Columbia Tightens Campus Rules As Protests Surge, Students Return

NEW YORK, Aug 30 (index treasure) – The new school year is still days away. But, student protesters have already returned, noisily, to Columbia University in New York. It is the epicenter of a pro-Palestinian protest movement that spread to schools worldwide this spring. About 50 protesters marched on the sidewalk Sunday evening. They blew whistles, banged drums, and clanged pots, pans, and the closed campus gates. They shouted pro-Palestinian chants. Above them, a police drone hovered. Inside the gates, over 1,000 new Columbia undergraduates had gathered for a convocation.…

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