‘We do not feel safe walking to nor around campus’
Columbia University students are calling on the school’s president, Minouche Shafik, to restore order as chaotic protests and violent clashes near campus plague the Ivy League institution.
Columbia students wrote in a Friday letter that they do not feel safe amid ongoing protests that began Wednesday, when Shafik testified to Congress on her response to campus anti-Semitism. Protesters have refused to leave a “Gaza Solidarity” tent encampment, prompting suspensions and arrests, and violent confrontations have taken place just outside the school.
“We, students at Columbia University, feel categorically threatened by unaffiliated protesters on and off campus,” the students wrote. “Further, the large, unrelenting protests surrounding campus obfuscate…
