Earlier this week, Barnard College, the women’s college associated with Columbia University, expelled two students who had disrupted a classroom to spread their pro-Hamas propaganda. CUAD, the group which organized that classroom disruption, immediately demanded that the school reverse the decision and reinstate the two students. As of Monday, Columbia was refusing to do that and stating that classroom disruptions would not be tolerated.
So yesterday, masked CUAD members shoved their way inside a Barnard administration building to hold a sit-in. They injured one person in the process.
During the protest, a small group of masked demonstrators “forcibly entered Milbank Hall” and “physically assaulted a Barnard employee, sending them to the hospital,” Robin Levine, Barnard College’s Vice President for Strategic Communications, said in a statement…
