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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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Columbia University has emerged as the epicentre of demonstrations that spread across the country after the college's president requested earlier this month that protesters there be removed, leading to arrests. Protests at New York's Columbia University have become a focal point for the country's debate over the war in Gaza and US support for Israel.
Over the past 24 hours, dozens of the pro-Palestinian protesters have escalated their demonstrations by occupying an academic building on Columbia's campus, Hamilton Hall. Pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia escalated overnight, after protesters broke into an academic building called Hamilton Hall - which they have renamed Hind's Hall, in memory of a young girl found dead in Gaza earlier this year.
Columbia has urged staff and students to stay away as the group has barricaded themselves inside the hall. They have limited access to the campus to students living in residential buildings there. Here's a look at some of the latest developments:
The takeover began after Columbia started suspending students who defied a deadline of 14:00 EST (18:00 GMT) on Monday to leave their two-week encampment nearby. The university is currently restricting campus access; it has also suspended students who didn't comply with its deadline to leave their encampment by 14:00 local time yesterday - and has warned those occupying Hamilton Hall face expulsion
You can learn more about the situation here. Lead Columbia negotiator Mahmoud Khalil told the BBC he had complied with the university's order but had nevertheless been suspended - and is now at risk of losing his US student visa
Organisers say they have "no plans to end their protest anytime soon"
There is growing criticism from many corners, with both President Joe Biden, his predecessor Donald Trump and leaders of both parties denouncing the Hamilton Hall takeover
Elsewhere, police - mostly in riot gear - detained dozens of protesters at similar protests, including on the campuses of the University of Texas at Austin, Virginia Commonweath University and California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt
A few universities facing protests have struck accords to end their encampments peacefully and without law enforcement intervention, including Brown University in Rhode Island and Northwestern University in Illinois
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