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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Student <keyword id="19949028" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="protesters" source="keywords">protesters</keyword> have occupied Hamilton Hall at <keyword id="20020505" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Columbia-University" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Columbia University" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Columbia University">Columbia University</keyword>, according to reports.</li><li>The occupation follows <keyword id="20645185" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="columbia" source="keywords">Columbia</keyword>'s announcement it would not divest from <keyword id="19900599" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Israel" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Israel" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Israel">Israel</keyword>.</li></ul><a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/columbia-university-pro-palestine-israel-gaza-protests-timeline-2024-4?mrfhud=true">Student protesters at Columbia University</a> have barricaded Hamilton Hall, one of the main buildings on the campus in New York City, with several reportedly inside. In the early hours of Tuesday morning, protesters declared they had taken over Hamilton Hall, flying a <keyword id="21268459" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Palestinian-flag" source="keywords">Palestinian flag</keyword> from the building's windows. An <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/columbia-university-president-says-negotiations-protesters-stalled-sch-rcna149755">NBC News reporter</a> said windows had been smashed, and dozens of people had entered the building. <a target="_blank" href="https://edition.cnn.com/business/live-news/university-protests-palestine-04-30-24/index.html">CNN reported</a> that about 200 student protesters had barricaded the building's entrance, with about a dozen people inside. John Towfighi, a CNN staffer and Columbia student, told the outlet there was no visible police presence. An NYPD spokesperson told NBC that officers were "outside the campus, not on the grounds" just before 2 a.m. The <a target="_blank" href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/30/dozens-occupy-hamilton-hall-as-pro-palestinian-protests-spread-across-campus/">Columbia Spectator</a> student newspaper reported that dozens of protesters had occupied Hamilton Hall, using metal gates, tables and chairs as barricades and zip-tying doors shut. Columbia University Apartheid Divest issued a press release on X early on Tuesday, saying protesters would remain until the university met its demands of "<keyword id="20265224" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="divestment" source="keywords">divestment</keyword>, financial transparency, and amnesty." The group posted a <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBDS/status/1785171410115027281">video on X</a> that appeared to show student protesters forming a human chain to protect those occuping Hamilton Hall. Protesters who entered the building, where the dean's office is located, were reportedly heard chanting: "Disclose, divest. We will not stop, we will not rest." On Monday, Columbia president Nemat Minouche Shafik <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://president.columbia.edu/news/statement-columbia-university-president-minouche-shafik-4-29">released a statement</a> announcing the university would not "divest from Israel." The university also ordered protesters to leave their encampment by a 2 p.m. deadline and threatened students who defied the order with suspension. Shafik appealed directly to Jewish students in the statement, saying: "I know that many of our Jewish students, and other students as well, have found the atmosphere intolerable in recent weeks. Many have left campus, and that is a tragedy." Columbia University did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours. It's told staff and students to avoid the campus on Tuesday, The New York Times reported. Columbia has faced unrest on campus for almost two weeks over <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-using-ai-gaza-targets-terrifying-glimpse-at-future-war-2024-4">Israel's war in Gaza. </a>The protests began on April 17, the same day Shafik <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/columbia-president-avoids-missteps-of-other-elite-colleges-2024-4">testified before Congress about antisemitism on campus</a>. Last week, the university began holding classes online because of the escalating protests. The protesters say they are peaceful, but <keyword id="21419053" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="campus-tensions" source="keywords">campus tensions</keyword> have sparked concerns in the Jewish community. Rabbi Elie Buechler wrote to Jewish students to "strongly recommend" they leave campus for their safety, CNN reported. The action is part of a wave of protests at a number of universities across the country in recent weeks over the Israel-Hamas war. Correction: April 30, 2024 — An earlier version of this story misstated the name of the student group that issued a statement on X. It's Columbia University Apartheid Divest, not <keyword id="21494607" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Columbia-Students-for-Justice-in-Palestine" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine">Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine</keyword>. The story has also been updated to clarify that classes were moved online last week.

