Barnard student moans about being being kicked out of dorm for anti-Israel protest
By: nypmetro
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A suspended Barnard College student who was arrested during the disruptive anti-Israel protests on Columbia University's campus moaned Friday about waiting "for an entire hour" to get back into her dorm to pack her things after she was cut loose from jail.
Maryam Iqbal was among the handful of Barnard students — including Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's daughter, Isra Hirsi — to be slapped with suspensions from the college on Thursday over their involvement in the tent city encampment on Columbia's Morningside campus.
"Just got out of jail after Columbia called NYPD to mass arrest 100+ students. I have been suspended and evicted from housing by Barnard," Iqbal posted on X in the early hours of Friday.
"It's 2am. I was forced to stand outside the Barnard gates for an entire hour waiting for someone to let me in, while Barnard Public Safety told me they are 'going above and beyond' by even considering allowing me into my own room for 15 minutes. I haphazardly packed and have left," she continued.
4Maryam Iqbal was among those arrested during the disruptive anti-Israel protests on Columbia University's campus Thursday. X/@bluepashminas
"Giving us 15 minutes to pack up and leave from our housing is seriously twisted. I am not surprised at all — I am glad administration is finally showing their face to the general student body, because student organizers have known from the start how evil these administrators are."
Iqbal, who is a member of the anti-Israel student group Apartheid Divest, received notice of her suspension in the hours before the NYPD were called in to help dismantle the large anti-Israel protest encampment.
Administration at Barnard, which charges $64,000 per year for tuition, said students started receiving warnings late Wednesday that they risked being suspended if they didn't leave the encampment.
4The college student moaned Friday about being locked out of her dorm "for an entire hour" after she was cut loose from jail. 4Iqbal, who was cuffed alongside Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's daughter, Isra Hirsi, had her dorm access cut off following her suspension.
The suspensions started being doled out first thing Thursday morning, according to a statement posted on the college's site.
"We started to place identified Barnard students remaining in the encampment on interim suspension, and we will continue to do so," it read.
Iqbal shared a screenshot of an email she received from administrators in the wake of her suspension, notifying her that her ID card had been deactivated and her access to her $20,000-per-year dorm was cut.
"If you need to come to retrieve any of your belongings from your residence hall, please go to CARES. A CARES responder will escort you to your room and you will have 15 minutes to gather what you might need," the email read.
4At least 108 protesters ended up being cuffed and slapped with trespassing summonses during Thursday's NYPD clear out of the Columbia encampment. Robert Miller
It wasn't immediately clear how many Barnard students had been slapped with sanctions so far.
A spokesperson at the Columbia-affiliated college told The Post it "does not provide information about confidential student conduct proceedings."
Meanwhile, at least 108 protesters ended up being cuffed and slapped with trespassing summonses during Thursday's NYPD clear out of the Columbia encampment.
Columbia President Minouche Shafik said Thursday she had "authorized" the NYPD to crack down — despite her hopes that the move would "never be necessary."
"I took this extraordinary step because these are extraordinary circumstances," she said in an email to students and faculty. "The individuals who established the encampment violated a long list of rules and policies."
"We also tried through a number of channels to engage with their concerns and offered to continue discussions if they agreed to disperse," she continued. "I regret that all of these attempts to resolve the situation were rejected by the students involved."
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And here I am fresh out of "Give A Shit".
Play stupid games, win supid prizes.
Sometimes these kids learn some life lessons the hard way.
There are a lot that need to learn that way.
I don't disagree.
High time some college kids learn that bigoted anti Semitism does have consequences, regardless of who their parents are.
Adios, dumbass!
A well earned suspension.
How many times have we heard that just because you have free speech does not mean you will not suffer the consequences of your actions.
From what I read, they were given multiple warnings of consequences. Perhaps the college didn't include the phrase 'we really really mean it' with the last warning...
I fully support peoples right to free speech, assembly and protest, but everyone should all know by know civil disobedience comes with consequences.
Exactly.
The right to "free speech" does not include the right to falsely yell "fire" in a crowded theatre...
Almost correct.
You still have the ability to yell 'fire' in a theater, if you are wrong you will have consequences to deal with after the fact. As it states above, if you think there's a fire you do need to yell. Even if you are wrong.
But there's no right to yell or not yell.
No issues here.
The classes are not hard enough If they have time to act like this.
The search for victimhood continues. This is a stark contrast with Ted Kennedy's concession to Jimmy Carter: For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.
The political left has become so self serving that it only care about itself. And accolades for activists has become the only dream. Social justice for today's political left has become an exploitable commodity and victimhood has become the profitable business model. Notice these victims are no longer considered martyrs?
I guess the mental midgets in the DNC don't like when their idiot children are arrested for taking part in stupid shit.
Morning...
Another entitled under achiever..
Don't forget to shut the door on your way out...
I've got an idea for those two, go to school in Afghanistan. Oh, you mean they don't allow girls higher education there? Ok then, go to school in Iran, but make sure you don't take your hijab off. Ilhan's daughter could get a job as captain of a pirate boat back in her home country, and the other one could be a tour guide in Syria.
I was thinking they should go to Gaza and attend that Hamas-created institute of higher learning!
Oh yes, of course. You mean the UNRWA school of military training.
Universities demonstrate what happens when the successor ideology (or whatever you call wokeism) runs amok.
At Northwestern, the actual Dean of Students joined a protest against Hillel, the international Jewish college student group .
Get your ticket, Hamas would LOVE to have you! Just remmeber that if you say ANYTHING critical of the "administration" you will be detained, and of course raped (par the course), and possibly killed depending on what you said. Also, no more dressing how you like, you will dress as the "administration" says and or be fined/imprisoned(raped)/or executed. And of course give up any hope of being anyrthing other than a baby maker, because you are female and thus that is all you are good for under the Hamas "administration".
These kids are fucking idiots.