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@persianjewess @AOC in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University.
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Me after writing one cover letter for an unpaid summer internship
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Barnard and Columbia members of the America Association of University Professors have submitted a Resolution of Censure of Columbia President Shafik, the General Counsel, the Chief Operating Officer, and the Co-Chairs of the Board of Trustees to the University Senate for review.
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Protesters link arms in front of Hamilton Hall.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told Bwog, "Any leader who has called in enforcement and violence on folks that are peacefully organizing should be deeply ashamed of themselves. I would imagine a decision like that would follow a person for a very long time."
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6 years
"It's an honor. Been writing my whole life, so to get this type of recognition is beautiful" — Kendrick on the livestream. See the full list of winners here:
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Students inside Hamilton Hall at Columbia University, after breaking a window and occupying the building.
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3 years
BREAKING: Students chant "Fuck you PrezBo" and "No contract, no work" in Bollinger's Freedom of Speech class, which was subsequently cancelled.
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Students occupying Hamilton Hall have hung a poster reading "Hind's Hall," likely referring to five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab who was killed by the IDF.
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Pro-Palestine posters are being hung from the windows of Hamilton Hall.
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Broken windows inside Hamilton Hall at Columbia University.
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A member of Facilities has stated he is being taken hostage inside Hamilton Hall.
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Columbia University Library workers released a statement denouncing President Shafik and the Board of Trustees’ decision to allow the NYPD onto campus on Thursday, April 18, to arrest student protesters.
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The “Corporate Fat Cat,” cousin of “Scabby the Rat” and fellow labor union icon, has been erected at 116 and Broadway.
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Students and alumni have set up another Encampment titled “Revolt for Rafah” on the South Lawns during Alumni Weekend.
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The group then moved towards Barnard's Futter Field, where faculty members began jumping over the barricade blocking people from entering the area. “Meme us, Tweet us, viral us,” one professor declared.
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According to campus radio WKCR, the Facilities members who were taken hostage have been released. The doors are now reportedly being re-barricaded.
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A member of Facilities has stated he is being taken hostage inside Hamilton Hall.
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6 months
At 2:50 pm, Barnard Admissions’ Graduate Admissions Assistant Aydan Shahdadpuri announced to admissions office employees that they are resigning from their role due to Barnard's evictions and suspensions of various students who participated in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
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At 10 am, JVP posted an open letter to their Instagram from the “arrested and suspended Jewish students of Columbia University” describing their “extreme concern for the state of Jewish students on this campus” and how this has prevented them from engaging in religious practices.
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3 years
Demonstrators on the Amsterdam overpass:
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4 years
yeah sex is cool but have you ever had a seamless transfer to the 2/3 at 96th
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Barnard students can now have up to 2 guests but they have to pass the Bechdel test
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. @CynthiaNixon is picketing with @GWCUAW right now!!! Prezbo, are you seeing this?
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3 years
Danny DeVito finally breaks his silence on the strike
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New York is still a union town! Solidarity forever. Respect Labor. Students stand strong. @sw_columbia
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Bwog has asked the NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Public Information (DCPI) office about the number of individuals arrested this evening. They stated they will have the number tomorrow.
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6 months
“Repeat after me,” a speaker in front of Hamilton Hall stated. “This building is now liberated. We will not leave until Columbia meets every one of our demands.”
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6 months
At 6:17 pm, barricade trucks were seen traveling north on Broadway. About five minutes later, Broadway was reported to be closed between 112th Street and 120th street. Amsterdam was reported to be closed north of 114th Street at 6:30 pm. Follow along for live tweets.
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4 years
s(he) be(lie)ve(d)
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“ok, now (and only now) that lots of you have bought your flights—“
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5 years
street signs in the end times:
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6 months
In the midst of finals season, students watch the ongoing protests from inside Butler Library.
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5 years
the duality of barnard womxn ✨
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3 years
Following the walkout, @SW_Columbia enter Schermerhorn, where President Bollinger is currently teaching a class.
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3 years
when will the finance bros rest
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4 years
love being a liberal disgrace ✨💕
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Aaron Rupar
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"Columbia is a liberal, disgraceful institution" -- Trump to Sharyl Attkisson on Columbia University study that found 30,000 lives could've been saved had his federal government recommended social distancing measures just one week earlier
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how it started how it’s going
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An individual locked inside of Hamilton Hall stated, “No I’m not okay, my mental is not okay.”
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9 years
. @shailenewoodley is campaigning for Bernie on Low Steps right now!
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4 years
Your Columbia experience stays with you your whole life <3
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The New York Times
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Obama said that he does his best writing between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m.
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A large banner has been unfurled from Hamilton Hall, stating, "Intifada."
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3 years
Students participating in the walkout gathered by the sundial:
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At 3 pm, Gavin McInnes, the founder of the far-right militant organization the Proud Boys, was spotted on campus. McInnes is present around the Butler Lawn area.
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The statement endorses  CUAD demands, and rejects “anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, anti-Black racism, anti-semitism, and Islamophobia” and “the conflation of advocacy for Palestinian rights with anti-semitism." Read more on Bwog.
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The glass of additional Hamilton Hall entrance doors are now smashed. Barricade materials are strung about, while the banner reading "Hind's Hall" still hangs.
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After Palestinian students at Columbia filed a formal complaint against the institution alleging discrimination, Palestine Legal announced that the federal Office for Civil Rights will escalate the filing to a formal investigation.
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At 8:22 pm NYPD was reported by Bwog staff to be entering Columbia's main campus through Carmen Residence Hall's gate.
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3 years
Koronet Pizza is currently closed, as declared by a sign on their door found today. The handmade sign appears to cover a notice from the City of New York that cites Health Code 3.17, which states that official notices cannot be obstructed.
