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As police swarmed Columbia, its student radio station kept broadcasting

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As New York City police assembled around Columbia University on Tuesday evening, student journalist Tanvi Krishnamurthy typed out an all-caps tweet from the college radio station's account: "PLEASE TUNE IN NOW."

Police were in riot gear. Demonstrators were chanting outside. Pro-Palestinian protesters had barricaded themselves in a university building. With the country wondering what would happen inside Columbia's gates — and onlookers and other reporters blocked from the campus — WKCR's student journalists began delivering a live picture of the tumult that couldn't be found anywhere else.

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