A mix of faculty, students and non-affiliated practitioners in the fields of architecture and design have signed a petition calling for a boycott of Columbia University after its treatment of students protesting the war in Gaza.
The petition was launched under the moniker Architects and Planners Against Apartheid and calls "to boycott all academic events at Columbia University as a whole" and particularly Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) and Barnard Architecture, the liberal arts college that shares the campus.
The petition was launched after the New York City university called in police in response to student protests, which began in mid-April, and have since spread to universities all over the United States.
 

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The architect-specific petition follows a general one signed by thousands of sympathetic academics.
A week after the petition was signed and sent to Columbia, the protests culminated in the NYPD clearing the campus of protest encampments and clearing an academic building that had been "seized" by the protestors, according to the New York Times, leading to dozens of arrests early Wednesday morning.
"Many faculty within the department are extremely supportive of the course and the students with the encampment and initiatives that...