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Protesters spray-painted the President’s House with the words “Free them all” and red paint splotches, according to a Friday morning Instagram post from Columbia University Apartheid Divest. The wall was later covered with a sheet.
The University Senate unanimously passed a resolution to “rededicate” Lerner Hall as a student space at Friday’s plenary.
Both American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson and Columbia’s chapter of AAUP condemned President Donald Trump’s Friday $400 million cut in federal funding to Columbia as well as Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Saturday detainment of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, in Monday and Tuesday statements, respectively.
The New York Police Department arrested one Barnard student following the Wednesday sit-in, according to an NYPD list of arrested individuals reviewed by Spectator.
The Columbia Palestine Solidarity Coalition denounced Columbia’s “silence” on the arrest of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a Monday news release.
Columbia condemned the “harassment” of Keren Yarhi-Milo, dean of the School of International and Public Affairs, as she walked onto campus Wednesday morning in a Wednesday statement published by the Office of Public Affairs.
Columbia suspended and restricted the campus access of four Columbia students arrested at a sit-in at the Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning at Barnard on Wednesday, the University announced in a Friday Office of Public Affairs statement.
The Barnard Center for Research on Women announced the appointment of Rebecca Jordan-Young, Ann Whitney Olin professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Barnard, as its interim director for the spring semester in a Friday email.