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   Meet the Columbia Radicals Arrested for    
   09 Mar 25 08:48:09   
   
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   Students were charged with disorderly conduct, trespassing, and   
   obstructing governmental administration   
      
   https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/IMG_1112-614x491.png   
      
   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.   
      
      
   A screenshot of Gabrielle Wimer's LinkedIn before it was deleted.   
   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.   
      
      
   Hannah Puelle's LinkedIn photo.   
   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.   
      
      
   A screenshot of Yunseo Chung's LinkedIn before it was deleted.   
   Cannon is the deputy editor of Columbia Spectator’s weekly magazine, the   
   Eye, but the page appears to have been removed.   
      
      
   A screenshot of Symmes Cannon's page on the Columbia Spectator website   
   before it was 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."   
      
      
   A screenshot of Tramy Dong's intern bio.   
   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   
      
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