Education
Columbia Threatens to Expel Students Who Took Over Building
- Students occupy Hamilton Hall after Columbia began suspensions
- Yale protesters say they’ll return after police intervention
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At Columbia, student demonstrators who have barricaded themselves in a campus building are facing expulsion. At Yale, the police were called in to clear an encampment that protesters are vowing to reoccupy.
The unfolding events at the two schools represent the tough choices facing leaders at elite American universities, who are grappling with how to respond to increasingly confrontational pro-Palestinian protesters.