FILE - Pro-Palestinian protesters chant at University of Chicago police while being kept from the university's quad as the student encampment is dismantled Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in Chicago. walked out of the University of Chicago's commencement Saturday as the school withheld the diplomas of four seniors over their involvement with a pro-Palestinian encampment.
Four graduating seniors, including Youssef Haweh, were informed by email in recent days that their degrees would be withheld pending a disciplinary process related to complaints about the encampment, according to student groupMy diploma doesn't matter when there are people in Palestine and in Gaza that will never walk a stage again, who will never receive a diploma. What about them? Who's going to fight for them?" Haweh said in a Saturday statement.
Students have walked out of commencements at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and others as protest camps have sprung up across the U.S. and in Europe in recent weeks. Students have demanded their universities stop doing business with Israel or companies they say support its war in Gaza. Organizers seek to amplify calls to end Israel's war with Hamas, which they describe as a genocide against the Palestinians.
The University of Chicago encampment was cleared May 7. Administrators had initially adopted a permissive approach, but later said the protest had crossed a line and caused growing concerns about safety. One group temporarily took over a building on the school's campus.
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