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Students occupying Columbia building face expulsion, university says - BBC News Students occupying Columbia building face expulsion, university says - BBC News
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As we reported a short while ago, Columbia administrators have warned that students currently occupying Hamilton Hall "face expulsion". Brandon Drenon
Protesters who did not comply with the university's deadline to leave their encampment by Monday afternoon at 2 pm local time are already now being suspended. BBC News
"We made it very clear yesterday that the work of the University cannot be endlessly interrupted by protesters who violate the rules," spokesperson Ben Chang said in a statement shared on the school's website. More than 1,000 students have been arrested in less than two weeks during these protests.
"Continuing to do so will be met with clear consequences... We gave everyone at the encampment the opportunity to leave peacefully." For those in their final year of college, the risk of punishment is particularly significant - and now perhaps more so with Columbia's expulsion announcement.
"One
of the first things we had to consider was that we might not be able to
walk during commencement ceremony at Yale on May 20," Craig Birckhead-Morton, one of the student protesters at Yale University in Connecticut says.
As we reported earlier, Craig was arrested and charged with trespassing.
"We might not receive our diplomas. We might not receive our final transcripts. All of these things are important to me," he says.
"In
many ways, it's sort of scarier, particularly for students, than the prospect of
our actual legal charges."
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