About 100 students staged a sit-in to demand that university investments be pulled from companies that are “facilitating death and war” in Gaza.
The students also want university officials to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and to denounce the “ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people.”The sit-in comes days after Columbia University students in New York were arrested and charged with trespassing after camping on the school’s lawn during protests
At UTD, a student protest began on campus about 1 p.m. Social media posts showed classmates linking arms and some praying for those in Gaza. Later in the afternoon, many marched into the administrative building.The students sat on both sides of a long hallway that leads to President Richard C. Benson’s office with a UTD police officer standing in front of the door. The students were also emailing and calling administrators to stress their demands.
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