Columbia University asked police Tuesday night to enter campus and clear out a building that protesters had overtaken and barricaded. CBS News correspondent Michael George has the latest on the fallout from the raid. May 1 03:55 Several college protests turn violent ...
more than 130 people were arrested on Monday night at a pro-Palestinian protest at New York University. At Yale University, at least 45 individuals were arrested and charged with trespassing on Monday after refusing to disperse from an on-campus protest.■ ...
Columbia University protesters refuse to leave Hamilton Hall Early Tuesday,groups of demonstrators forced their way into Hamilton Hall and locked themselves inside. Protesters smashed windows and doors to get into the building and then refused to leave.Furniture could be seen boarded against doors, ...
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik said the university "will not divest from Israel" on Monday morning. Protesters intend to remain at the building until Columbia University concedes to their demands on divestment from Israel, financial transparency on the university's investment as well as...
“Calling for the genocide of a people — whether they are Israelis or Palestinians, Jews, Muslims or anyone else — has no place in a university community,” Shafik wrote. “Such words are outside the bounds of legitimate debate and unimaginably harmful.” ...
Columbia University, major private institution of higher education in New York City that is one of the Ivy League schools. Founded in 1754 as King’s College, it was renamed Columbia College when it reopened in 1784 after the American Revolution and beca
Columbia University Apartheid Divest, which helped ignite the protest encampments at Columbia that sparked a pro-Palestine and anti-Israel movement on campuses across America, apologized on his behalf in April. James has sued the university to get his ban overturned. ...
California. Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters staged a demonstration in front of Sproul Hall on the UC Berkeley campus where they set up a tent encampment in solidarity with protesters at Columbia University who are demanding a permanent cease-fire...
prior to the deadline late Tuesday night as hundreds of people buzzed in and around the encampment. The university said student protesters had “committed to dismantling and removing a significant number of tents” and agreed that people not affiliated with the university wil...
Pro-Palestinian protests continue at major US universities, where several schools have called police on protesters, leading to the arrests of hundreds across the country. At New York’s Columbia University, the epicenter of the demonstrations, the school banned a student leader who said in Januar...