A growing number of colleges and universities are negotiating deals with students to try to defuse tensions peacefully and avert further violence.
By Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Laura Meckler, Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff and Justin Jouvenal, The Washington PostMaintenance workers clean up the plaza, where the pro-Palestinian protesters occupied, outside New York University, Friday, May 3, 2024, in New York.
Noam Emerson-Fleming, a 20-year-old sophomore at American University who has closely monitored events across the country, said he felt the action reached a crescendo when New York police forcefully removed protesters from Hamilton Hall at Columbia University, the epicenter of the protest movement, late Tuesday night. But he sees a possible end in sight, something protesters say is not in the offing.
Pro-Palestinians protesters clash with counter-protesters at the encampment in the quad at the University of Chicago on the South Side, Friday, May 3, 2024. On the other side of the political aisle, Republicans are working overtime to associate them with the turbulence at colleges.New York City police arrested several dozen more demonstrators Friday morning, according to department spokeswoman Floretta Chow.
On the West Coast, police had arrested at least 30 people at Oregon’s Portland State University as they cleared a library — first on Thursday morning and again in the late evening after protesters, who had occupied the building for several days,Pro-Palestinian protesters occupied Portland State University's library, advocating for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war, on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Portland, Ore.
The Daily Targum, a student-run newspaper, reported that the Rutgers community “received three emails from Rutgers officials,” including one from New Brunswick Chancellor Francine Conway saying there would be “anticipated escalation” if protesters didn’t leave the Voorhees quad. The campus in New Brunswick has seen pro-Palestinian protests for decades.
The agreement followed other resolutions at a small group of schools that, like Northwestern University, agreed to discuss divesting from Israel or from military weapons companies with products being used in the war. Brown University agreed to consider a divestment vote, becoming one of the first of schools looking to end protests without arrests or potentially violent confrontations.
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