Re: Columbia protesters take over building after defying deadline
"Dave S." <[email protected]>
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On 30 Apr 2024, Dawn Flood <[email protected]> posted some news:[email protected]: > On 4/30/2024 4:53 AM, lynching time wrote: >> Pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Columbia University have occupied an >> academic building as part of their protest over the war in Gaza. >> >> Dozens of activists seized Hamilton Hall early on Tuesday and >> barricaded themselves inside. >> >> The university and police are yet to comment. >> >> Columbia earlier began suspending students involved in a two-week >> encampment who defied a deadline to disperse. >> >> Students were warned they would face disciplinary action if they >> failed to move by 14:00 EST (18:00 GMT) on Monday. >> >> But as the deadline passed, dozens of students rallied at the site. >> >> Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), one of the main >> protest groups, vowed to defy the order in a post on X and called on >> activists to "protect the encampment". >> >> The group later said it had taken over Hamilton Hall, highlighting >> that this was also the focus of student protests in 1968. >> >> Images from the site on Tuesday show the building with broken >> windows. Protesters blocked doors with wooden tables and chairs, the >> Columbia Spectator reported. >> >> Another group, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), said it >> had "reclaimed" the building in honour of Hind Rajab, a six-year-old >> girl found dead in Gaza earlier this year. >> >> https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68923528 >> > > Dumb, dumb, dumb! > > They're all protesting over the ownership of future sea-bottom! They were dumb before they got to college. It's a waste of money sending those who aren't equipped. They belong in institutions, but not those of higher learning.