Pro-Palestinian student groups described the students who have occupied Columbia University's Hamilton Hall since early Tuesday as an 'autonomous' subgroup of those involved in the encampment that had overtaken the Ivy League campus' West Lawn. Student groups, including Columbia Student Apartheid Divest and Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, said they are not specifically organizing the occupation of the academic building.
'Disruptions on campus have created a threatening environment for many,' Chang said, adding that the steps the school is taking are 'about responding to the actions of the protesters, not their cause.' Some students say the protest inside Hamilton Hall, renamed by those inside as 'Hind's Hall' — for a 6-year-old Palestinian girl killed in February amid the fighting in Gaza — is necessary to prod the university administration to their side.
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