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Columbia Expelled Student Protesters For the First Time in Over 50 Years
On March 5, protesters were arrested after dozens formed a sit-in at Milstein Library to demand the reinstatement of three expelled students.
In following years, 1972, 1985, 1987, 1996, and 2016, students have engaged in sit-ins, multi-building takeovers, and blockades over issues of public concern—including American foreign policy, South African apartheid, on-campus racism, and the university’s associations with the fossil fuel industry—without suffering the same disciplinary outcomes as those opposing Israel’s war on Gaza. Indeed, the punishment of these earlier activists, who engaged in similar forms of protest as pro-Palestine demonstrators, included disciplinary warnings or being forced to write apology letters, or led to dropped charges. Additionally, “it is she who evicted dozens of students last spring,” CUAD noted—emphasizing the college president’s role in destabilizing the campus community by eliminating over 50 Barnard activists’ access to education, food, housing, and medical care via interim suspension.
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