The Crackdown on Student Protesters

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🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Columbia University has become the epicenter of a growing showdown between student protesters, college administrators and Congress over the war in Gaza and the limits of free speech. Nicholas Fandos, who covers New York politics and government for The Times, walks us through the intense week at the university. And Isabella Ramírez, the editor in chief of Columbia’s undergraduate newspaper, explains what it has all looked like to a student on campus. Guest: Nicholas Fandos, who covers New York politics and government for The New York Times Isabella Ramírez, editor in chief of the Columbia Daily Spectator

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0:00.0	I can hear the helicopter circling. This is all such a baby. I'm a producer with the daily.
0:12.0	Just a... This is Ausa, I'm a producer with the Daily.
0:14.4	Just walked out of the 116th Street station.
0:18.5	It's the main station for Columbia's
0:21.4	Morningside Heights campus.
0:24.4	And it's day seven of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment,
0:32.3	where 100 students were arrested last
0:35.2	Thursday. So on one side of Baudet you see camera crews you see NYPD officers all lined up there's of
0:44.1	you see camera crews you see NYPD officers all lined up there's barricades steel barricades
0:46.5	caution tape this is normally a completely open campus and I'm able to, all members of the public are able to walk through.
0:57.4	Looks like international media is here.
1:02.1	Have your ID's out, Have your ID's out.
1:04.0	Have your ID's out?
1:05.0	Students lining up to swipe in to get access to the university.
1:09.0	ID required for entry.
1:11.0	Um...
1:12.0	Swipe your ID. Hi. Um... So I be Ade.
1:13.0	Hi, how are you?
1:15.0	Sir. We're journalists with the New York Times.
1:17.0	You're not going to be to get in.
1:19.0	All right?
1:20.0	Sorry. Thank you.
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