An Incomplete Timeline of the Unraveling of Columbia University This Week
(Anna Oakes / Hell Gate)

An Incomplete Timeline of the Unraveling of Columbia University This Week

Things are happening very fast at Columbia right now. Bad things.

It has been less than a week since ICE agents arrested a legal resident charged with no crime in the foyer of his Columbia University housing in front of his pregnant wife and disappeared him to a for-profit prison in rural Louisiana because the Trump administration doesn't like his opposition to genocide, and seven days since the Trump administration slashed $400 million in grants from Columbia University researchers and programs.

That was all pretty much without precedent, and extremely alarming to people who care about principles like freedom of speech and the independence of educational institutions from the ideological control of the government. But as it turns out, that was just the beginning. The last few days have seen an accelerating drumbeat of developments at Columbia.

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