Columbia Students Take Over Hamilton Hall as Deadline to Disperse Passes

Protesters linked arms and blocked off the main entrance to the building at the Ivy League institution.
Columbia Students Take Over Hamilton Hall as Deadline to Disperse Passes
A pro-Palestinian demonstrator breaks a window in the front door of Columbia University's Hamilton Hall to secure a chain around it to prevent authorities from entering, in New York, on April 30, 2024. Alex Kent/Getty Images
Katabella Roberts
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Dozens of students at Columbia University in New York City stormed across the campus and took over a building early on Tuesday, just one day after the school began suspending students who defied a deadline to disperse from a pro-Palestinian encampment, a spokesperson for the university confirmed to The Epoch Times.

In an emailed statement to The Epoch Times, Ben Chang, vice president for communications at Columbia University, said students had begun barricading themselves inside Hamilton Hall—a building near the South Lawn where the office of the dean is located—in the early hours of the morning.

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