Student protests at Columbia University escalate with Hamilton Hall occupation

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Emerson College in Boston says student protests have resulted in a decline in enrollment rates this year, per CBS News.</li><li>An internal letter said the college is looking to reduce spending and eliminate staff.</li></ul>Student protests are one of the reasons Emerson College in Boston is facing a decline in enrollment this fall, an internal message to staff stated, per <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/emerson-college-enrollment-protests-layoffs/">CBS News</a>."We attribute this reduction to multiple factors, including national enrollment trends away from smaller private institutions, an enrollment deposit delay in response to the new FAFSA rollout, student protests targeting our yield events and campus tours, and negative press and social media generated from the demonstrations and arrests," Emerson College president Jay Bernhardt wrote in the letter.In late April, Emerson students set up a pro-Palestine encampment in a public alley next to Boylston Street, following the student protests that started at <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/columbia-university-pro-palestine-israel-gaza-protests-timeline-2024-4">Columbia University</a> earlier in the month.Protesters at Emerson called for a cease-fire in Gaza and urged the college to divest from organizations with ties to Israel, per <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/boston-campuses-join-columbia-university-in-gaza-war-protests/3345806/">NBC Boston.</a>On April 25, over 100 protesters were arrested at Emerson when the police in riot gear moved in to dismantle the camp. According to the police, the protesters were breaking city ordinances that banned camping on public property, per CBS News.Although the decline in enrollment is expected to be "a one-year phenomenon," the college will have to make "immediate spending reductions" — including possible faculty layoffs, the letter stated."We will limit our staff and faculty searches next year and carefully review existing programs and offerings for future savings," Bernhardt said in the letter. "Finally, we will need to eliminate some staff positions, both vacant and filled, and potentially reduce some faculty positions."According to the latest data on the <a target="_blank" href="https://emerson.edu/about-emerson-college/facts-figures">college's website</a>, Emerson enrolled 1,002 first-year students in fall 2022.The college enrolled a total of 4,149 undergraduate students in fall 2022, 4,117 in fall 2021, and 3,708 in fall 2020, Boston Herald <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/06/19/emerson-colleges-announces-coming-layoffs-links-declining-enrollment-to-protests/">reported</a>.The number of students enrolled for the fall 2024 term has not been shared, and it's unclear how many students Emerson had expected for the upcoming semester. The college did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent outside regular business hours.However, declining college enrollment rates could also be due to the changing sentiments of the younger generation.More and more Gen Zs <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-value-of-college-higher-education-student-debt-tuition-2023-12">no longer see the value in higher education</a>. A 2023 survey of over 1,800 Americans by Business Insider and YouGov revealed that 46% of Gen Zs surveyed say they don't think college is worth the cost.Additionally, the availability of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/blue-collar-job-demand-growth-white-collar-layoffs-ai-2024-5">high-paying jobs that don't require a college degree</a> has also prompted Gen Zs to rethink college.It doesn't help that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cost-us-universities-wildly-expensive-education-tuition-fees-america-2024-3">tuition fees are so expensive</a> that many college graduates find themselves <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stories-of-student-loan-debt-hamster-wheel-borrowers-cant-escape-2022-1">saddled with student debt that they just can't escape</a>.

