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Campus protests live: NYC police arrest around 300 at universities in 'massive operation', mayor says - BBC News Campus protests live: NYC police arrest around 300 at universities in 'massive operation', mayor says - BBC News
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Eleanor Doyle Columbia has just sent out a note that it is suspending media access to its campus "as a safety measure".
BBC Newsbeat The statement notes that Hamilton Hall is "an active crime scene" under police investigation, and the campus will only be accessible to those with university IDs or "essential personnel".
Nour Idriss is a journalism student at Columbia University. In a statement earlier on Wednesday, President Minouche Shafik said the events of the past few days have "filled me with deep sadness. I am sorry we reached this point".
The 36-year-old student describes the past few days as a “rollercoaster”, and says other journalism students were sleeping in Pulitzer Hall “continuously trying to cover the encampment and the protests”. "It is going to take time to heal, but I know we can do that together," she wrote.
Speaking to BBC Newsbeat earlier today, she tells me: “There were days when we expected complete chaos and madness, and things were peaceful.
“And then there were nights like last night, that was just absolute chaos.”
Idriss adds that the mood last night, immediately before the police raid, as also being tense.
“Everybody was very much agitated, especially when we anticipated the police sweep."
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