Writers, professors, and academics boycott Columbia University; Lauren Groff on her Florida bookstore and book bans
As students have taken over Hamilton Hall at Columbia, more than 2500 professors, academics, writers have pledged to boycott Columbia University and Barnard College. In an open letter, the signatories write, “We stand in full solidarity with the brave students, clerical staff, graduate workers, post-doctoral workers, and faculty at Columbia, Barnard, and Teacher’s College resisting genocide, from Gaza, from Palestine, to Morningside Heights.” The campus radio station, WKCR, has continued to cover the situation live despite the administration severely restricting access to the campus today. The