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Walking in the footsteps of history

Connecticut Hall, the oldest building on Yale’s campus, exemplifies colonial architecture. It is the only surviving building from the Old Brick Row (circa 1750-1752), which was the first linear campus plan in the United States and a template for American college campuses built in the 19th century.

It is also a stop on the new self-guided walking tour app that the university debuted on February 16, along with Yale and Slavery: A History and an exhibition in the New Haven Museum. The project is a culmination of the efforts of the Yale and Slavery Working Group, convened in October 2020 by President Peter Salovey and led by David Blight, Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center.

Take the tour now: The Yale University Special Topic Tour: History of Slavery can be downloaded to any smart phone.

The app guides participants on a campus tour consisting of 19 sites, each of which is connected to the history of slavery at Yale. At each point on the tour, one can read text, listen to audio, and access photos and documents. The narration is performed by Michael Allyn Crawford and Whitney Andrews, students in the David Geffen School of Drama. In the case of Connecticut Hall, the records of Yale President Thomas Clap indicate that at least five enslaved men contributed to the building of the historic structure, including one who was enslaved to President Clap.

Although the written and digital contents of the app were developed by teams across Yale, the app itself is the creation of a team of IT staff members led by Netal Petal, a custom applications development manager at Yale Information Technology.

When embarking on their task, Patel and her team took to heart the somber significance of this project for the university and the weight of the content. “The subject of the app is very important for addressing Yale’s history with slavery,” said Kim Loveland, business systems analyst. “We think the app is a good counterpart to the rest of the Yale and Slavery Research Project, to have people walking around and physically connecting to the history and what the app is trying to teach,” she said.

A creative process

Developing an app, no matter the subject, is a creative process. Loveland likened it to making a movie where you start with an idea and a script. “Once a script from the client is in hand, you study the requirements for the project,” she said. “You need a director, like Netal; actors, our experienced team; and a set, the mobile app. Everybody has a part to play, bringing their expertise to the table. All the elements come together and we ‘screen the movie’ in the testing phase, to make sure that the end-product is what we and the client envisioned.”

In addition to Patel and Loveland, the IT team included Javier Noriega, project manager; Jesús Uresti Rangel, technical lead; Nestor Rodriguez Ayala, software engineer; Sneha Bhat, software engineer; Grecia Briseno, UX designer; Enrique Perez and Abimael Jaimes, both quality assurance testers.

Uresti noted, “We chose the technology that fit best given the requirements, and based on our choice, selected the experts who know the chosen technology. We needed to find the right developers with the right skills.”

Confronting the past, one swipe at a time

Patel said that once the requirements were met during development with Rodriguez Ayala and Bhat, the app was designed with a focus on user-experience. “We worked very closely with the user interface and user experience team when we designed the screens—in this case with Grecia Briseno,” said Patel.

The quality-assurance testing took place next, led by Perez and Jaimes. “Functional testing and accessibility testing were done followed by user-acceptance testing, working with the working group—all to make sure that the product met the end-user needs,” said Patel.

“We want the users’ experiences to be smooth,” said Loveland. “It must be obvious to them right away what they should be doing—where to press, swipe, or scroll to get to the content that the client and the developers want them to experience.”

The team did not take lightly their charge to convey the complexity and the gravity of the subject matter to the end user. Said Noriega, “When I started reviewing the text, the audios, the pictures, just everything that we worked with to create this app, I was amazed at the amount of responsibility Yale is taking; how Yale wants to confront this issue of the past and show it to the world, so it does not happen again. I am really proud of being able to work on this project to help Yale take action.”

“I’ve worked on other educational applications before, but this one is special,” said Rodriguez Ayala. “I learned a lot from being on this very multi-cultural team, and a lot about the history of slavery at Yale. These topics were new to me, and the app is a great way to allow other people to know about them. I feel especially proud that I’m able to provide users with new information to help them understand new things.”

To learn more about the university’s actions, commitments, and response to date, please visit the  Yale and Slavery Research Project’s website .

