus and arrested nonviolent student protesters for the second time in as many weeks.
The officers forcibly dragged students from Hamilton Hall, the briefly occupied building and witnesses said that the officers entered the premises with drawn guns and deployed tear gas in the raid, which resulted in at least one student’s loss of consciousness. Shafik has also requested that the NYPD maintain a presence on campus until at least May 17, two days after this year’s commencement ceremony.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry...
The action followed New York Mayor Eric Adams‘ assertion that the protests had been “co-opted” and his warning to Columbia students to leave “before the situation escalates.” Subsequently, over 100 police officers swept the campus and arrested nonviolent student protesters for the second time in as many weeks.
The officers forcibly dragged students from Hamilton Hall, the briefly occupied building and witnesses said that the officers entered the premises with drawn guns and deployed tear gas in the raid, which resulted in at least one student’s loss of consciousness. Shafik has also requested that the NYPD maintain a presence on campus until at least May 17, two days after this year’s commencement ceremony.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry...
- 5/2/2024
- by Baila Eve Zisman
- Uinterview
Annette Insdorf is synonymous with Columbia University, at which she has been a film professor since 1987 and served as director of undergraduate film studies for decades. A former translator for François Truffaut, she is also the longtime moderator of the 92nd Street Y’s “Reel Pieces” series, the author of numerous important books on film (most notably Indelible Shadows: Film and Holocaust) and a regular presence at film festivals like Cannes and Telluride.
Insdorf agreed to share with The Hollywood Reporter her perspective about recent unrest on Columbia’s campus over the Israel-Gaza conflict, which in the last 24 hours resulted in the NYPD raiding Hamilton Hall (which had been occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters), resulting in many arrests.
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Things have indeed been tense on Columbia University’s campus, but I’m trying to keep a sane perspective. Since the number of protesters is a tiny fraction of the student population, I...
Insdorf agreed to share with The Hollywood Reporter her perspective about recent unrest on Columbia’s campus over the Israel-Gaza conflict, which in the last 24 hours resulted in the NYPD raiding Hamilton Hall (which had been occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters), resulting in many arrests.
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Things have indeed been tense on Columbia University’s campus, but I’m trying to keep a sane perspective. Since the number of protesters is a tiny fraction of the student population, I...
- 5/2/2024
- by Annette Insdorf
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New York — Linnea Norton spent Sunday at Columbia University jamming on the guitar with other students — a drummer and a cohort of harmonizing singers. They played Appalachian folk music and protest songs by Bob Dylan and John Lennon. The encampment smelled like sunscreen, and students kicked a soccer ball after a teach-in about imperialism. Some had brought their young children.
A Columbia Ph.D. student, Norton was one of the student activists who were arrested early on in the encampment. She remembered the vote that activists took as they decided...
A Columbia Ph.D. student, Norton was one of the student activists who were arrested early on in the encampment. She remembered the vote that activists took as they decided...
- 5/2/2024
- by Anna Oakes and Claudia Gohn
- Rollingstone.com
Some startling rumors emerged shortly after New York Police Department officers — clad in what looked like every piece of riot gear available to the department — stormed Columbia University to forcibly remove and arrest student protesters occupying a campus building.
These weren’t students; these were professional agitators. These skilled infiltrators had used industrial chains to barricade the doors of Hamilton Hall. Even worse, one of the protesters was the wife of a known terror suspect.
The claims were at best misleading and at worst outright false — but that didn’t stop law enforcement,...
These weren’t students; these were professional agitators. These skilled infiltrators had used industrial chains to barricade the doors of Hamilton Hall. Even worse, one of the protesters was the wife of a known terror suspect.
The claims were at best misleading and at worst outright false — but that didn’t stop law enforcement,...
- 5/1/2024
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
A large group of pro-Israel protesters attacked students at a Gaza Solidarity Encampment established at the University of California, Los Angeles, campus late Tuesday night. The escalation in violence against protesters at the California school took place as battalions of law enforcement raided Columbia University and the City College of New York on Tuesday night, arresting pro-Palestinian protesters en masse and clearing encampments established at both schools.
The aggression against demonstrators — in Los Angeles, New York, and across the nation — has only grown the protest movement, which shows no signs of abating.
The aggression against demonstrators — in Los Angeles, New York, and across the nation — has only grown the protest movement, which shows no signs of abating.
