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Columbia AAUP chapter faculty statement, posted online by classics professor Joseph A. Howley and read aloud on WKCR: "Columbia faculty have spent the day offering our help to defuse the situation on Columbia’s campus and have been rebuffed or ignored."

Faculty Statement on Imminent Police Action at Columbia University
Columbia University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors
For immediate release: April 30, 2024, 8:00pm
At this hour, the NYPD is massing on barricaded streets outside the gates of Columbia University. Columbia faculty have spent the day offering our help to defuse the situation on Columbia's campus and have been rebuffed or ignored. We have been locked out of our campus and have demanded to be allowed back in, and have been rebuffed or ignored. This is not new. Columbia faculty have attempted for the past two weeks to intervene in the situation, only to be shut out by senior University leadership.
NYPD presence in our neighborhood endangers our entire community. Armed police entering our campus places students and everyone else on campus at risk. That is why University statutes require consultation with faculty - statutes which appear to have been ignored since April 17, and again tonight. ...
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Ttimuckun.bsky.social

The resistance to divestment has been intense.

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CMcaitesq.bsky.social

This is heartbreaking.

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trickyc66.bsky.social

transcript of university arrempts to diffuse the situation: "go home. come awwwwn! let us keep endorsing genocide. you're mean! you're hurting the money's feelings? did thatmean nothing to you??"

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WKCR keeps crashing, then giving me an error message when I try to refresh the page.

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Rreadingrenee.bsky.social

Aren’t they the ones who started this though?

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WKCR is struggling to keep their digital stream online because of massive traffic. They recommend using something called an "FM radio" if you have one.

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TStonysomo.bsky.social

So clearly Columbia’s administration and Trustees want ONLY to prevail. How unfortunate.

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Beetlejosh Beetlejosh
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Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review. Copy chief at Columbia Magazine.
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