The turmoil sweeping universities across the United States continued Tuesday.
Many universities have about two weeks of classes left before the semester ends and have been grappling with how to handle the protests, which have spread nationwideprotests creating friction at universities across the United States escalated Tuesday as some colleges encouraged students to attend classes remotely and dozens faced charges after setting up tents on campuses and ignoring official requests to leave.
Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weeklyand all had been released with summonses to appear in court on disorderly conduct charges. University spokesperson John Beckman said NYU was carrying on with classes Tuesday. On the West Coast, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, announced that its campus will be closed through Wednesday after demonstrators occupied a building Monday night. Classes were to be conducted remotely, the school said on its website.
As Donald Trump walked into a Manhattan courtroom Tuesday morning to attend his historic hush money trial, he spoke briefly to reporters and focused on the turmoil at college campuses, blaming President Joe Biden.A day earlier, when asked whether he condemned “the antisemitic protests," Biden said he did.
Robert Kraft, who owns the New England Patriots football team and funded the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life across from Columbia’s campus, said he was suspending donations to the university.
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