A Boston college blames pro-Palestinian student protests for lower enrollment

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Leon Cooperman, a billionaire Columbia donor, weighed in on the crisis on the university's campus.</li><li>He called the student protesters ignorant but expressed his support for the school's president.</li></ul>The Wall Street titan Leon Cooperman is the latest billionaire to weigh in on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/columbia-university-pro-palestine-israel-gaza-protests-timeline-2024-4">student protests over Israel's war in Gaza</a>.But unlike the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/robert-kraft-pulls-support-donations-columbia-israel-gaza-palestine-protests-2024-4">megadonor Robert Kraft</a>, Cooperman said he'd continue to give to Columbia even as he trashed student demonstrators.During a CNBC interview on Tuesday, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-financial-crisis-national-debt-deficit-leon-cooperman-billionaire-omega-2024-4">Cooperman</a>, a Columbia University donor, was asked about the demonstrations on the school's campus, which have grown heated over the past week and resulted in more than 100 arrests."Many of the college kids have shit for brains," he said, doubling down on comments he made last year and adding that the students were "ignorant."(He apologized for his language during the interview, saying: "I grew up in the Bronx when it was more of an accepted terminology.")"They are advocating for the destruction of Israel," he said. "Israel is the only reliable ally the United States has in the Middle East, the only democracy in the Middle East."Cooperman also said Israel was the only country in the Middle East that "allows gays and lesbians to practice what they want to practice." While LGBTQ+ people experience discrimination in many countries, some nations in the region — including Cyprus, Jordan, and Turkey — have not criminalized same-sex activity.Cooperman blamed part of the unrest on people unaffiliated with Columbia who "are getting access to the school and creating this hoopla."He added that he believed <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/columbia-president-avoids-missteps-of-other-elite-colleges-2024-4">Columbia's president, Nemat "Minouche" Shafik</a>, and leadership were "trying to do the right things."Shafik appeared before Congress last week and took a strong stance against antisemitism, denouncing a professor who voiced support for Hamas and another who <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/columbia-professor-faces-removal-petition-after-pro-hamas-attack-article-2023-10">called the October 7 terror attacks "awesome."</a>The same day as her remarks on Capitol Hill, a coalition of student groups — Columbia University Apartheid Divest, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, and Jewish Voice for Peace — set up "Gaza Solidarity Encampments" on Columbia's campus, protesting the war in Gaza, which has claimed thousands of civilian lives, and demanding the university divest financially from Israel.The groups say the protests were peaceful and within their rights.When the students would not move as requested, Shafik requested the New York City Police Department break up the protest, which led to the arrest of more than 100 protesters. Columbia and Barnard College suspended students involved with the protest.That move sparked increased tensions, with separate, antisemitic demonstrators taking to the area surrounding the campus, according to <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/Davidlederer6/status/1781948249214996901">videos posted on social media</a>. Jewish leaders at the school allege that Jewish students have been targeted with hateful rhetoric by demonstrators.On Monday, Columbia announced classes would be held virtually, and the campus has been closed to the public.Cooperman, who attended Columbia Business School, donated $25 million to the school in 2012 and has <a target="_blank" href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/billionaire-leon-cooperman-pulling-columbia-funding-student-protests-kids-brains">said</a> he's donated closer to $50 million in total."I try to give money to those schools that have made a difference to me in my lifetime. I don't think it's right, but I probably couldn't have gotten into Wall Street from Hunter College, where I got my undergraduate degree," he said. "I got an MBA from Columbia, and the very next day, I joined Goldman Sachs."He said he would continue to give to the school but earmark his gifts to stay within the business school.Kraft, the billionaire owner of the Patriots and another Columbia alumnus, announced he would be pulling all donations to the school "until corrective action is taken."He did not specify what he meant by "corrective action." Kraft said he'd continue to support the school's Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life, which is named after him.Representatives for Cooperman and Kraft did not respond to requests for comment before publication.The conversation around giving and the relationship between <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/business-leaders-slam-harvard-penn-mit-after-congressional-testimony-antisemitism-2023-12">billionaire donors and universities</a> has been reignited in recent weeks following protests at Columbia, Yale, and New York University.After the October 7 attacks, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tensions-escalate-colleges-harvard-penn-yale-over-war-israel-hamas-2023-10">tensions on college campuses</a> erupted, prompting megadonors to criticize the responses of various university administrators. At Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, billionaires including <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apollo-ceo-marc-rowan-university-pennsylvania-penn-leaders-quit-antisemitism-2023-10">Apollo CEO Marc Rowan</a>, the Estée Lauder heir Ronald Lauder, and the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wexner-foundation-pulls-funding-from-harvard-over-stance-israel-hamas-attacks-2023-10">former Victoria's Secret owner Les Wexner</a> pulled funding.Eventually, the presidents of the schools, Claudine Gay and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/penn-president-magill-resigns-after-intense-backlash-congressional-testimony-2023-12">Liz Magill</a>, respectively, stepped down.

