Columbia Students Occupy Building as Campus Protests Spread

  • Columbia starts suspending students; Yale clears encampment
  • Texas officers use pepper spray, make arrests at UT Austin
Demonstrators barricade themselves inside Hamilton Hall on the campus of Columbia University on April 30.Photographer: Alex Kent/Getty Images
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US colleges from Columbia to UCLA are rushing to confront pro-Palestinian demonstrations, with disciplinary actions escalating and campus life thrown into turmoil as the academic year comes to a close.

At Columbia in New York, dozens of students entered a campus building known as Hamilton Hall after midnight Tuesday and barricaded themselves inside, piling tables and chairs to block doors and covering security cameras, the university’s student newspaper reported.