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Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 16:26:53 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

NYPD is right now about to storm Columbia University in NYC after protesters against genocide occupied a university building.
Here’s something interesting from the Uhiversity website.
In conversation about 7 months ago from hachyderm.io permalink
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1. Columbia is a far different place today than it was in the spring of 1968 when protesters took over University buildings amid discontent about the Vietnam War, racism and the University's proposed expansion into Morningside Park. After a weeklong standoff, New York City Police stormed the campus and arrested more than 700 people. The fallout dogged Columbia for years. It took decades for the University to recover from those turbulent times. Columbia now has one of the most socio-economically diverse student bodies among its peer institutions. It has added a new campus designed to be open to the community and pursues fields of inquiry unheard of a half-century ago. Columbia is commemorating the 50th anniversary of those long-ago events with a deep dive of scholarship and exhibits chronicling what happened then and its effects today.
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