Yale and Slavery: A History, by David W. Blight with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, was published by Yale University Press. This narrative history is a comprehensive examination of how slavery and resistance to it have shaped this university. You can order the book or download a digital version for free on the  Yale and Slavery Research Project’s website .

The exhibition at the New Haven Museum runs through summer 2024 and there is no charge for admission.

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Two exhibits offer a timeline of the university’s history and showcase the achievements of a number of Yale’s graduates and faculty.

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Explore Yale on your own schedule. The Yale Admissions Campus Tour app offers an enriched walking tour experience for visitors who are unable to attend a live tour. Welcome to Yale and New Haven! The Yale Admissions Campus Tour app includes: Photo content at each stop, with interior and exterior views of campus buildings. Audio narration and text at each stop. Turn-by-turn walking directions to take the guesswork out of navigating a new campus. Yale Undergraduate Admissions contact information.

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The Morris Steinert Collection of Musical Instruments contains more than 1,000 objects including instruments, instrument accessories, and more.

The Collection focuses on western European and North American art-music traditions, yet its holdings from musical cultures all over the world, including Asia, Africa, and Latin America, are continually growing. Many of the instruments in the Collection have been restored and are maintained in playing condition, allowing for their use in performances, demonstrations, and lectures, and on tour.

Instruments at the Collection

At the Morris Steinert Collection of Musical Instruments, it’s easy to see and appreciate the art of the luthier. The Collection is home to a selection of string instruments from the Italian, German, French, and English schools of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries and includes the Steinert and Skinner collections, the extensive Emil Herrmann collection, and other individual donations. Many of the violin family instruments in the Collection are in playing condition, as are some of the viols and plucked-string instruments. Some highlights of the string instrument collection include violins by Nicolò Amati, Andrea Guarneri, Antonio Stradivari, and Jakob Steiner, a viola by Lorenzo Storioni, a viola d’amore by Joseph Gagliano, viols by Pietro Guarneri of Mantua and Richard Meares, a lute by Sebastian Schelle, and guitars by Joachim Tielke and Antonio de Torres.

Over the past four decades, the Morris Steinert Collection of Musical Instruments has been actively seeking to acquire wind instruments. The Collection’s holdings now include many 19th century American wind instruments, in addition to a core collection of instruments built by important 18th and 19th century European makers. Highlights include a  Deutsche schalmei  by Richard Haka, oboes by Jacob Denner, Johann Ferdinand Floth, and Guillaume Triébert,  cors anglais  by Henri Brod and Guillaume Triébert, flageolets by William Bainbridge, and Firth, Pond & Co., flutes by Thomas Cahusac, Sr., Thomas Stanesby, Jr., and Asa Hopkins, clarinets by Martin Frères and Johann Tobias Uhlmann, bassoons by William Milhouse, and Martin Lempp, a natural trumpet by Michael Sauerle, Sr., a circular cornet by Graves & Co., and a serpent by D’Almaine & Co.

The Collection’s holdings of percussion instruments include the Robyna Neilson Ketchum Collection of Bells, which was acquired in 1975 and contains more than 180 bells, gongs, clappers, temple blocks, and rattles from around the world. The Collection is also home to late-18th century military drums from France and the United States, a West African  kalangu  (a double-headed hourglass drum),   a Chinese  hua gu  (“flower drum”),   a set of mid-19th century American minstrel bones, and an English town-crier’s bell.

Asia, Africa + Latin America

The Collection first acquired a small number of Asian instruments from the Belle Skinner Collection in 1960. Since then, the Collection’s holdings have steadily grown to include instruments from the indigenous cultures of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Additionally, the Robyna Neilson Ketchum Collection of Bells contains bells from around the world. The Collection aims to increase its holdings by acquiring more instruments from various cultures. 

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Yale Campus Tours: All Your Options on How to Tour Yale University

(Updated October 2022, Originally Posted March 2021) Whether you’re visiting New Haven as a tourist or as a prospective student, touring Yale’s incredible campus in the heart of the city is one of the best (and free) activities to do here. Catch a glimpse into what life is like as a student at this world-class institution and soak in the bustling atmosphere of thriving campus life.  Yale’s official campus tours are the perfect opportunity to find out what student life is like, what campus clubs are available and what special features each college has to offer.

