Anyway, where’s Dean Wormer when you need him?
Posted on 04/30/2024 12:34:30 PM PDT by Red Badger
Dozens of protesters began occupying the building at 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday, pledging to remain until the University meets their demands.
Student protesters occupying Hamilton Hall will face expulsion, University spokesperson Ben Chang wrote in a Tuesday press release.
“Protesters have chosen to escalate to an untenable situation – vandalizing property, breaking doors and windows, and blockading entrances – and we are following through with the consequences we outlined yesterday,” Chang wrote.
Dozens of protesters have occupied Hamilton Hall—which they renamed “Hind’s Hall,” in honor of Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian child killed by the Israeli military—since 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Upon entry, protesters sealed the building within five minutes, barricading entrances with wooden tables, chairs, and zip ties.
“We regret that protesters have chosen to escalate the situation through their actions,” Chang wrote. “Our top priority is restoring safety and order on our campus.”
Chang also stated that students who remain in the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” will face interim suspensions. Columbia began suspending students involved in the encampment on Monday, according to a University spokesperson. Suspended students do not have access to any University properties, including academic buildings and residence halls, and may not complete the semester nor graduate.
“As we said yesterday, disruptions on campus have created a threatening environment for many of our Jewish students and faculty and a noisy distraction that interferes with teaching, learning, and preparing for final exams, and contributes to a hostile environment in violation of Title VI,” Chang wrote.
The disciplinary action comes against the backdrop of the University’s ongoing Commencement preparations, as staff continues to set up bleachers on Low Plaza and tents on the lawns across south campus.
Columbia University Apartheid Divest identified the protesters occupying Hamilton Hall as an “autonomous group” in a Tuesday 2:07 a.m. press release posted on X.
In a Monday substack post, CUAD reaffirmed their demands for Columbia: divestment from companies with ties to Israel, financial transparency on direct and indirect holdings, and amnesty for all disciplined pro-Palestinian students.
“Admitted students day is over—commencement is on its way,” CUAD wrote in the post. “Let’s see how much of this campus we can reclaim by then!”
University News Editor Sarah Huddleston can be contacted at sarah.huddleston@columbiaspectator.com. Follow Spectator on X @ColumbiaSpec.
I hear in New York, its very hard to evict squatters....
Lock the doors from the outside- call it a temporary ‘holding center’ while they process all the arrests
Non-student, paid protestors will have no negative consequences.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Columbia officials have done nothing but issue empty, toothless threats and making a$$es of themselves so far.
I bet that most of them are not students.
How do they plan to identify the protestors as they are all masked.
Fire the administrators as well. Fire them today or it means nothing.
Yeah, Astroturf doesn’t die.
Arrest the little commies for vandalism.
I’ll believe that real consequences are applied when I actually see it.
assuming they are students
Hell, they may not even be citizens!................
Anyway, where’s Dean Wormer when you need him?
Expulsion...to quickly be undone by some sort of amnesty.
Nothing will happen to these idiots.
That building will burn. They want to be martyrs.
And…no one will care.
Expel them immediately; then maybe — just maybe — the cops will do their job and remove them as felony trespassers.
Disgusting Musllims , and al their trappings and belief sets, have ingested America , and are now trying to bring it down , by aligning with our mortal enemies.
We should 86 every last one.
'these protesters are only interested in revolution and do not care if it kills either Biden or Trump.'
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