Pro-Palestinian students stage sit-in at Barnard College to protest expulsions

A group of pro-Palestinian student protesters stormed a Barnard College building on Wednesday to protest the expulsion last month of two students who interrupted a university class on Israel. The demonstrators, who numbered in the dozens, staged a sit-in outside Barnard dean Leslie Grinage’s office in the college’s Milbank Hall, the Columbia Spectator reported. A Barnard employee was “physically assaulted” as students entered the building and was taken to an area hospital, a spokesperson for the college said in a statement. The 41-year-old man complained of “pain about the body”, the New York Times reported, citing a police spokesperson. He...