Columbia Students Take Over Hamilton Hall as Deadline to Disperse Passes

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, according to multiple reports. Students began barricading themselves inside Hamilton Hall—a building near the South Lawn where the office of the dean is located—at around 12:35 a.m., The New York Times reports. The protesters linked arms and blocked off the main entrance to the building at the Ivy League institution after previously marching around campus to chants of “free Palestine,” according to the publication....