Here are 4 key pieces of advice for taking a tour at Yale University:

• Get there early to ensure you have a spot on the tour!
• Dress appropriately for outdoor touring.
• Go to the restrooms in the Visitor Center or the Office of Undergraduate Admissions before your tour begins. The 60-75 minute tours don’t have pit stops!
• Speak to your student guides. They are super friendly and are happy to answer your questions about their experiences.

Tour as a prospective student

Take in the sights of Yale’s campus through the eyes of a residing student and see if you can imagine yourself becoming one! September through May, Monday through Saturday, you can tour the residential colleges, libraries, green spaces and historical landmarks all while chatting with your student guide.

The university also offers specialized science and engineering tours that are led by students studying in those fields. Find out about the exciting programs, projects and research currently taking place in their labs.

All the sessions for prospective Yalies start at the Office of Undergraduate Admissions (38 Hillhouse Ave). If you’re walking there from New Haven Green, stop at the Blue State Coffee on Wall Street, a student hot spot opposite Silliman College, for a drink to go!

Alongside tours, there are many admissions events that you can join throughout the year including visiting a class and requesting an on-campus interview. Check out the admissions website for schedules and registration.

Tour as a visitor

From the Visitor Center on one side of New Haven Green (149 Elm Street), you can take your spot on one of the campus tours.  The tour starts with a very informative and playful video that gives a broad overview of what this university has to offer its students.  This 60-minute walking tour covers central campus and shares plenty of interesting details about Yale’s 300-year history as well as what life is like through the eyes of the student guide. Take a look in one of the 14 residential colleges, the impressive record-breaking libraries and walk the paths previously taken by Yale’s many famous alumni.

One of the best parts of the walking tours is getting to hear from the student guides!  Take advantage of your time to ask them questions and hear about their classes, extra-curriculars and student life in New Haven. Wondering where to go next for a snack or directions around the downtown area? Your guide will be happy to help!

Tours during the current COVID pandemic (updated July 2022)

Yale University once again offers in person tours! COVID-19 vaccination is required for visitors 5 and older.

You can book a tour online to register for a campus tour.

Whether it’s in person or virtual, Yale University is an impressive place to visit. When you get the chance, I highly recommend enjoying the sights in person! Even if it’s not through an official tour, Yale’s campus is a beautiful place to walk through all year round.

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Motion captured: ‘symphonic’ installation draws on movement of its visitors.

The universe is awash in sound.

So declared teams of scientists from around the world last summer. As reported in Smithsonian Magazine , the scientists said they’d discovered a new kind of gravitational wave that creates a constant, ambient hum. The findings suggested a “rolling, noisy universe alive with the cosmic symphony of gravitational waves.”

Those findings captivated Maggie Schnyer, now a Yale senior majoring in Computing and the Arts. After reading the article, Schnyer decided to create an interactive, mini universe of music of her own. Also a musician and assistant conductor of Yale’s Davenport Pops Orchestra, Schnyer set out to design an immersive installation that would use motion-capture technology to track visitors’ movements and create a collaborative piece of music.

Motion capture technology is used to record human movement and then translate that movement into a computerized form. It is commonly used in filmmaking, animation, video game design, and sports training.

Schnyer had seen motion capture tools used in combination with music, usually with dancers wearing suits fitted with sensors and producing sound in very meticulous ways. “I wanted to do something that was more accessible to anyone,” she said.

The project would also serve as her senior thesis. But first, Schnyer had a lot to learn.

Last semester she researched various motion capture music projects and started to familiarize herself with coding software for the audio and visual aspects of her project. She wanted to use projectors and lighting boards for the installation, something else she’d never done before.

“ I was learning everything as I was going through the project,” Schnyer said, “and I received so much guidance from my advisors.”

Working with Schnyer were Konrad Kaczmarek, an associate professor in the Department of Music in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Scott Petersen, a senior lecturer in Computing and the Arts, and Ross Wightman, technical manager at the Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM).

