The Columbia College Class of 2024 — including many students whose high school graduations were canceled during the pandemic — graduated Tuesday morning at a smaller, toned-down ceremony that included a handful of low-key pro-Palestinian displays. Columbia scrapped its university-wide commencement amid ongoing protests over the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas that peaked with the takeover of an academic building, Hamilton Hall, when administrators summoned the NYPD for the second time this spring. “It’s been super tumultuous, a very fitting end to our experience I think, considering the way we started,” said Samantha Velasquez, a neuroscience and political...