How a Times Reporter Covered the 1996 Columbia Student Protests

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• Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT times insider HOW I REPORTED ON THE COLUMBIA STUDENT PROTESTS … IN 1996 Nearly three decades ago, a young reporter slept on the floor of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall for several nights to file an article for The Village Voice.
• The reporter’s notebook that Edmund Lee used to record the events of a protest at Columbia University in 1996
• The students were occupying the building for a second day, and I was the only reporter in the room.
• The scene might sound like one from the recent turmoil at Columbia but is actually a night from April 1996, when a coalition of Black, Asian and Latino students waged a monthslong campaign to demand an ethnic studies department.

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