Billionaire Columbia donor Leon Cooperman slams student protesters

<ul class="summary-list"><li>New York Police Department officers in riot gear entered Columbia University's Hamilton Hall.</li><li>Dozens of protesters were taken by police into busses in zip ties, The New York Times reported.</li></ul>New York Police Department officers in riot gear entered Columbia University's Hamilton Hall Tuesday evening, which had been occupied by protesters for roughly 20 hours, according to multiple news reports.According to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/30/nyregion/columbia-protests-college">The New York Times</a>, the NYPD entered the building using a makeshift bridge that allowed them to climb into the second-story window. CNN reported that the NYPD said it had used "distraction devices" to disperse students but denied reports that tear gas was deployed.Dozens of protesters were taken by police into busses in zip ties, and as they were being bussed away, many chanted, "Free Palestine," the Times reported. The university announced later in the evening that the building had been cleared of protesters and that "heightened activity" had concluded, per the Times.Videos from student groups on the scene show protesters being <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/NationalSJP/status/1785482293542301804">pushed off campus by police</a>. The Washington Post reported that some police entered the hall with <a target="_blank" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/04/30/columbia-university-protests-palestine-news/#link-VTS5AUCISFFCRIX7EM65MIQUOU">guns drawn</a>.The university requested that students shelter in place before police entered the campus building.Student groups had been demonstrating on campus for days, setting up tents and camping out at the Ivy League University to protest Israel's war on Gaza. Demands for the protest included that the university cut financial ties to Israel.The university's $13.6 billion endowment includes investments in several weapons manufacturers and tech companies that do business with the Israeli government, which the student coalition Columbia University Apartheid Divest described as profiting "from Israeli apartheid, genocide, and military occupation of Palestine," <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/27/business/columbia-history-divestment-student-protests/index.html">CNN</a> reported. On Tuesday, protesters entered Hamilton Hall, a humanities building on the university's Morningside Heights campus, and barricaded themselves indoors.Columbia announced in a statement that students who occupied Hamilton Hall will face expulsion, while students who participated in encampments and refused to leave at the university's direction will face suspension.Columbia University, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, and the NYPD did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.Columbia released a statement Tuesday evening saying it gave the NYPD the green light to enter the campus and disperse student protesters."We regret that protesters have chosen to escalate the situation through their actions," adding, "We made the decision, early in the morning, that this was a law enforcement matter, and that the NYPD were best positioned to determine and execute an appropriate response." The school also said the protesters had been "led by individuals who are not affiliated with the University." In a live broadcast, reporters at Columbia student news station WKCR noted that only Columbia ID holders could be on campus and questioned the university's security.Columbia's President Minouche Shafik requested <a target="_blank" href="https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/news/letter-nypd-apr-30">in a letter</a> to the NYPD that the police maintain a presence on campus until May 17 to shut down any future encampments. At least two New York representatives spoke out against Columbia's decision to let NYPD forcibly remove students from Hamilton Hall.Rep. Jamaal Bowman said he was "outraged by the level of police presence called upon nonviolent student protestors" at Columbia and The City College of New York — another New York institution with students staging a similar encampment."As an educator who has first hand experience with the over-policing of our schools, this is personal to me," Bowman posted on X. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that if students were hurt by the NYPD, the responsibility would fall on the university president and New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who expressed support for ending the encampments at Columbia University."Other leaders and schools have found a safe, de-escalatory path. This is the opposite of leadership and endangers public safety. A nightmare in the making," Ocasio-Cortez <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/AOC/status/1785476041089188198">wrote on X.</a> Bowman and Ocasio-Cortez did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<h2>Mass detentions spark comparisons to previous protests</h2>History is repeating itself, users on X are saying after journalists pointed out that 56 years ago on this exact date, Columbia University deployed police onto the campus to disperse peaceful student protesters in Hamilton Hall.Per an archival issue of the <a target="_blank" href="https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/1968/bust">Columbia Daily Spectator</a> on the university's website, on Tuesday, April 30, 1968, NYPD police officers arrested over 700 people on Columbia's campus who protested against anti-Black racism and the Vietnam War.This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

