Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered for a picket outside Barnard’s main gates on Thursday at around 12:45 p.m. The protest—led by Columbia University Apartheid Divest—called for Barnard to reinstate two students reportedly expelled for their disruption of the class History of Modern Israel on Jan. 21, a Monday Instagram post from CUAD read.

The New York Police Department broadcasted a message threatening arrests if protesters did not disperse.

The picket comes after dozens of protesters staged a sit-in outside Barnard Dean Leslie Grinage’s office in Milbank Hall on Wednesday, demanding an “immediate reversal” of the student expulsions. Protesters left Milbank at around 10:30 p.m. with a tentative agreement that three student representatives would meet Grinage and Barnard President Laura Rosenbury on Thursday at 1 p.m.

CUAD dispersed flyers to protesters at the picket outlining their demands for Grinage and Rosenbury. In addition to expulsion reversals, the flyer called for “amnesty for all students disciplined for pro-Palestine action” and “a public meeting” between students, Grinage, and Rosenbury. The flyer also called for the “abolition of the corrupt Barnard disciplinary process and complete transparency for current, past, and future disciplinary procedures.”

A group of individuals met with two faculty members outside of Milstein around 1 p.m. They were later joined by another individual. The faculty members had liaised between protesters and Barnard administrators at the sit-in on Wednesday. At various points, faculty liaisons were seen on the phone discussing among themselves. Student representatives would occasionally have private meetings.

At around 1:26 p.m., two of the student negotiators went to Barnard gates and delivered updates on protesters’ negotiations with administration.

“Rosenbury is on the phone now with one of the faculty members,” the negotiator told the protesters. “Make sure she can hear us loud.”

A counterprotest announced by Business School assistant professor Shai Davidai and End Jew Hatred—a grassroots movement “centering on Jewish liberation from all forms of oppression and discrimination”—took place next to the picket.

Student negotiators delivered more recent updates on the negotiations with faculty mediators to the protesters at around 2:15 p.m.

“We all agreed that negotiators could wear masks,” the student negotiator said. “The student collective at the sit-in graciously conceded to this closed meeting.”

The student negotiator said that the negotiating team came to the campus today in “good-faith to negotiate.”

The negotiator said that “less than an hour before the meeting,” Grinage renegotiated the terms of the meeting.

The negotiator proceeded to read out what they said was an email sent by a faculty facilitator.

“They remain willing to meet with three Barnard plus Columbia students at 1 today, but on the condition that those three students be unmasked,” the negotiator read out the email.

The email read that the administrator was permitting a professor and another individual to attend the meeting “as faculty observers,” but they are “not permitting the conversations to be recorded.”

“We will be in front of the Milstein Center at 1 in 25 minutes. Let me emphasize again that we are participating today, not as representatives of the administration, but as faculty members who are concerned about the world we live in and the specific Barnard community we work in,” the negotiators continued reading.

The student negotiators told the crowd that Grinage had renegotiated the terms of the meeting and were “negotiating in bad faith.”

“Let us reiterate, we had agreed to a transcript of the meeting, we had agreed to us to be masked,” the negotiator said.

Protesters began chanting, “Free, free Palestine.”

Protesters left Barnard gates at around 2:40 p.m., with plans to go to the City College of New York.

“We will be marching to support our comrades fighting for a free Palestine at CCNY,” a protester announced.

At around 2:55 p.m., NYPD officers detained an individual on 120th Street between Broadway and Claremont Avenue. An NYPD spokesperson could not immediately confirm the detention.

Beginning Thursday at 8 a.m., Barnard’s campus transitioned to campus access Level C, with the 117th Street and Broadway gate the sole main entry point onto Barnard’s campus. According to a Thursday email from Barnard President Laura Rosenbury, the campus would be under Level C restrictions. On Jan. 30, Level C was defined on a Barnard web page as the campus being accessible for students with Barnard IDs, according to an archived version of the website accessed through the Wayback Machine. As of Thursday afternoon, Barnard’s website now states the campus is at Level C, with access for both “BC/CU ID holders.”.

CUAD called for protesters to “not give any interviews to press” to “ensure accuracy and safety.”

When asked to provide comment on the Thursday protest, a Barnard spokesperson referred Spectator to Rosenbury’s Sunday statement to Spectator, where she wrote that under federal law, Barnard “cannot comment on the academic and disciplinary records of students.”

“When rules are broken, when there is no remorse, no reflection, and no willingness to change, we must act,” Rosenbury wrote through a Barnard spokesperson. “Expulsion is always an extraordinary measure, but so too is our commitment to respect, inclusion, and the integrity of the academic experience.”