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#22726336 at 2025-03-08 20:10:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27764: Trump's Reset Is Best Reset Ever - REEEEEEESET Edition
Meet the Columbia Radicals Arrested for Storming a Barnard Building
Students were charged with disorderly conduct, trespassing, and obstructing governmental administration
Nearly half the radical activists arrested Wednesday after storming a Barnard College library are Columbia University students, a Washington Free Beacon review found.
Of the nine individuals arrested after stormingMillstein Library, four are Columbia students: Gabrielle Wimer, Hannah Puelle, Yunseo Chung, and Symmes Cannon. One, Tramy Dong, is a Barnard student. Another, Christopher Holmes, attends Union Theological Seminary, a Columbia affiliate, while the remaining three appear unassociated with either school. They were charged with disorderly conduct, trespassing, and obstructing governmental administration, according to an NYPD spokesman.
Barnard president Laura Ann Rosenbury, however, stressed that the police weren't called in because the radicals stormed Milstein Library. Rather, she felt the building needed to be cleared to protect the broader student body because of a bomb threat in the building.
The radicals rushed in through a back exit that an accomplice held open, hoisted an effigy of Rosenbury, and passed out Hamas propaganda. They refused to leave, even after they were alerted of the bomb threat. Law enforcement eventually cleared the agitators from the library, but the protesters refused to clear the courtyard outside and clashed with police. Officers began making arrests.
Wimer is a medical student at Columbia's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. According to screenshots of her LinkedIn that has since been deleted, she is "passionate about global health and human rights" and has "experience in research, program management, and community outreach in multicultural settings." Wimer is the Class of 2025 president, the programming coordinator for Columbia's Human Rights and Asylum Clinic, and an active member of Columbia's chapters of White Coats for Black Lives and Students for a National Health Program, according to an online bio.
Puelle is a Columbia senior studying philosophy and sociology. The Columbia Undergraduate Law Review website listed her as its publisher, but the page was removed Thursday afternoon. Puelle is also a research assistant at Columbia's Labor Lab, according to her LinkedIn. A source familiar with Puelle said she was a resident adviser in the first-year residence dormitory John Jay Hall. She is also a member of Columbia's Resident Advisers Collective Bargaining Committee, according to the Columbia Spectator.
The third, Chung, is a Columbia junior pursuing her bachelor's degree in English and Women's and Gender Studies. According to a screenshot of her LinkedIn taken before it was deleted, she is involved in Columbia's Criminal Justice Coalition and Columbia's Queer Alliance and was the valedictorian of the high school she attended.
Cannon is the deputy editor of Columbia Spectator's weekly magazine, the Eye, but the page appears to have been removed.
Even though it was a Barnard building that was stormed, the focus will likely center more on Columbia because its students make up the bulk of those arrested. Since President Donald Trump took office, the university has taken a more aggressive posture toward its anti-Semitic students. In the past, however, it has been lenient. It dropped the vast majority of the suspensions leveled against students who participated in illegal anti-Israel protests last spring, for example.
"We have been notified that four Columbia students were arrested as part of yesterday's disruption at Barnard's Milstein Library and we are working swiftly through our discipline process. We regret that members of our community participated in this unacceptable disruption at Barnard," a Columbia spokeswoman told the Free Beacon. "Any violations of our rules, policies, and of the law must have consequences. We remain committed to supporting our Columbia student body of over 36,000 students and our greater campus community during this cHallenging time."
In a statement sent to the Barnard community, Rosenbury said that the decision to allow NYPD on campus was due to the bomb threat, not the occupation of the campus library.
"The safety of our campus, and every single person on our campus, must be protected above all else. The moment we received the bomb threat, we had to clear the Milstein Center and inform the authorities," she said. "The decision to request NYPD assistance was guided and informed entirely by the absolute obligation we have to keep every member of our community safe..
https://freebeacon.com/campus/meet-the-columbia-radicals-arrested-for-storming-a-barnard-building/
#22723830 at 2025-03-08 06:37:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27761: ? Edition
Meet the Columbia Radicals Arrested for Storming a Barnard Building
Students were charged with disorderly conduct, trespassing, and obstructing governmental administration.
Nearly half the radical activists arrested Wednesday after storming a Barnard College library are Columbia University students, a Washington Free Beacon review found.
Of the nine individuals arrested after storming Millstein Library, four are Columbia students: Gabrielle Wimer, Hannah Puelle, Yunseo Chung, and Symmes Cannon. One, Tramy Dong, is a Barnard student. Another, Christopher Holmes, attends Union Theological Seminary, a Columbia affiliate, while the remaining three appear unassociated with either school. They were charged with disorderly conduct, trespassing, and obstructing governmental administration, according to an NYPD spokesman.
Barnard president Laura Ann Rosenbury, however, stressed that the police weren't called in because the radicals stormed Milstein Library. Rather, she felt the building needed to be cleared to protect the broader student body because of a bomb threat in the building.
