Administrators at Columbia University have backed away from their threats to anti-Israel protesters, telling the student activists that have occupied its campus that the school will not use the New York Police Department to clear them out.
Columbia’s decision to allow the protesters to continue camping in the university’s quad comes after the administration gave multiple deadlines, each of which came and went without the university taking any action.
The students were originally given a deadline of Tuesday night at midnight to come to an agreement with the administration, but the deadline was pushed back to 8:00 AM on Wednesday morning. The deadline was extended yet again to Friday, with the university now backing down completely.
”We have our demands; they have theirs,” Columbia said late on Thursday night, before saying that negotiations are ongoing. “The talks have…
