"You go by chair after chair after chair, and you understand that there shouldn't be a picture in every chair. That should be a human life, but it isn't anymore,"
"You'll never take away David's life. It lives on in me. It lives on in you. It lives on in every single person that wants to make a better tomorrow,"
"We look at all these faces here, smiling beautiful faces. It just brings back so much more hope into Columbia's future,"
Columbia University’s Butler Lawn was filled with 1,205 empty chairs representing people murdered by Hamas on October 7. Each chair included a photo, a name written in white, a white rose, and a candle. The installation was arranged by Baruch Apisdorf’s organization, Let’s Do Something, and included a chair for Apisdorf’s best friend, David Newman. Butler Lawn previously hosted a 2024 encampment and a May takeover of Butler Library by pro-Palestinian activists that led to arrests. Campus tensions have continued amid ongoing ceasefire negotiations and reported hostage-release claims by the White House.
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