Her efforts culminated last month in an interactive motion-capture performance staged in CCAM’s Leeds Studio, which is equipped with a Vicon Motion Capture System.

Window shades blocking the light from outside twinkled with stars, a form of generative art Schnyer created with code. An ever-changing galaxy-like design, also one of her programs, glowed on a large screen at the front of the room.

A low hum could be heard — a nod to the universal hum. But Schnyer had also composed a soothing, nine-minute piece of music written in Logic Pro, Apple’s digital audio workstation, that could only be heard by guests wearing special sets of headphones affixed with sensors. The music was split into different tracks that were assigned to the four sets of headphones as well as other sensors attached to space-themed objects around the room. The motion-capturing cameras were attached to the ceiling.

As visitors moved about the room, different musical tracks would adjust the volume and panning in their headphones according to who and what they were close to.

“ The motion-tracking technology designated each person that entered the space as a new instrument, with musical lines mimicking their movement and stillness as they explored the exhibit,” Schnyer said.

The project was a hit. Some 60 people (mainly students) signed up for one of the 15-minute slots to try out the headphones.

Schnyer was especially pleased at the end of the night when some friends who were laying on the floor in the studio told her how relaxing the music was and how much they wanted to hear it again.

“ I assumed the biggest draw of my project would be the technological and movement aspects of it,” she said. “I was pleasantly surprised that the piece I had composed for the space was received well and contributed to, rather than distracted from, the meditative atmosphere I was aiming for.”

Schnyer, who is from Torrington, Connecticut, isn’t sure what’s next in her upcoming gap year, aside from her first trip to the Philippines, her mother’s native country. But she’s already thinking about other projects combining music and art with technology.

“ It was so special to have had an opportunity to exercise full creative control over my own space in an installation,” she said, “and to be able to share it.”

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April 22, 2024 - Protests at Columbia and other schools escalate

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Democratic House members tour Columbia campus

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Democratic Reps. Jared Moskowitz of Florida, Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, Dan Goldman of New York and Kathy Manning of North Carolina, who are all Jewish, spoke at a news conference Monday after touring Columbia University’s campus. 

"We saw it firsthand as we walked past the encampments on the university's main lawn full of protesters spewing incendiary antisemitic hate and vitriol. Many aren't even Columbia students I've been told. Their campaign of intimidation is sickening and shocking and as the White House said yesterday, ‘echoes the rhetoric of Hamas terrorists,'" Gottheimer said. 

He also criticized Columbia University leadership, saying, “toothless combinations from administrators aren't going to stop the anarchy we’re seeing.”

“The only way to do it is with deeds, not words,” Gottheimer said. “Colleges have a legal obligation under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to provide students, including Jews and Muslims, a school environment free from discrimination and harassment based on race color or national origin. Yet just feet from here, Jewish students are being verbally and even physically assaulted.”

Gottheimer continued, “To the administrators of Columbia and beyond, here are our demands: Stop the double talk and start acting now. Discipline harassers, restore civility on this campus, encourage peaceful constructive dialogue.”

He also gave a message for students: “While the leadership of Columbia may be failing you, we will not. We will do everything in our power to keep you safe and do everything in Washington we can to make sure that you feel welcome at this university or any university across the United States of America. And Columbia University, if they don't follow through, will pay the price.”

Goldman said he was "encouraged" the Columbia University president issued guidelines about additional security, calling it a "very important first step" and criticized what is happening on campus.

"That is unacceptable for a university, that is unacceptable for an academic institution. There is no question that everyone has a First Amendment right to speak out in this country and that must be preserved," Goldman said. "But a university and all universities have an obligation to maintain the safety and security of their students from all backgrounds."

Manning said university leadership should "do more to keep Jewish students safe and to re-establish an atmosphere in which all students can learn, study and participate safely in campus life."

"Columbia must also move forward with its promised efforts to teach its students and its faculty about the nature and history and dangers of antisemitism. It must ensure that Columbia professors are not encouraging and spreading antisemitism," Manning said.

"I call on the US Department of Education and the US Department of Justice to work with the White House to ensure that all universities take steps necessary to keep Jewish students and faculty safe. I also call on Congress to enact legislation to implement the steps outlined in the US national strategy to counter antisemitism, to address the scourge of antisemitism which is a threat to the foundations of our democracy," she said.

