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Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters staged a sit-in outside of Barnard Dean Leslie Grinage’s office Wednesday afternoon to call for the reinstatement of two expelled Barnard students. According to an Instagram post by Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the two students had been expelled for disrupting the first session of the class History of Modern Israel in January. The protesters also demanded amnesty for those involved in the sit-in and a public meeting with Grinage.
Columbia updated its University Life Anti-Discrimination and Discriminatory Harassment Reporting website on Feb. 14 to include anti-Palestinian discrimination as a reportable incident.
A group of Union Theological Seminary students started a “live-in” in the UTS main lobby on Sunday evening in protest of the suspension and eviction of a student. The demonstration continued into Monday.
Dozens of demonstrators gathered at the Sundial on Wednesday as part of a global initiative to show support for the Bibas family, an Israeli family Hamas took hostage on Oct. 7, 2023.
Columbia and MTA representatives have again delayed an official announcement for a joint project to install an elevator at the 125th Street-Broadway subway station, community members learned at a Tuesday update meeting hosted by the Elevator Lobby.