Columbia Limits Access to Campus After Anti-Israel Activists Invade School Library
“Only those with a university ID or approved faculty guests were allowed past checkpoints Thursday”
You can read the backstory on this incident here. Is the school finally taking this problem seriously?
CBS News reports:
Columbia University campus restricted after protests end with dozens of arrests
After dozens of people were arrested during protests at Columbia University on Wednesday, the school upped security by once again limiting access to its Manhattan campus.
Only those with a university ID or approved faculty guests were allowed past checkpoints Thursday, according to a message on the school’s website. Other visitors, including alumni, were not.
Columbia’s safety protocols outline three levels of campus access: “O” for open, “I” for ID only and “R” for restricted. The campus is currently at the second level, requiring ID.
Columbia’s Butler Library reopens after arrests of protesters
Butler Library, where the protest took place, reopened Thursday, as students are studying for their final exams, Columbia’s Acting President Claire Shipman wrote in an update.
Dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators vandalized the building with “disturbing slogans” the night before, the university said.
Cellphone video shows protesters, many in masks, forcing their way inside, where they vandalized property and took over a reading room, as students were studying for finals. As the confrontation escalated inside, demonstrators also clashed with police on the outskirts of campus, pushing barricades and shutting down the block.
At least 80 people were arrested. All but two were issued desk appearance tickets for criminal mischief and two received summonses, NYPD said.
Shipman said administrators believe a significant portion of protesters were not affiliated with the university and that discipline will be in line with the severity of their actions. The university confirmed some students have been suspended for their involvement.
“Columbia unequivocally rejects antisemitism,” she said. “We will come together as a community to consider what civil disobedience actually is.”
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Yeah blame it on outsiders. Look Columbia, You are a cesspool of antisemitism. Want to fix it? Cull your staff. Stop admitting foreign muslims or if that is too severe at least those from the middle east, turkey, and pakistan. Eject any student involved in an illegal protest. This would be a good start.
Why weren’t they already doing this ? You mean I could have walked into Columbia’s campus up until after this incident go into their library with a stupid face mask and destroy it ? That’s how stupid these people are ? I. The 2000 at Tulane I had to show a student ID to get inside their library. It was New Orleans and it’s a dangerous city. These people are hopeless ; they want their campus destroyed; is all I can conclude.
Dunno about you, but my alma mater had zero controls on entrances with the exception of some of the dorms and the gyms. Checking the IDs of 20K+ students every day as they go about class is a non-trivial problem.
It’s not normally a problem. When the activists get spun up, it becomes a problem.
My campus had checks and controls but then we are in New Orleans . Do not touch could t just walk into the library or cafeteria with no ID.