Pro-Palestinian protesters gather near an area where people were being taken into custody near the Columbia University campus in New York on Tuesday after a campus encampment and a campus building, taken over by protesters earlier in the day, were cleared by New York City police.on Tuesday, officials anxiously monitored whether the fallout would spark more protests on college campuses around the country or quell what has been a growing movement.
Protesters at Columbia dug in, taking over an academic building that has a history of being occupied by student protestersto the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. The escalation came after the passing of a Monday deadline issued by the university's administration for protesters to leave an encampment.before Congress. Shafik is heavily criticized by Republicans who accuse her of not doing enough to combat concerns about antisemitism on Columbia's campus.
The arrests, which New York Mayor Eric Adams says were requested by Columbia officials, garner national attention and inflame college protests nationwide. A day later, the University of Southern California announces that it has canceled the keynote commencement speech by filmmaker Jon M. Chu. USC had alreadyIn the coming days, pro-Palestinian encampments will be set up at the University of Michigan, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of North Carolina..
Meanwhile, schools across the country where protests have taken root prepare to shut down encampments over reports of antisemitic activity and concerns the protests willwho defy a 2 p.m. deadline to leave the encampment of more than 100 tents. Instead of vacating, hundreds of protesters remain, marching around the quad and weaving around piles of temporary flooring and green carpeting meant for graduation ceremonies that are scheduled to begin next week.
Around the country, the number of arrests at campuses nationwide approaches 1,000 as the final days of class wrap up.on Columbia's campus, barricading entrances and hanging a"Free Palestine" banner from a window as administrators warn that they face expulsion for doing so. Protesters insist they will remain at the hall until the university agrees to three demands: divestment from Israel and companies supporting the war in Gaza, financial transparency and amnesty for protesters.
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