Columbia cancels in-person classes and Yale protesters are arrested as Mideast war tensions grow

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Columbia University has canceled in-person classes and police have arrested dozens of students at Yale University as tensions over the war in the Middle East continue to grow on U.S. college campuses.

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The moves at the two Ivy League schools came hours before the Jewish holiday of Passover was set to begin Monday evening.Police officers arrested about 45 protesters at Yale and charged them with misdemeanor trespassing, said Officer Christian Bruckhart, a spokesperson for New Haven Police Department in New Haven, Connecticut. All were being released on promises to appear in court later, he said.

Shafik said the Middle East conflict is terrible and that she understands that many are experiencing deep moral distress.

 

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