New York (AP) -The Columbia University has excluded or suspended some students who took over a camp building last spring during Propalestinian protests and temporarily revoked the diplomas of others who have been completing since then, the officials said on Thursday.
The university said in a campus-wide email that a judicial authority brought in a number of sanctions against students who occupied the Hamilton Hall last spring to protest the war in Gaza.
Columbia did not provide any breakdown of how many students were excluded, suspended or their degrees were revoked, but it is said that the results were based on an “evaluation of the severity of behavior”.
The highlight of the months of examination process takes place, since the university separates last Saturday by arresting a well-known Palestinian campus activist Mahmoud Khalil by the federal immigration authorities, Mahmoud Khalil. President Donald Trump said that the arrest would be the “first of many” such imprisonment.
At the same time, the Trump government has robbed the university of more than 400 million US dollars of federal funds about what it describes it as non -fighting campus anti -Semitism. The Republicans of the Congress have specifically pointed out a failure to discipline students who are involved in the Hamilton Hall segment as the inactivity of the university.
The building profession followed a tent camp that inspired a wave of similar demonstrations on the college campus across the country.
On April 30, 2024, a smaller group of students and their allies in the Hamilton Hall were barrined with furniture and pads in a vast escalation of campus protests.
At the request of the university manager, hundreds of New York police stormed on the campus the following night and arrested dozens of people who were involved in both the crew and in the warehouse.
At a court hearing in June, the Manhattan public prosecutor said that there would be no criminal complaint for 31 of the 46 people who were originally arrested for violation in the administration building.
However, the students were still exposed to disciplinary hearings and possible expulsion from the university.
The final sanctions announced on Thursday followed a long process in which the hearings for every student under the direction of the long -standing judicial body of the university were involved.
Some students who have joined the camp but did not take part in the assumption that they were not exposed to any further discipline beyond their earlier suspensions.
“With regard to other events last spring, the previously raised provisions of the UJB recognized disciplinary measures,” said the university in a statement.
The disciplinary process controled disciplinary documents from students who are involved in protests on campus, or risk billions of dollars of federal finance by the university administrators who demanded the university administrators.
On Thursday, Khalil and seven of pseudonyms identified a lawsuit submitted a lawsuit in which a congress committee was held from receiving such records for students at Columbia and Barnard College, a women’s facility associated with Columbia.
Submitted against the two schools in front of a federal court in Manhattan; The house committee for education and workforce led by Republicans; and his chairman, Republican MP Tim Walberg from Michigan; The lawsuit requests a eternal injunction that prevents the congress from force the schools to provide the records and the universities from compliance with compliance.
Last month, the committee sent a letter in which Columbia and Barnard provided the records or risk promotion. The plaintiffs argue in the complaint that the committee uses its authority to “cool and suppress and suppress language and union” on the basis of the expressed point of view “and” threatens to significantly violate the rights of first change “.
In a statement sent by a spokesman for the committee by e -mail, Walberg said: “This lawsuit does not change anything.”
The requested information “is of crucial importance for the consideration of the legislation on this topic” in order to “go to our College campus for their failures to combat temporal anti -Semitism,” he added.
Barnard spokesman did not immediately respond to e -mails that applied for a comment, and Columbia refused to discuss the pending legal disputes.
Irrespective of this, a newly created disciplinary committee has a number of novel cases against student intent, expressed criticism of Israel and triggered the alarm in the supporters of the freedom of speech. Khalil was not one of the demonstrators who were accused of confiscating the Hamilton Hall.
The termination of exclusion praised some faculty members, including Gil Zensman, chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering and member of the Task Force in Columbia for anti -Semitism.
“Finally to demonstrate that breaking the university rules is an important first step to return to the core missions of research and teaching,” he said in a contribution on the social platform X.
