The Columbia College student body overwhelmingly passed a referendum asking the University to divest from Israel, cancel the opening of the Tel Aviv Global Center, and end the Tel Aviv University dual degree program.
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- “So admin, what are you going to do?” the Spectator editorial board asks in criticism of Shafik’s handling of campus activism following her April 17 congressional hearing. “Suspend more students until your entire student population falls into line?”
- “The NYPD cleared our campus only minutes before mass arrests because it wanted to prevent the press from bearing witness to the brutality police would enact against our peers,” Spectator’s editor in chief and managing editor write.
- BREAKING: University President Minouche Shafik resigned from her post on Wednesday, Shafik wrote in an email to the Columbia community. The announcement marks the end of a tumultuous year in the position.
- Barnard faculty overwhelmingly passed a vote of no confidence in President Laura Rosenbury on Tuesday with 77 percent of respondents in favor—the first recorded instance of a Barnard president ever receiving such a vote.
- BREAKING: Dozens of protesters occupied Hamilton Hall in the early hours of Tuesday morning, moving metal gates to barricade the doors, blocking entrances with wooden tables and chairs, and zip-tying doors shut.
- Over 1,400 academics from around the world have signed a letter committing to an academic boycott of Columbia in solidarity with protesters demanding that the University divest from Israel.
- Columbia temporarily suspended Business School assistant professor Shai Davidai’s campus access, University spokesperson Millie Wert confirmed in a statement to Spectator on Tuesday.
- Barnard and Columbia issued interim suspensions to four student journalists who covered a Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest in Butler Library, according to emails obtained by Spectator. Columbia lifted its suspension, but the Barnard suspensions remain.
- A 57-year-old man drove a car into a crowd of protesters on Tuesday at a picket organized by CUAD outside a Barnard trustee’s home, an NYPD spokesperson said. The driver hit and injured one protester, and both were arrested alongside another protester.
- BREAKING: The Union Theological Seminary announced on Thursday that its board of trustees endorsed a policy supporting the institution’s divestment from “companies substantially and intractably benefiting from the war in Palestine.”
- BREAKING: CUAD announced Wednesday that it will not continue to engage in negotiations with members of the administration “until there is a written commitment that the administration will not be unleashing the NYPD or the National Guard on its students.”
- As admitted students weekend continued, the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” entered its fifth day on the South Lawn. Two signs hung on the north end of the lawn read “Admitted Students Enroll in Revolution.”
- “To Columbia—an institution that laid the groundwork for my abduction—and to its student body, who must not abdicate their responsibility to resist repression … I ask you, who is truly at risk here?” writes Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, in his op-ed.
