Columbia University issues warning amid protests over Israel-Gaza war

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik late Tuesday issued a midnight deadline for talks on dismantling pro-Palestinian protesters’ encampments on the campus grounds, raising the prospect of further turmoil at the Ivy League institution.The university has been in talks with student organizers behind protests of the Israel-Gaza war — part of a wave of demonstrations at colleges across the country that have led to a spate of arrests — to clear an encampment on the West Lawn of Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus.If the discussions are not successful, Shafik warned, Columbia…