One example, from just up the Ivy-garlanded I-95, at Brown University, was announced just hours before Shafik again called in the police. Brown’s governing body agreed to vote on a proposal that would divest the school’s endowment of companies affiliated with Israel in a meeting in October. The proposal is based on a 2020 Advisory Committee on Corporation Responsibility in Investment Practices that identified and recommended divestment from “companies that facilitate the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory,” per the Brown Daily Herald.
In exchange, the university’s nonviolent student protesters agreed to vacate their encampment by 5 p.m. that afternoon.
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Another plausible outcome from California: When a similar encampment went up a few days ago at the University of California, Irvine, it seemed likely that police might sweep the protesters away. Orange County sheriff’s deputies began to appear in riot gear near the protest.
But, rather than traffic in vague allegations of misconduct before hiding behind a belligerent mayor and an aggressive police force, like Shafik, the UC–Irvine administration took a much different tack. “UC Irvine respects the rights of any students to engage in free speech and expression including lawful protest,” the school said in a prepared statement. This, remember, is at a public school, where keeping public police forces away is more challenging than a private enclave like Columbia.
And in fact, Irvine’s mayor did get involved in the action. Not long after that, Mayor Farrah N. Khan issued a resounding statement declaring that she would not tolerate any violation of students’ free speech or right to assembly. “I am asking our law enforcement to stand down. I will not tolerate any violations to our students’ rights to peacefully assemble and protest.” She asked the deputies to leave, and they did.
This article is misleading and obviously written by an imbecile. The biggest problem Columbia had is that it IS open to the public.
I’ve never seen a campus that was “closed to the public”. The article probably means the UCs are on state-owned, not private, land. But I’m not sure that’s true or makes any difference.
The gates close at certain times and specific occasions. The article is clearly meant to be deceptive how it is written.
Don’t feed the trolls y’all
Block them and ignore them like the rest of the world does. They do this for attention, so remove it.
Something tells me you don’t know what that means.
Awh, poor troll feels offended for being called out.
What would make you think that? What makes you think? Hamster on a wheel?
Ironic.
I’m just smart enough to spot bullshit when I see it, unlike you.
I know you are but what am I. Lol
Exactly how a child would respond.
That’s the point. It’s no fun when you make fun of yourself 😕
I can’t believe you gave up the high ground and engaged with the fascist troll. Congrats on being stupid.
What high ground, bro? This isn’t a battle of life and death. Cry some more.
No.
And yet, yes.