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Associated Press

Columbia University students protesters take over building. Dozens of protesters took over a building at Columbia University in New York April 30, barricading the entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag out of a window. Protesters on Columbia’s Manhattan campus locked arms in front of Hamilton Hall and carried furniture and metal barricades to the building, one of several that was occupied during a 1968 civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protest, video footage showed. While the university didn’t call police to roust the demonstrators, school spokesperson Ben Chang said suspensions had started but could provide few details.

On university campuses in the Vietnam era, opposition to the war galvanized a mass movement. But the conflict over Gaza involves two groups with passionate and personal views on a complex political issue.