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Eric Adams Seizes Role as Face of the Crackdown on Student Protests
Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday defended the overnight arrests of nearly 300 campus protesters in New York City, praising the police for using restraint and arguing that protesters were antisemitic and led by outsiders who were part of a global effort ...
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Hamilton Hall Has a Long History of Student Takeovers
Hamilton Hall, the building at Columbia University that protesters occupied early Tuesday morning, has been occupied several times by student activists over the past half-century. Here are some of the notable moments of student protest at the ...
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A Small Campus in the Redwoods Has the Nation’s Most Entrenched Protest
Pro-Palestinian protesters have occupied the administration building at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt for the past week and forced a campus closure until May 10.
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N.Y.U. Says It Will Discipline Students Who Remain in Encampment
The university had set a noon deadline for an end to overnight stays at the site, but students remained there on Monday afternoon.
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Colleges Have Gone Off the Deep End. There Is a Way Out.
I had my head in a law book when I heard the drums. That was the sound of the first campus protest I’d ever experienced. I’d come to Harvard Law School in the fall of 1991 as a graduate of a small, very conservative Christian college in Nashville ...
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‘Decisions Under Fire’: Campuses Try a Mix of Tactics as Protests Grow
Some colleges that initiated police crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests have since taken a different tack. Others have defended the move. Hundreds have been arrested.
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The Student-Led Protests Aren’t Perfect. That Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Right.
On Wednesday morning, on a corner across the street from Columbia University, a man dressed in black, a huge gold cross around his neck, brandished a sign that featured a bloodstained Israeli flag and the word “genocide” in capital letters. He was ...
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Why Gaza Protests on U.S. College Campuses Have Become So Contagious
Experts say the partisan political context in Washington is a driver behind the spread of protests at American universities even as overseas campuses have stayed relatively calm.
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Emory in Atlanta Is Latest University to Crack Down on Protests
More than 400 demonstrators across the country have been taken into police custody since arrests at Columbia University in New York set off a wave of student activism nationwide.
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Campus Protests Over Gaza Intensify Amid Pushback by Universities and Police
There were nearly two dozen new arrests, mostly in Texas, as universities moved to prevent pro-Palestinian encampments from taking hold as they have at Columbia University.