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BREAKING: Police arrested 282 people last night at Columbia University and CCNY

Listen now to WKCR-FM NY, Columbia's student radio station. Reporters in the field as NYPD carts off protestors who took over Hamilton Hall.

Hosts and others offer input on the dire campus mood.

They note finals scheduled goes on, as planned.

Police largely obstructed journalists from seeing what was happening in and around Columbia University last night. It was hard to watch student reporters from WKCR-FM NY Columbia Daily Spectator Columbia Journalism get locked outside the campus gates or inside certain buildings.

The entrance to Hamilton Hall at Columbia University this afternoon. Barricaded with chairs and benches and some windows covered with student newspapers and a tarp. One student is filling up a crate with food that look like it’ll be pulled up by students inside the building.

you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me.

Romaissaa is an incredible journalist and any newsroom would be lucky to have her!

NEW: Elizabeth Kim and Bahar Ostadan break down Mayor Adams' claims of 'outside agitators' at recent protests at Columbia and NYU. Most of the demonstrators arrested and given more than a summons had no priors on their record:
gothamist.com/news/mayor-ada…

A car crashed into a Dunkin' in Cranston this morning.

This was what a 15-year-old had to say about it.

Story: wpri.com/news/local-new…

A coalition of untenured faculty members share a letter of solidarity with students. “We want to assure you that we believe Barnard, Teachers College, and Columbia belong to you, not to the administrators. You are the reason we are proud to teach here.”
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NEW: NYPD began arresting protestors at NYU during maghrib prayer. It is unclear when NYU called in the NYPD.

NOW: NYPD arrests at least a dozen NYU faculty members in the ‘Liberated Zone’ at Gould Plaza

Police deployed the LRAD while protesters were praying

Spare a thought for the absolutely amazing journalists at the Columbia Daily Spectator, students approaching finals week also in the midst of one of the most tumultuous times on campus, publishing on an almost hourly basis this past week.

Columbia Daily Spectator
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There were hundreds and hundreds of students and faculty on Columbia University’s main lawn today. Many demanded the university president resign while others want arrested students’ disciplinary records expunged.

NEW: Columbia University's main lawn continued to be a central focus on Mon. of antiwar protests that are spreading across US universities, as student protesters resumed their largely peaceful campout. Things were rowdier outside the gates (via @gothamist) gothamist.com/news/columbia-…

Spent six hours on ⁦⁦Columbia University⁩’s campus reporting on the multiple demonstrations that took place today even despite the hundreds of arrests that happened last week. w/ ⁦Ramsey Khalifeh رمزي خليفة⁩ + ⁦Bahar Ostadan⁩ gothamist.com/news/columbia-…

Strong condemnations by professors this afternoon Columbia University. Here’s a speech by Christopher Brown, a professor of history, who says the university and president Minouche Shafik made a mistake calling in NYPD to arrest pro-Palestinian protestors last week 🧵