President Joe Biden condemns antisemitism on campus

From CNN's Kevin Liptak

President Joe Biden decried antisemitic protests around college campuses Monday and said his administration was working to combat anti-Jewish hatred.

"I condemn the antisemitic protests, that’s why I’ve set up a program to deal with that," Biden said when questioned about the events at Columbia University in New York.

"I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians," he said, without expanding upon what he meant.

Biden was speaking after an Earth Day event in Prince William Forest Park in Triangle, Virginia.

When asked whether Columbia's president should resign, Biden appeared to mishear: "I didn’t know that. I'll have to find out more," he said.

Protesters gather outside NYU's Stern School of Business

From CNN's Elisabeth Buchwald

Roughly 200 pro-Palestine protesters have gathered outside New York University's Stern School of Business, with some pro-Israel protesters waving Israeli flags across the street. 

More than a dozen NYPD officers, as well as campus security, were at the site. Campus security have been seen asking for student identification to get onto the school campus from the sidewalk. A nearby encampment included about 10 tents.

Some of the protestors were heard chanting, “Intifada, intifada, globalize the intifada.”

Protesters were also reciting lines and singing songs from the Haggadah, the Jewish book used during Seder. A person who identified themselves as a Jewish student at NYU was leading some of the songs. 

"This morning, some 50 protesters began a demonstration on the plaza in front of the business school," NYU spokesperson John Beckman said in a statement. "This occurred without notice to the University. There are some additional picketers on the public sidewalk in front of the plaza."

Beckman added that access to the plaza has been closed and classes are carrying on.

"The University is committed to minimizing disruption to its academic mission; preventing escalation and violence; and precluding hate, harassment, or threats directed at any member of the NYU community," he said. 

"We are addressing this issue with urgency."

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The Jewish Theological Seminary chancellor on its partnership with Columbia

From CNN's Samantha Delouya

In a statement, the chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary, Shuly Rubin Schwartz, said she was "shocked and horrified" by the unfolding protests at Columbia University.

JTS, which is just blocks away from Columbia, has partnered with the university for more than half a century to offer a joint degree program through Columbia's List College, which combines a religious and liberal arts education.

"Ensuring the safety and well-being of the JTS community is always our top priority," said Schwartz, who said JTS has been in close communication with Columbia's public safety team, the NYPD, other Jewish organizations on campus and the university's administration.

Schwartz said the unrest on campus is rooted in a broader issue: "The breakdown of constructive discourse and the inability to understand and respect differing viewpoints."

"The morphing of what might be legitimate debate into the worst and most aggressive forms of antisemitic expression is horrifying for us as Jews and as Americans," she said. "It must be unequivocally condemned, and it is particularly antithetical to everything that our universities teach and foster."

Schwartz said she has had meetings with Columbia President Minouche Shafik over the past several months and the two have built "a relationship of trust, honesty, and open dialogue."

Rep. Jared Moskowitz: "This level of hatred would never be allowed on any college campus"

Florida Rep. Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat, was one of several lawmakers who walked across Columbia University on Monday to stand in solidarity with Jewish students. 

“I should be with my family today for Passover. Instead, I’m here at Columbia University standing with Jewish students who are being harassed because of their Judaism,” Moskowitz, who is Jewish, said in a statement. 

“On the eve of Passover, I stand with the Jewish students and their families against the antisemitism displayed on campuses around the country. Every Jewish parent knows that, if this was any other minority group, this level of hatred would never be allowed on any college campus. If the President of Columbia wants to know what not to do, she should call the former Presidents of Harvard and UPenn."

US House Committee on Education & the Workforce to Columbia: "The time for talking is over."

From CNN's Robert Ilich

The US House Committee on Education & the Workforce, chaired by Republican North Carolina congresswoman Virginia Foxx, on Monday called on Columbia President Minouche Shafik to take immediate action to the protests in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

The Republican-led committee, which includes Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, called on Shafik to "order law enforcement to clear out the unlawful encampment of antisemitic protestors, as well as "expel the students involved," and "terminate the Columbia faculty involved."

