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on Tuesday morning, hours after the institution began suspending students who defied orders to dismantle their 80-tent protest encampment. On Monday Minouche Shafik, Columbia’s president, said negotiations to clear the site had failed and rejected protesters’ demand that the university divest from Israel.
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