Protest
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A Small Campus in the Redwoods Has the Nation’s Most Entrenched Protest
Pro-Palestinian protesters have occupied the administration building at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt for the past week and forced a…
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N.Y.U. Says It Will Discipline Students Who Remain in Encampment
The university had set a noon deadline for an end to overnight stays at the site, but students remained there…
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Opinion
Colleges Have Gone Off the Deep End. There Is a Way Out.
I had my head in a law book when I heard the drums. That was the sound of the first…
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‘Decisions Under Fire’: Campuses Try a Mix of Tactics as Protests Grow
Some colleges that initiated police crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests have since taken a different tack. Others have defended the move.…
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Opinion
The Student-Led Protests Aren’t Perfect. That Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Right.
On Wednesday morning, on a corner across the street from Columbia University, a man dressed in black, a huge gold…
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Why Gaza Protests on U.S. College Campuses Have Become So Contagious
Experts say the partisan political context in Washington is a driver behind the spread of protests at American universities even…
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Emory in Atlanta Is Latest University to Crack Down on Protests
More than 400 demonstrators across the country have been taken into police custody since arrests at Columbia University in New…
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Campus Protests Over Gaza Intensify Amid Pushback by Universities and Police
There were nearly two dozen new arrests, mostly in Texas, as universities moved to prevent pro-Palestinian encampments from taking hold…
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Opinion
The Ghost of the 1968 Antiwar Movement Has Returned
At the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, anti-Vietnam War protesters clashed with police officers — whose brutal role in…
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Opinion
I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
Last Thursday, in the music humanities class I teach at Columbia University, two students were giving an in-class presentation on…