The committee added: "The time for talking is over."

In a letter to Shafik , as well as Claire Shipman and David Greenwald, the co-chairs of the school's Board of Trustees, the committee wrote they were "gravely concerned by the ongoing chaos at Columbia University caused by the radical, unlawful Gaza Solidarity Encampment, which has now entered its fifth day. The encampment and related activities have created a severe and hostile environment for Jewish students at Columbia."

NY Governor: "Every student deserves to be safe"

From CNN's Robert Ilich, Taylor Romine

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul posted a video Monday from the Columbia campus in New York City, where she addressed safety concerns.

"This morning I went to Columbia University and convened City Hall, NYPD & Columbia’s President to discuss the need to fight antisemitism and protect public safety," Hochul posted on X , formerly known as Twitter. "The recent harassment and rhetoric is vile and abhorrent. Every student deserves to be safe."

Hochul said her "No. 1 responsibility (as governor) is to keep people safe and that's why we came up here today."

She said in her conversations she emphasized the need to protect public safety and provide security, but also protect people's right to peacefully assemble and have freedom of speech.  

“I was once a student protestor,” Hochul said. “But I’ve never seen a level of protest that is so person to person, and so visceral. And I’m calling on everyone – people need to find their humanity. Have the conversations, talk to each other, understand different points of view because that’s what college students should be doing.” 

Columbia reposted her post, and thanked the governor, “the First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, the NYPD, and the many government leaders who have reached out to offer their support.” 

Yale says "peaceful protest taking place"

From CNN's Raja Razek, Robert Ilich

A Yale University spokesperson confirmed to CNN on Monday that protests on the school's campus in New Haven, Connecticut, have been "peaceful." Yale said the school had given protestors multiple attempts to speak with university officials.

The school issued the following comments in a statement:

"Today, members of Yale’s police department isolated the (protest) area and asked protestors to show identification; some left voluntarily. When others did not comply after multiple requests, the Yale Police Department (YPD) issued summonses to 47 students, according to the most recent report from the chief of YPD. Students who were arrested also will be referred for Yale disciplinary action, which includes a range of sanctions, such as reprimand, probation, or suspension.

"The university made the decision to arrest those individuals who would not leave (Beinecke) Plaza with the safety and security of the entire Yale community in mind and to allow access to university facilities by all members of our community.

"Yesterday, President Peter Salovey sent a  message to the community , noting that the university would not tolerate behavior that interfered with university operations or threatened, harassed, or intimidated others."

Hedge fund billionaire backs Columbia’s president, blasts students protesting Israel as "f***ing crazy"

From CNN's Matt Egan

Hedge fund billionaire Leon Cooperman, a prominent Columbia University donor, is offering support for the Ivy League school’s embattled president even as he continues to blast students protesting against Israel.

“My view is that finally they are doing the right thing at the school …The administration is now responding properly,” Cooperman told CNN in a phone interview Monday. “The president is now saying the right things.”

Cooperman, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, doubled down on his recent criticism of student protestors.

“These kids are f***ing crazy. They don’t understand what they’re doing or what they’re talking about,” he told CNN.

In October, Cooperman  threatened to halt donations  to Columbia, a threat that he says prompted Columbia President Minouche Shafik to reach out to him.

During a phone call with Shafik, Cooperman said he told her: “Can you imagine anyone criticizing the United States after Pearl Harbor?”

Cooperman said he has decided to continue to donate money to Columbia University if the funds only go to supporting Columbia Business School, which he graduated from.

“She is doing what she has to do,” Cooperman said of Shafik.

However, Cooperman said the “kids” protesting against Israel at Columbia “are out of control” and “have to be controlled.”

Referring to people who are antisemitic, Cooperman said: “F*** them all.”

A group called the Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine posted a  statement  on social media on Monday saying the movement has been “peaceful” and expressing frustration with “media distractions focusing on inflammatory individuals who do not represent us.”

“We firmly reject any form of hate or bigotry,” the statement said.

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