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Student Protesters at Columbia Remain Defiant
The encampment is gone, but some activists spent the night on the university lawn, with what seemed like light enforcement, at least for the moment.
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Columbia Sends In the N.Y.P.D. to Arrest Protesters in Tent City
The university president broke with a decades-long tradition and called in the police to quell the pro-Palestinian protest. The encampment was then dismantled.
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A protest 56 years ago became an important part of Columbia’s culture.
Columbia University is no stranger to major student protests, and the uproar that unfolded at the institution on Thursday had echoes of a much bigger revolt in 1968 — another time of upheaval over a war many students deeply believed was immoral. That ...
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Colleges Warn Student Demonstrators: Enough
After years of tolerating unruly protests, some schools are starting to suspend and expel students, raising questions about where they should draw the line.
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4 Takeaways From the Hearing on Antisemitism at Columbia University
Four Columbia University officials, including the university’s president and the leaders of its board, went before Congress on Wednesday to try to extinguish criticism that the campus in New York has become a hub of antisemitic behavior and thought ...
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Business
Q: Who Found a Way to Crack the U.K.’s Premier Quiz Show?
Brandon Blackwell sits in his apartment in the Jamaica section of Queens, training with a collection of 30,000 homemade flash cards the way weight lifters train with barbells. Each card contains an obscure fact about the world. Which country is home ...
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U.C. Berkeley Parents Hired Private Security to Patrol Near Campus
The parents were worried about crime, but the university said that the move raised concerns about training and experience, and that security was better left to its own police force.
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At Oakland University, Students and Alumni Bask in the N.C.A.A. Spotlight
Supporters of the little-known college on Friday celebrated its moment of fame after a shocking first-round win.
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What’s It Like to Be Cinderella in March? These Schools Know.
As administrators at universities like St. Peter’s, Fairleigh Dickinson and Florida Gulf Coast can attest, upset victories bring attention, alumni donations and a lot of work.
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Harvard, M.I.T. and Systemic Antisemitism
This Monday, March 11, roughly 200 Jewish students and supporters marched through the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, and it was newsworthy that they were not attacked. Local news hailed that they were able to, as one headline noted ...
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