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Students occupying Columbia building face expulsion, university says - BBC News Students occupying Columbia building face expulsion, university says - BBC News
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Brandon Drenon Sam Cabral
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More than 1,000 students have been arrested in less than two weeks during these protests. We've been hearing a lot about Hamilton Hall today, which is the academic building protesters at Columbia University have forcibly taken over.
For those in their final year of college, the risk of punishment is particularly significant - and now perhaps more so with Columbia's expulsion announcement. The building, opened in 1907, is on the university's Morningside campus in New York City. It's an eight-storey building home to the Slavic and Germanic language, and classics departments, and it's named after Alexander Hamilton, one of the men known as the Founding Fathers of the United States.
"One But there is symbolism in its seizure.
of the first things we had to consider was that we might not be able to Back in 1968, Columbia students protesting the Vietnam War and in favour of the Civil Rights Movement for black Americans occupied the building and several others exactly 56 years ago to the day.
walk during commencement ceremony at Yale on May 20," Craig Birckhead-Morton, one of the student protesters at Yale University in Connecticut says. In the end, police violently cleared that demonstration, with more than 700 arrests and some 150 people injured.
As we reported earlier, Craig was arrested and charged with trespassing. Echoing language from that protest, an Instagram account affiliated with Columbia University Apartheid Divest - one of the main groups involved in this occupation - wrote: "This building has now been liberated".
"We might not receive our diplomas. We might not receive our final transcripts. All of these things are important to me," he says. In a press release, the group said community members have "reclaimed" the site in honour of Hind Rajab, a six-year-old girl found dead in February after going missing while trying to flee Gaza City with relatives.
"In Her final pleas for someone to help her before coming under Israeli fire - heard on a phone recording - reverberated around the world.
many ways, it's sort of scarier, particularly for students, than the prospect of
our actual legal charges."
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