Encampment set up at Penn to protest Israel-Hamas war; colleges have taken varied approaches to demonstrators
People studied and ate as they prepared to camp out for the night in support Palestine on College Green at the University of Pennsylvania on Thursday.and about a half-dozen tents were taken down by protesters voluntarily. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges was escorted out of a rally.and Haverford Colleges, as well as Drexel and Temple Universities, have not reported disruptions on their campuses.
At Towne House, a restaurant on Veterans Square in Media, in Delaware Count, he repeatedly asked supporters if they could believe what was happening.As campus unrest over Israel’s treatment of Gaza continued to rage at colleges across the country, hundreds of students and faculty in Philadelphia and Princeton took up the cause, staging encampments on area campuses, walking out of classes, and waging lively protests.
At the University of Pennsylvania, students erected about 10 tents on the College Green late Thursday afternoon, as Penn became the latest local campus with an encampment. The group at Penn described itself in a news release as a coalition of Penn students, staff, and faculty, along with other Philadelphia community members and students, and called the effort its “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
Officials at Columbia and some other schools have been negotiating with student protesters who have rebuffed police and doubled down. Other schools have quickly turned to law enforcement to douse demonstrations before they can take hold.
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