Massive NYPD presence clears pro-Palestine student protesters at Columbia

<ul class="summary-list"><li>On Tuesday night, the NYPD entered <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/columbia-university-pro-palestine-israel-gaza-protests-timeline-2024-4">Columbia University to break up ongoing protests</a>.</li><li>Other press couldn't go on campus, so the student radio station was the only source of on-the-ground reporting.</li></ul>On Tuesday night, as the police entered the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nypd-columbia-university-students-protesters-hamilton-hall-arretsts-2024-4">Columbia University campus and arrested 300 protesters</a>, I did something I don't usually do to get breaking news: I turned off the TV, I closed X, and I turned on the radio.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/">WKCR</a> 89.9 FM, Columbia's student radio station, was broadcasting live from inside the campus about what was happening as the NYPD arrived.Outside news outlets weren't allowed onto campus, which is gated. So that meant Columbia's own student journalists were the only on-the-ground reporters.The <a target="_blank" href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/">Columbia Daily Spectator</a>, the student newspaper, has been doing an admirable job reporting on an ongoing event that has attracted major national attention. But on Tuesday night, the nature of the breaking news event as the NYPD marched past the campus gates around 9:30 p.m. meant that it was the radio station's turn to shine.The radio broadcast was anchored by a young woman who deftly tossed to reporters in the field and the studio. Under such extreme circumstances, it was a highly professional affair — and the reporters were careful with their words and facts. But there were also moments when the field reporters sounded scared, and you could hear a lot of commotion in the background.Social media, specifically live video, has been a game changer for covering protests and large social actions. A decade ago, the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/justice-department-report-on-ferguson-2015-9">protests in Ferguson, Missouri</a>, were live-streamed on early platforms like Ustream or Livestream. By the mid-2010s, all the social platforms went all-in on livestreaming — encouraging the more banal, like an <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/watermelon-rubberband-explosion-buzzfeed-video-2016-4">exploding watermelon</a>.A few years later, Twitter Live and Instagram Live were important parts of documenting the 2020 George Floyd protests and the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/five-things-we-learned-about-the-insurrection-in-2022-2023-1">January 6 riot</a>. And audio streams like Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces started to garner big audiences.But in the situation at Columbia, all those new-tech platforms fell short — and what worked was the nearly century-old platform of an over-the-air radio signal. (I left messages for the radio station but didn't hear back — likely because the students are taking a well-deserved break, which they referenced in an <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="c-link c-link--underline" href="https://twitter.com/WKCRFM/status/1785552132722069571">X post</a>. And as of Wednesday morning, the station was back to playing its regular jazz music.) The world tuned into the radio station — with a caveat. Word spread over X to tune into WKCR either on the real radio band or via its online streams. I live outside the station's signal, and its online stream was glitchy due to high demand, so I tuned in via its Instagram Live. Hasan Piker played part of the radio broadcast during a livestream on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2133752665">his popular Twitch channel</a>, where more than 33,000 people concurrently tuned in to listen. Tech platforms helped support a tiny radio signal to reach a national audience of people who wanted to hear real reporting on what was going on.X used to be the best place for real-time news events and reporting, and it still is if you compare it to, say, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/threads-app">Threads</a>. But <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/did-elon-musk-buy-twitter-acquisition-details">Elon Musk's systematic dismantling of the old Twitter</a> means everything feels less reliable. The old blue-check verification system gave people some sense that an account posting a video or information was probably reliable; the paid blue-check system does not. Scrolling through my X feed last night was disorienting and confusing.The actual events on the Columbia campus on Tuesday night are, of course, more important than the fact that its radio station went viral. But for a moment, I'd like to set aside the actual substance of the campus protest and the police action. Moments like Tuesday night are critical to understanding the world, and it is important to consider the medium of the news in these moments —how it travels, who it reaches, and what technology touches and shapes it. And so, for one night, a small college radio station that usually plays jazz and classical music with a handful of student journalists was the medium for telling the biggest news story in the country.

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