US EditionCampus protests flare on a smaller scale than last spring, but with higher stakes
- Campus protests erupted as the academic year ended, occurring at multiple colleges nationwide with smaller demonstrations than last spring.
- These protests stemmed from ongoing pro-Palestinian activism, escalating concerns about university policies and federal investigations into colleges' protest management.
- Colleges adopted stricter discipline policies, suspended students, and banned face coverings to prevent tent encampments and enforce order during protests demanding an end to ties with Israel or related companies.
- More than 80 people were arrested during protests, including one at the University of Washington where demonstrators called for law enforcement and immigration agents to be kept off campus and demanded the university cut ties with Boeing, a defense contractor linked to Israel.
- The federal government used frozen grant money as leverage, signaling higher stakes for campuses and international students amid growing fears of deportations for pro-Palestinian activists.
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Williams: By punishing speech, VCU loses its moral compass
Students, in daring to protest U.S. complicity, risk punishment, arrest, or in the case of noncitizens, deportation. Far from being safe havens from authoritarianism, college campuses are functioning as training grounds for it.
News & Record
Winston-Salem JournalCampus protests flare on a smaller scale
WASHINGTON — Campus activism flared as the academic year winds down, with pro-Palestinian demonstrations leading to arrests at several colleges.
Central Maine News
Portland Press HeraldWhy I decided to show up at protests
In the 1960s, there were ample opportunities to join citizen-led protests, but I was a little young for the civil rights struggles and too naïve to realize what was happening in Vietnam. That changed in May 1970. I witnessed somber marchers carrying four coffins down Waterville’s Mayflower Hill, symbolizing the murder of four students at […]
Associated Press News
Campus protests flare on a smaller scale than last spring, but with higher stakes
Campus protests have been smaller and more scattered compared with last year's pro-Palestinian tent encampments, but the stakes are far higher.
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