The student uprising began with a rally protesting the university’s effort to build a gym on public land in Morningside Park and its ties to Vietnam-era military research.
Faculty members wearing white armbands speak with students sitting on a Low Library ledge outside the university president's office in April 1968. At first, the protest at Columbia University had a “carnivalesque quality,” with a student band playing music and balloons floating about as the university was brought to a shutdown.
About 55 years later, students are once again protesting the administration, demanding that the university divest from Israel-related investments while theMore than 100 people were arrested on Columbia’s campus and charged with trespassing late last week. Columbia President Minouche Shafik, called for police to make arrests and described the request as “an extraordinary step” to keep the campus safe.Some of the students describe the Columbia encampments as a safe space.
Protesters first headed toward Morningside Park to halt the construction of the gym. When the police arrived there, the protesters returned to campus and seized Hamilton Hall. Soon they were evicted, but they went on to occupy Low Library and Avery, Fayerweather, and Mathematics halls.
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