Columbia University placed at least 65 students on interim suspension Friday, and barred another 33 from campus after the anti-Israel protesters forced their way into the Butler Library reading room Wednesday and refused to leave, according to JNS.

Columbia University acting President Claire Shipman called in the NYPD to clear the reading room after the students involved would not identify themselves or disperse.

Shipman said Columbia’s administration “spent substantial time working to defuse the situation in multiple ways, through Public Safety and Delegate visits to the students,” as well as conversations with professors, before calling the police.

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