A Columbia official said more than 65 Columbia students were placed on “interim suspension pending further investigation.” A total of 33 people, including from affiliated institutions, were barred from Columbia’s campus. Alumni who joined the demonstration were also barred from campus, the university official said.

Dozens of people multiple were taken into custody by the New York Police Department at Columbia University after a pro-Palestinian protest in an area of the main library on campus Wednesday.

NYPD officers took dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators into custody at Columbia University's Butler Library on Wednesday evening.