March 8, 2025 (EIRNS)—The March 5 sit-in at the Milstein Center on the campus of Barnard College was disrupted by a bomb threat which required the evacuation of the area. At the time student activists were suspicious that the bomb threat was a fabrication by the school administration as a tactic to force the evacuation of the area and thus the removal of the student sit-in.
The protesters’ original suspicion that the bomb threat was fabricated by school administrators now seems to be bolstered by a report in the Columbia Spectator that a New York Police Department “spokesperson told Spectator on Thursday [March 6] that the police had responded to an ‘unscheduled demonstration’ at Barnard. ‘I don’t have anything about a bomb threat,’ the spokesperson said.”