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Less than 24 hours after the NYPD cleared the original Gaza Solidarity Encampment and arrested more than 100 students, Columbia protesters had already reoccupied the lawn in front of Butler Library. Palestinian flags and hand-painted signs cover the grass in front of Butler Library as students gather at the rebuilt Gaza Solidarity Encampment on West Butler Lawn. The library’s facade, inscribed with the names of Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Cicero, and Virgil, glows behind them....

A column of NYPD officers marches across the intersection of Broadway and West 116th Street, directly outside Columbia University’s main gates, on the afternoon of April 18, 2024. Metal crowd-control barricades line the perimeter as onlookers, students, and members of the press watch from the sidewalk near Miller Theatre and the steps leading up to campus. NYPD officers cross Broadway at W 116th Street outside Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus. Barricades separate crowds from the roadway as buses and police vehicles stage in the background....