Columbia University extends talks with Gaza war protesters, as campus standoffs persist across the country

Columbia University averted another confrontation between students and police early Wednesday, but the situation remained tense with campus officials saying it would continue talks with

Standoffs also persisted at other universities across the country, including California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, where protesters this week used furniture, tents, chains and zip ties to block a building’s entrance and barricade themselves inside. Elsewhere, police officers clashed with protestersAnd new student encampments continued to pop up, including at Brown University in Rhode Island and Harvard University in Massachusetts.

Columbia said it had agreed with protest representatives that only students would remain at the encampment and they would make it welcoming, banning discriminatory or harassing language. At Cal Poly Humboldt, protesters chanted,"We are not afraid of you!” before officers in riot gear pushed into them at the building's entrance, video shows. Student Peyton McKinzie said she was walking on campus Monday when she saw police grab one woman by the hair and another student with their head bandaged for an injury.Three students were arrested, according to a statement from the school, which shut down the campus through Wednesday.

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