Student Spring protests are stirring up US campuses. Here's the latest

Students protest where they camp outside the entrance to Hamilton Hall on the campus of Columbia University, in New York, US, April 30, 2024. / Photo: Reuters

"Students occupying the building face expulsion," Columbia's office of public affairs said in a statement, adding that the protesters were provided"the opportunity to leave peacefully" but instead declined and escalated the situation. "All those arrested received summonses for trespassing and have been barred from campus," Eisgruber said in the statement.The school in Evanston, Illinois, said that it had reached an agreement with students and faculty who represent the majority of protesters on its campus since Thursday.

Northwestern says it will permit peaceful demonstrations that comply with university policies through June 1, which is the end of spring quarter classes. The university says it will allow one aid tent to remain, and all other tents must be removed. Protesters pushed in on officers, creating a mass of shoving bodies before police used pepper spray on the crowd and set off flash-bang devices to clear a path for a van to take those arrested off campus.Encampment organisers met with university president Carol Folt for about 90 minutes on Monday. Folt declined to discuss details of what was discussed but said the purpose of the meeting was to allow her to hear the concerns of protesters.

The Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement that it will continue monitoring the situation and that the protest remained peaceful.The university said it would move law school finals to a different building because of the noise from the protests.Dozens of protesters at Virginia Tech have been reportedly arrested overnight as the student-led Gaza Liberation Encampment grew to occupy a larger area of campus.

About 30 people were detained by campus police on Tuesday morning after the university said encampment protesters refused to leave. At 5:30 am, a university statement said protesters needed to remove tents and other items and leave the area by 6 am or risk arrest.University of Florida VCU said in a statement on Tuesday that 13 people, including six VCU students, were charged with unlawful assembly and trespassing. VCU said officers used pepper spray to disperse the crowd.A small group of students at the downtown Portland, Oregon, school broke into its library late on Monday.

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