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At around 1 am, SJP and CUAD posted an “urgent call for mobilization” to their Instagram accounts, which they stated to "share widely."
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6 years
In John Jay lobby, black students and POC make a definitive stance against the racist Public Safety incident. The sign reads: “!Student! Do not pin this Negro down”
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4 years
well CC men what do have to say for yourselves
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Obama on his how his discovery of Marx and Foucault in college became inseparable from “a strategy for picking up girls”:
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The resolution addresses Shafik’s “violation of the fundamental requirements of academic freedom and shared governance, and her unprecedented assault on students’ rights,” with AAUP members requesting “unequivocal and emphatic condemnation.
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Protesters in front of Hamilton continue to have linked arms, barricading the building.
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3 years
Koronet Pizza has re-opened with the approval of the NYC Department of Health.
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If you got Koronets this weekend you're immune to the BA.2 variant
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Protesters have begun moving chairs outside of Hamilton Hall onto a balcony above the north entrance.
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7 years
?????? How????
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There is SRG presence, armored vehicles headed toward campus, and police officers with zip ties. It is not confirmed if the heavy law enforcement presence is for outside protesters or student protesters.
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5 years
snow day, but its the apocalypse
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4 years
If Barnard pulls another stunt they’re gonna catch these bold beautiful hands
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3 years
Students are evacuating Butler after a fire alarm went off around midnight this evening, marking the fifth alarm in the past day.
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3 years
Filming season 4 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in Riverside Park!
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4 years
prezbo really took “it’s quiet uptown” to heart
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5 years
society if spec stopped publishing op-eds
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i just drove through Columbia’s campus and asked these dudes if they went to Columbia they said yes i said oh ya then where’s ur favorite depression cry spot they said butler 6 bathroom i said dang you rlly do go to Columbia
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Gracie McIntosh
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i just drove through Harvard’s campus and asked these dudes if they went to Harvard they said yes i said oh ya then what’s 68x2 they said 136 i said dang you rlly do go to Harvard
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Circling the middle of College Walk:
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4 years
shut up. shut up. SHUT UP. SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUT-
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University faculty from around the world have signed a letter announcing the initiation of an “academic and cultural boycott” of Columbia University and Barnard College until demands to revoke student suspensions and remove police presence from campus are met.
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After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.
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@persianjewess Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is currently in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
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Despite the rain, a small congregation protesting Public Safety’s recent violence against a black student gathers outside the Barnard gates. “No justice, no peace, fuck these racist police!”
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Columbia History Professor Christopher Brown stated that “Thursday, April 18, 2024, will be remembered as a shameful day in Columbia’s history.” He called the presence of riot police “unprecedented, unjustified, disproportionate, divisive, and dangerous.”
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As of May 9, over 1,700 Columbia University alumni have pledged to withhold “financial, programmatic, and academic support.” Alumni claim over $74 million is at risk unless Columbia agrees to all of its demands, including President Shafik’s removal.
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Counter-protesters who were surrounding the entrance of Hamilton Hall were blocked by large University tables.
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2 years
We yelled and Columbia listened! According to an Instagram post from Columbia Dining, next semester, JJ’s Place will be open from 12 pm to 1 am every. single. day.
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4 years
leave it to prezbo to take 7 paragraphs to tell us it’s online after all
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Hope all your ducks are in a row!
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Ferris at 6 Ferris at 7
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imagine paying someone real money to make this meme, and then turning around and gutting financial aid
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The best way to reduce the spread of #COVID19 based on your astrology sign. #BarnardBoldStrongTogether #FeelWellDoWell
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"can i copy your homework" "yeah just change it a little so it doesn't look obvious you copied" "ok"
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@persianjewess Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) is also currently at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
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It reiterates the fact that the AAUP is calling for the censure of Shafik, not her resignation. Rather, they request a “recommitment to our core values on the part of our President, her administration, and the Board of Trustees.”
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The letter also addresses Shai Davidai, “We do not feel safe with this professor still teaching on our campus, having access to the Jewish community spaces we cherish,” as well as the Antisemitism Task Force, demanding a public meeting with it.
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Protesters have reportedly occupied Hamilton Hall.
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SSOL and MyBarnard are down! they really said no classes for you😘
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"I'm five things the president doesn't like: I'm Mexican, I'm an immigrant, I'm a journalist, I'm a woman, and I'm flat chested." - @Maria_Hinojosa in her incredible keynote speech at #barnardconvocation2018
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SJP and CUAD stated that this is “after Columbia’s persistent refusal to divest, complicity in genocide, and continued violence against its students.” The statement affirms that protesters “will remain in Hamilton until the University divests from death.”
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4 years
Socially Hewitt, fiscally John Jay
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NYPD officers on 113th confirmed to Bwog that the barricades are a precautionary activity in order to minimize the amount of disruptions to traffic if protesters walked south. However, protesters moved north and were reported to be on 135th turning towards City College at 7:07 pm
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At around 12:40 am, SJP and CUAD posted to their Instagram an announcement of the occupation of Hamilton Hall by an “autonomous group of students” who have “taken matters into their own hands.”
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As President Shafik’s inauguration began on Low Plaza, trucks gathered outside the gates at 116th and Broadway bearing screens that read “end the cover-up,” a reference to the University’s apparent knowledge of sex abuse committed by longtime Columbia OB-GYN Robert Hadden.
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“The College has failed these students and failed its mission appallingly, violently,” they stated. Shahdadpuri's decision follows the recent resignations of three Head Barnard Student Admissions Representatives (HBSARs).
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3 years
pov you attend columbia university
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6 months
A vote was held regarding whether the protesters would remain in the Encampment, despite potentially facing interim suspensions or further disciplinary action. Protesters voted unanimously to remain in the Encampment.
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5 years
don’t text 😤
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