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Apr 25 2024
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108 protesters arrested overnight at Emerson College
The 108 protesters arrested overnight at Emerson College in Boston were set to be arraigned on a “series of charges,” including disturbing the peace and unlawful assembly, a Boston police spokesman told MassLive Thursday morning. Boston police began taking the pro-Palestinian protesters into custody around 1:45 a.m. Thursday at an encampment established by the student organization Students for
MassLive.comApr 28 2024
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Protests continue on Columbia University campus in support of Palestinians
Colorado Springs GazetteMay 01 2024
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Our Elite Universities Need More Than Free Speech
The cure for bad speech on campus isn’t more speech — more speech is just the mob. The cure for bad speech on campus is wisdom.
America’s top universities have, over the past several decades, consolidated and nationalized the role they had carved out for themselves in New England in the years of the early republic: They are the formatory institutions of the political class of this
National Review (News)Apr 21 2024
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Biden denounces antisemitism on college campuses amid Columbia protests
President Biden condemned antisemitism on college campuses in a statement on Sunday, three days after more than 100 people protesting the Gaza war on Columbia University’s campus were arrested. Biden’s statement, which came as part of a lengthy Passover greeting he issued from the White House, didn’t name Columbia directly but said there had been “harassment and calls for violence against Jews
Washington PostApr 23 2024
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Columbia University moves to hybrid classes for rest of semester: ‘It’s terrible’
Columbia University has announced that classes at its main campus will be held remotely for the final weeks of the semester — prompting backlash against the “weak” administration for allowing anti-Israel student protesters to “in essence” shut down the college. “It’s vital that teaching and learning continue during this time. We recognize conditions vary across our campuses and thus are
New York Post (News)Apr 26 2024
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As colleges continue to struggle with balance of free speech and safety, Jewish students raise concerns
For days, students have gathered in large numbers on college campuses, but where is the line when it comes to freedom of speech and safety? It's a familiar scene, and one that we've seen on college campuses dating back to Vietnam. University leadership debates an old question: Where is the line when it comes to the balancing act of freedom of speech and safety in a place that is supposed to be
KARE11Apr 27 2024
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To spur a rural rebound, one Minnesota county is paying college athletes to promote it
Max Brosmer is used to spending his Saturdays starring on turf, not ice. So the starting quarterback for the University of Minnesota was recently a bit out of his element on a frozen lake three hours from the Twin Cities. Yet it was no accident that the Big Ten athlete ended up fishing on the ice here in February. He was paid to go. It’s part of an all-out charm offensive by Otter Tail County
"USA Today" ContributorApr 30 2024
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Columbia University protesters occupy a campus building, echoing 1968
Protesters began occupying a central campus building at Columbia University in New York early Tuesday morning, one day after the school asked them to voluntarily disperse from an encampment set up in support of Palestinians.
Once inside, students chained and barricaded the doors. A crowd cheered as the facade was draped with signs reading "Intifada" and "Hind's Hall" — the latter a
NPR (Online News)Apr 21 2024
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Fewer Oregon graduates are going to college. These seniors face big decisions
Eight weeks before his high school graduation, Parkrose High senior Ginofa Shirai is still not sure what’s next. College sounds good, probably Portland State, though he considered Eastern Washington University near Spokane, where he has cousins. But whether he’ll make it there, the first of his mother’s four sons to go to college, is an open question. Oregon’s college-going rates have dipped
The OregonianApr 26 2024
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How D.C.-area college students launched their own Gaza protest encampment
With that, the encampment began. For more than 24 hours, students and activists refused to leave the lawn of George Washington University’s downtown campus — calling for schools to cut ties with Israel and to protect the free speech of pro-Palestinian student organizers. Some advocated the end of the state of Israel. Students held up bullhorns and chanted slogans like: “Free, free Palestine!”
Washington Post