Officials say security is a priority both at campuses that have experienced unrest and those that have not.
Pro-Palestinian students and non-students take over Alumni Park at USC in Los Angeles on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 calling for divestment in Israel over the Israel-Hamas war. As tensions boil at universities across the country amid scattered police confrontations with pro-Palestinian protesters, Southern California colleges are grappling with campus safety issues as graduation ceremonies near in the coming weeks.
A University of Southern California protester is detained by USC Department of Public Safety officers during a pro-Palestinian occupation at the campus’ Alumni Park on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 in Los Angeles. A woman holds a flag of Palestine as people demonstrate in support of Palestine at the University of California, Irvine in Irvine, CA on Thursday, April 25, 2024. Protests have been staged at college campuses across the nation in response to the war between Israel and Palestine.
Police detain protesters near a transport vehicle on Friday, April 5, 2024, at Pomona College in Claremont. An earlier protest was organized by student-led group Pomona Divest from Apartheid. Students occupied an administration building at Pomona College refusing to obey college officials’ demands that they leave during a protest in support of Palestinians. Twenty people were arrested, according to the Claremont Police Department.
“I find ‘safety concerns’ hard to believe because the university has hosted many other contentious speakers and has invested security resources, so they chose not to do that,” said Ananny, 48. “I think voice is very much needed at this time. The big error and failure was inviting the LAPD in riot gear with nonlethal weapons, intimidating students and faculty and, really, the LAPD turned the campus into a zone of military activity.
Mary Osako, vice chancellor for UCLA’s strategic communications, said the university is trying to uphold its “history of peaceful protest” as it works to strike a balance between safety and First Amendment rights of free speech. Abri Magdaleno, a graduating English major at UCI, acknowledged students are concerned “that things are going to be impacted, such as commencement, because of how intense this is.”
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