How Boston-area schools are handling campus encampments

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While Columbia University in New York and UCLA in California have garnered the most recent national headlines, several schools in the Boston area are also embroiled in these standoffs. Encampments have popped up in outdoor areas on both sides of the Charles River.

2024 may be the most significant year of college student protests since the civil rights and anti-war demonstrations in the late 1960s. Hundreds of students demanding a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war, and for their respective universities to divest from companies that do business with the Israeli government or military, have camped out on quads, commons and greens to make their voices heard.

Two camps — one at Emerson College and the other at Northeastern University — were raided by police, who arrested more than 100 people at each location. Others remain at Tufts University, Harvard University, and MIT, though administrators at each have said the tents must come down. Northeastern professor emeritus Martin Blatt said he's spent a lot of time at his school's encampment and visited several others in the area. He supports the students holding the protests.

Brown University this week announced it would hold a divestment vote in October, ceding a key demand of protesters on the Providence school's campus. At MIT, administrators on Wednesday said the current goal is to maintain safety for both protesters and others on campus.

 

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