The radicals rushed in through a back exit that an accomplice held open, hoisted an effigy of Rosenbury, and passed out Hamas propaganda. They refused to leave, even after they were alerted of the bomb threat. Law enforcement eventually cleared the agitators from the library, but the protesters refused to clear the courtyard outside and clashed with police. Officers began making arrests.
Wimer is a medical student at Columbia's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. According to screenshots of her LinkedIn that has since been deleted, she is "passionate about global health and human rights" and has "experience in research, program management, and community outreach in multicultural settings." Wimer is the Class of 2025 president, the programming coordinator for Columbia's Human Rights and Asylum Clinic, and an active member of Columbia's chapters of White Coats for Black Lives and Students for a National Health Program, according to an online bio.
Puelle is a Columbia senior studying philosophy and sociology. The Columbia Undergraduate Law Review website listed her as its publisher, but the page was removed Thursday afternoon. Puelle is also a research assistant at Columbia's Labor Lab, according to her LinkedIn. A source familiar with Puelle said she was a resident adviser in the first-year residence dormitory John Jay Hall. She is also a member of Columbia's Resident Advisers Collective Bargaining Committee, according to the Columbia Spectator.
The third, Chung, is a Columbia junior pursuing her bachelor's degree in English and Women's and Gender Studies. According to a screenshot of her LinkedIn taken before it was deleted, she is involved in Columbia's Criminal Justice Coalition and Columbia's Queer Alliance and was the valedictorian of the high school she attended.
Cannon is the deputy editor of Columbia Spectator's weekly magazine, the Eye, but the page appears to have been removed.
Even though it was a Barnard building that was stormed, the focus will likely center more on Columbia because its students make up the bulk of those arrested. Since President Donald Trump took office, the university has taken a more aggressive posture toward its anti-Semitic students. In the past, however, it has been lenient. It dropped the vast majority of the suspensions leveled against students who participated in illegal anti-Israel protests last spring, for example.
"We have been notified that four Columbia students were arrested as part of yesterday's disruption at Barnard's Milstein Library and we are working swiftly through our discipline process. We regret that members of our community participated in this unacceptable disruption at Barnard," a Columbia spokeswoman told the Free Beacon. "Any violations of our rules, policies, and of the law must have consequences. We remain committed to supporting our Columbia student body of over 36,000 students and our greater campus community during this cHallenging time."
Columbia students Wimer, Puelle, Chung, and Cannon did not respond to requests for comment.
The only Barnard student arrested, Dong, is a junior studying computer science. She was listed as a communications intern with the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a nonprofit organization working to "fight against mass surveillance in New York and beyond"-the group's intern page was removed Thursday afternoon. According to an online bio, which was also removed, Dong is "interested in the intersection of technology and activism, hoping to learn more about surveillance systems and possible solutions." According to her LinkedIn, she is part of Barnard's Science Pathways Scholars Program, a "highly selective four-year program that supports young students from low-income or first-generation households."
Dong did not respond to a request for comment.
Barnard's vice president for development and alumnae relations Michael Farley, however, in a statement claimed that "none of the individuals arrested on our campus Wednesday evening are Barnard students." It is unclear if Dong was one of the two students the college expelled for storming an Israeli history class at Columbia in January and targeting Jewish students with anti-Semitic flyers. Barnard did not respond to a request for comment.
The radicals stormed Barnard's Milbank Hall last week to protest those expulsions. A third Barnard student was expelled soon after for storming a Columbia building last spring. The agitators behind Wednesday's incident demanded the reversal of all three.
A mob led by Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) and Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)-the Ivy League institution's most anti-Semitic student groups-stormed Barnard's Milbank Hall on Feb. 26, sending a security guard to the hospital and causing $30,000 in damages. CUAD and SJP also took credit for orchestrating Wednesday's incident at the Milstein Library.
Once inside, the agitators handed out Hamas propaganda justifying the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack. They demanded the immediate reversal of the Barnard students' expulsions, "amnesty for all students disciplined for pro-Palestine action," and a complete "abolition of the corrupt Barnard disciplinary process." They also renamed the library after Hussam Abu Safiya, a Gaza hospital director the Israel Defense Forces accused of being a terrorist and holding a rank in Hamas.
Even though the agitators voted to stay overnight, until Rosenbury returned to campus in the morning, a bomb threat reported in the building forced Barnard vice president for strategic communications Robin Levine to try to evacuate the library. She told students, "You need to leave now, this is not a joke," but the protesters refused to vacate the building, telling her, "you're lying" and "prove it."
NYPD Strategic Response Group officers were called to the scene and entered the occupied building, pushing most of the activists off campus. Those who resisted were among the nine arrested.
