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   Meet the Columbia Radicals Arrested for    
   09 Mar 25 08:48:09   
   
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   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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