In recent days,
Many well-known universities in the United States are really messed up!
A large number of students set up tents on campus to demonstrate,
Causing in-person classes to stop, school closures,
Nearly 200 people have been arrested......
Source: CNN
Today (Tuesday), the pro-Palestinian protests continue to be in full swing at major U.S. universities, prompting universities across the country to take extraordinary measures to deal with the growing crisis.
The tense demonstrations are now on their seventh day and have spread to other schools, with Columbia University announcing that its main campus will be switched to online classes in the final weeks of the semester.
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Columbia University President Minouche Shafik has come under fire from faculty, staff and students last week for calling on the NYPD to clean up demonstration camps on campus. Now, protests, counter-protests, actions by university officials, etc., have highlighted the riots that have swept American universities, causing many students to fear for their safety.
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A NYPD official told CNN that 130 people were arrested during a protest at New York University on Monday night. NYU said it sought help from the NYPD after "intimidation slogans" emerged during the protests, which led to a free-release confrontation between police and protesters.
Source: CNN
But NYPD officials said the demonstrations were generally not violent, except for some bottles thrown at the police.
Source: NPR
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Meanwhile, at least 45 people at Yale University were arrested on Monday for refusing to leave campus protests and charged with trespassing.
Faced with such a "dangerous and precarious" situation, officials at Cal Poly decided to close the campus by Wednesday and move classes online to ensure the safety of the campus community. The protesters there allegedly cordoned themselves inside a building on the campus.
Officials at Columbia and other universities are also under intense pressure from all sides.
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Some supporters of the protests, including even teachers, have condemned the crackdown on protests and free speech, while some students, parents, and lawmakers have pleaded with administrators to take new steps to restore order on campus. Virginia Foxx, chair of the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, warned university officials that if the protests were not contained, the consequences would be dire.
U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona posted on Twitter on Tuesday that he was deeply concerned about the protests at Columbia. "While we are unable to comment on the pending survey, every student deserves to feel safe and belonging in school. ”
A large number of students are "camping" on campus!
Today, Columbia University's West Lawn has become the epicenter of the university's protests, as it has been occupied by a camp with dozens of tents providing shelter for some of the students involved in the protests.
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On Monday, dozens of tents lined up the student camp, and tables were piled high with clothes, food, and hygiene items.
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The day's activities included information sessions, poetry readings, and film screenings. Some students are quietly writing their homework, while others are drawing posters.
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Elsewhere on campus, students are eating, studying, and some are walking around campus in their graduation gowns, as if taking graduation photos.
Several students were arrested during the protests at Yale University and New York University
As the demonstrations at Columbia continued, smaller protests were seen at several other universities in the United States, some of which also had their own camps.
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Yale said dozens of students arrested at the school on Monday morning "will be handed over to the university for disciplinary action, which includes a range of sanctions, such as reprimands, suspensions, and more." ”
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Meanwhile, the arrests at NYU took place during a demonstration outside the business school near Washington Square Park.
John Beckman, a spokesman for New York University, said in a statement that about 50 people began an initial protest Monday morning.
Source: NBC News
"The school closed access to the square, erected barriers, and made it clear that we would not allow more protesters to join as the protests have severely disrupted classes and operations in schools around the square. ”
The university also said more protesters unaffiliated with NYU broke through barriers and joined the demonstrations on Monday afternoon, where the university witnessed "disorderly, destructive and confrontational behavior." ”
In a letter to the NYPD, NYU said the demonstrators had repeatedly refused to leave, and the university had asked the police to remove the protesters, whom the university considered to be trespassers.