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For Columbia and a Powerful Donor, Months of Talks and Millions at Risk
Columbia University has faced enormous public pressure over protests. But emails and interviews also show some of the private demands on the Ivy League school.
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What I’d Assign to Today’s College Students
My weekend column used this season of campus protest as an opportunity to discuss the evolution of Columbia’s core curriculum, whose readings on contemporary politics, I argued, usefully distill the core of contemporary progressivism while leaving a ...
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Locks, Chains, Diversions: How Columbia Students Seized Hamilton Hall
Some of those arrested during the pro-Palestinian protest were outsiders, not students or others who appeared to be affiliated with the school, according to an analysis of Police Department data.
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As Protests Grow, Universities Choose Different Ways to End Unrest
Columbia has taken the spotlight after twice asking the police to quell pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus. Brown University chose a different path.
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Hamilton Hall Has a Long History of Student Takeovers
Hamilton Hall, the building at Columbia University that protesters occupied early Tuesday morning, has been occupied several times by student activists over the past half-century. Here are some of the notable moments of student protest at the ...
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Student Protester Is Suspended After Anti-Zionist Video
Khymani James, a Columbia University student, was barred from campus after his January video resurfaced online last week.
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Columbia Tells Protesters to Clear Out Encampment or Face Suspension
University officials have given students, who have occupied a central lawn on campus for nearly two weeks, until 2 p.m. to leave.
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Columbia Protests: The Musical
Students at the university staged “Mayday,” a show that satirizes the administration, especially the beleaguered president, Nemat Shafik.
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What Students Read Before They Protest
When I was a college undergraduate 25 years ago, the fancy school that I attended offered what it styled as a “core curriculum” that was really nothing of the sort. Instead of giving students a set of foundational courses and assignments, a shared ...
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What Columbia Should Have Learned From the Protests of 1968
Sending in the police to arrest students only inflamed tensions on campus then. Why would this time be different?
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