Holmes is a 26-year-old graduate student at the Columbia affiliate college Union Theological Seminary. He was arrested twice at Columbia during last spring's illegal pro-Hamas encampments, once on April 18 and again on April 30 over the violent occupation of Hamilton Hall and was charged with third degree criminal trespass. In September, Holmes was featured in a video posted to X where he called for "the overthrow of the corporate totalitarian state."
The last individuals arrested are 21-year-old Pranavi Davuluri, a student worker at New York City's School of Visual Arts, according to her LinkedIn, Alexander Nanci-Marr, 20, and Allison Wuu, 18.
In a statement sent to the Barnard community, Rosenbury said that the decision to allow NYPD on campus was due to the bomb threat, not the occupation of the campus library.
"The safety of our campus, and every single person on our campus, must be protected above all else. The moment we received the bomb threat, we had to clear the Milstein Center and inform the authorities," she said. "The decision to request NYPD assistance was guided and informed entirely by the absolute obligation we have to keep every member of our community safe."
https://freebeacon.com/campus/meet-the-columbia-radicals-arrested-for-storming-a-barnard-building/
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#188954 at 2024-05-04 23:09:25 (UTC+1)
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https://nypost.com/2024/04/30/opinion/i-witnessed-columbia-universitys-impotent-surrender-to-the-mob/
I witnessed Columbia University's impotent surrender to the mob(NYPost.com)
Luke Seminara
Pro-Palestinian protestors gather in front of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University.
Pro-Palestinian protestors gather in front of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University on Tuesday. OLGA FEDEROVA/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
At half-past-midnight yesterday, I received a text from a Columbia undergraduate friend: "They are attempting to occupy Hamilton Hall."
It goes without saying that things inside were hectic.
A couple students I know closely attempted to block the protesters from breaking into Hamilton, an audacious last stand that ended with them being shoved, grabbed, and later threatened anonymously.
Other friends dialed 911, troubled by ongoing vandalism and the very real possibility of an all-out brawl.
Outside, I saw your typical sign-waving, starry-eyed students, along with another darkly-clad cohort of protestors surveilling campus.
Their black balaclavas and combat boots made it clear they weren't Columbians.
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I first ran into a group of them fumbling with a chained campus gate.
Upon inquiring into their lock-shaking activities, I was met with a series of nasally-voiced expletives.
As un-intimidating as they sounded, I thought it would be a good idea to tell somebody.
This turned out to be a difficult task.
Since the beginning of the South Lawn "liberated zone," Columbia has outsourced border control to third-party contractors like Allied Universal and Apex Security.
Though there are plenty of guards, most of them sit around on their phones, headphones plugged in.
As it turns out, if you report suspicious behavior to them, they'll tell you to find someone else.
Thus I made my way around the school to a Columbia Public Safety booth, passing another balaclava-wearing band on Broadway.
Unfortunately, I was too late: online, videos were circulating of these outsiders climbing through the windows of John Jay Hall, a first-year dormitory.
Though Public Safety initially denied the break-in, students inside knew better and were panicking on social media.
The intruders reportedly fled after some time, but the university has refused to release a statement on the matter.
How assuring.
I spent the remainder of the evening talking to the handful of police officers stationed around campus.
Having arrived from all over the five boroughs, they were largely uninformed of what was happening inside.
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When I told them about 911 calls made by the student body, they insisted their dispatchers were silent: on-campus pleas for help were being diverted elsewhere, presumably through the nebulous bureaucracy that composes my alma mater.
Given Columbia's utter inaction that morning, it seems they were ultimately ignored.
The only reprieve from my growing dread was the police's willingness to follow me to those open John Jay windows.
By that point, however, the darkly-clad intruders were no longer around.
In hindsight, all of this was quite predictable.
Over the past few weeks, Columbia has proven itself to be politically impotent and bureaucratically inept, utterly incapable of resolute decision-making.
Pressured from all sides - from within and without - Columbia's leaders have sought to balance force and toleration, from suspending student protestors without arresting them, to hiring private security instead of involving law enforcement.
But we shouldn't be too compassionate.
As evidenced by the remorseful, ever-reluctant wording of the president's day-to-day statements, Columbia's concern for propriety merely prolongs the conflict at hand, putting students and the surrounding community in increasing danger.
Protestors have been calling the university's bluff, escalating things with no risk of immediate retaliation.
And, in keeping the police ill-informed and outside campus, there is little to deter outside agitators from sneaking in.
As if to concede to the chaos, Columbia shut down dining Halls and libraries, leaving students' final exams and graduation ceremonies up in the air.
In sum, my alma mater is barely functioning as a university, a fact now painfully obvious to the entire nation.
This is a very Ivy League tragedy: in seeking to preserve its reputation, image, and prestige, Columbia has rapidly depleted all these things.
As a first-hand witness of such self-destruction, I hope the embarrassment is lasting enough to elicit change.
Luke Seminara is a Columbia University '23 graduate working at an educational nonprofit in New York City.