- 5/1/2024
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
On Tuesday, leadership at Columbia University called in the New York City Police Department to break up student protests demanding the university divest from Israel amid its ongoing siege in Gaza, which has led to the deaths of more than 34,000 Palestinians. Protestors were seen being arrested by law enforcement, zip-tied, and loaded onto buses that drove away from campus.
Pro-Palestine student protesters have led an encampment at Columbia for two weeks. This is the second time that the university has called in the NYPD to clear the encampment. Police were...
Pro-Palestine student protesters have led an encampment at Columbia for two weeks. This is the second time that the university has called in the NYPD to clear the encampment. Police were...
- 5/1/2024
- by Charisma Madarang and Andrew Perez
- Rollingstone.com
Donald Trump doubled down on his assertions that student protests against Israel’s ongoing military offensive in Gaza are exponentially worse than the deadly 2017 neo-Nazi rallies held in Charlottesville, Virginia.
In statements given to reporters gathered at Manhattan criminal court — where he is currently standing trial — Trump said that if President Joe Biden “ran because of Charlottesville […] Charlottesville is peanuts compared to what you’re looking at now,” the former president said, echoing a similar claim he made last week. Trump also took the opportunity to repeat his claim that...
In statements given to reporters gathered at Manhattan criminal court — where he is currently standing trial — Trump said that if President Joe Biden “ran because of Charlottesville […] Charlottesville is peanuts compared to what you’re looking at now,” the former president said, echoing a similar claim he made last week. Trump also took the opportunity to repeat his claim that...
- 4/30/2024
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
Columbia University has begun to suspend students who have not left a Gaza Solidarity Encampment at the school on Monday. The university announced that students who remained and refused to sign a “form committing to abide” to its policies would be “placed on suspension, ineligible to complete the semester or graduate, and will be restricted from all academic, residential, and recreational spaces.”
Earlier on Monday, hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University surrounded the encampment as administrators threatened to suspend and evict participating students. University President Nemat Shafik sent an...
Earlier on Monday, hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University surrounded the encampment as administrators threatened to suspend and evict participating students. University President Nemat Shafik sent an...
- 4/29/2024
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez and Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
House Speaker Mike Johnson gave a speech about the antisemitism present at Columbia University, which was met with boos and heckling from pro-Palestinian protesters in the crowd.
Johnson delivered a stern message on the university’s campus for school administrators and protesters after days of anti-war demonstrations, arrests and campus closures at colleges across the United States.
A spokesperson from Johnson’s office stated that Johnson wanted to speak to Columbia students because he believed that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) had not done enough to keep them safe.
“Today, I’m here to proclaim, for all those who gnash their teeth and demand to wipe the state of Israel off the map and attack our innocent Jewish students, this simple truth: neither Israel nor these Jewish students on this campus – this campus will stand alone,” the House speaker declared during his speech.
“Today, Hamas issued an endorsement of the protesters on this campus,...
Johnson delivered a stern message on the university’s campus for school administrators and protesters after days of anti-war demonstrations, arrests and campus closures at colleges across the United States.
A spokesperson from Johnson’s office stated that Johnson wanted to speak to Columbia students because he believed that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) had not done enough to keep them safe.
“Today, I’m here to proclaim, for all those who gnash their teeth and demand to wipe the state of Israel off the map and attack our innocent Jewish students, this simple truth: neither Israel nor these Jewish students on this campus – this campus will stand alone,” the House speaker declared during his speech.
“Today, Hamas issued an endorsement of the protesters on this campus,...
- 4/27/2024
- by Alessio Atria
- Uinterview
Self-avowed pro-First Amendment, anti-government repression Senators Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) are demanding President Joe Biden unleash the full force of the state’s National Guard to suppress pro-Palestinian student protests at Columbia University.
“If [New York City Mayor] Eric Adams won’t send the NYPD and [New York Governor] Kathy Hochul won’t send the National Guard, Joe Biden has a duty to take charge and break up these mobs,” Cotton wrote Monday on X, formerly Twitter, describing the protests as “nascent pogroms” against Jews — invoking the term used to describe historic massacres against Jewish communities.
“If [New York City Mayor] Eric Adams won’t send the NYPD and [New York Governor] Kathy Hochul won’t send the National Guard, Joe Biden has a duty to take charge and break up these mobs,” Cotton wrote Monday on X, formerly Twitter, describing the protests as “nascent pogroms” against Jews — invoking the term used to describe historic massacres against Jewish communities.
- 4/22/2024
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
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