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UPDATE: Dozens of protesters have just exited Milbank Hall on 120th Street. They are chanting and marching toward Riverside Drive on the surrounding sidewalk.

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UPDATE: The Barnard Administration has issued a “final request” to protesters, warning that if they do not disperse by 10:30p.m. they will be “subject to disciplinary action.” The notice is pictured below.

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According to a Bulletin reporter inside Milbank, student liaisons for the protesters will soon be going into Grinage’s office to set a meeting for negotiations at a later date. Professor liaisons for the Dean stated that her understanding is that protesters will disperse after.

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UPDATE: According to a Bulletin reporter on the scene, as of 9:55p.m. there are over ten NYPD vehicles parked on Riverside Drive near Milbank Hall, some of which are part of the Strategic Response Group (SRG).

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The statement continued: “We have made multiple good-faith efforts to de-escalate. Barnard leadership offered to meet with the protesters - just as we meet with all members of our community -  on one simple condition: remove their masks. They refused.”

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UPDATE: As of 8:48p.m., The Bulletin has received a statement from Barnard Media Relations that if protesters do not leave Milbank Hall by 9:30p.m., “Barnard will be forced to consider additional, necessary measures to protect our campus.”

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The statement also alleges that protesters “physically assaulted a Barnard employee, sending them to the hospital” upon “forcibly entering Milbank Hall” earlier today.

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BREAKING: Students have begun an “emergency sit-in” in Milbank Hall at Barnard College. Protesters are occupying the hall outside the Dean’s office to demand that the College reinstate the two students expelled earlier this week for disrupting a “History of Modern Israel” class.

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BREAKING: There is currently an active fire on one of the upper floors of Altschul Hall on Barnard’s campus. Students in The Milstein Center were asked to shelter in place. FDNY vehicles are lined up outside campus on Broadway.

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This marks the beginning of the Jewish holiday, Sukkot, which is often celebrated by the building of a sukkah, or a small temporary hut.

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BREAKING: An “independent group of anti-Zionist Jews” have established a “liberation sukkah” on Columbia’s Math Lawn, according to Columbia JVP and Columbia University Apartheid Divest.

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Cynthia Nixon (BC ‘88), activist and star of Sex and the City, was one of multiple speakers at the faculty teach-in.

Referring to student protesters, Nixon said “We should be proud of them, I know I am.”

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BREAKING: Barnard Faculty are holding a teach-in on the steps of Barnard Hall. With a banner that says “BARNARD COMMUNITY IN CRISIS: A FACULTY TEACH IN,” the faculty are calling for the College to reinstate students in disciplinary proceedings “in the fullest capacity.”

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BREAKING: Columbia President Minouche Shafik resigned from office, announced in an email to the Columbia community on Wednesday evening.
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UPDATE: In a circulating video, a student appears to have been pushed down the steps in front of #Columbia's Hamilton Hall by a police officer.

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As NYPD and emergency medical services remain in the vicinity, spectators on 116th and Broadway and Law Bridge at #Columbia are making peace signs and chanting.

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As protests continue on #Columbia's campus, protestors on Broadway and 116th are singing, "Your people are my people" and "we shall not be moved."

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In a statement released by a #Columbia spokesperson, NYPD arrived on campus on the University's request. "We have made it clear that the life of campus cannot be endlessly interrupted by protesters who violate the rules and the law," the spokesperson said.

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Student protestors are currently being arrested by NYPD in front of #Columbia's Hamilton Hall.

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SWAT is using trucks with attached ladders to enter #Columbia's Hamilton Hall on 116th and Amsterdam.