Arrested. Injured. Suspended. Six NYC university students say they'll keep protesting

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At Columbia University, word was spreading among the student protesters who'd defied the university's order to take down their pro-Palestinian encampment on a central lawn. Police were gathering outside the school's locked gates. Arrests seemed imminent. It was the evening of April 30.

Allie Wong, a doctoral student, was off campus when she heard what was happening. She rushed there and found a way to sneak in.

Before the night was over, Wong would be one among nearly 300 protesters arrested at two New York City colleges. NPR spoke with six of them about their choice to risk arrest, discipline from their universities, and possibly their academic and professional futures.