A pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Pennsylvania has expanded, as students wrap up exams and the university finalizes its plans for graduation ceremonies on May 20. A post on social media by an account associated with the Penn encampment said the expansion on Wednesday night was in response to “the administration’s continued bad-faith negotiations”…
Another House panel was scheduled to question the mayor of Washington, D.C., on Wednesday over the city’s handling of a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at George Washington University. But the police moved in overnight to break up the encampment, and that hearing was called off. Chief Pamela Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department said at a…
The Los Angeles Police Department removed a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Southern California early Sunday morning, pushing several dozen people out of the campus gates in the latest crackdown on student protesters there. The encampment had sprouted up nearly two weeks ago in Alumni Park, a central quad on U.S.C.’s campus in Los…
At a rally at the University of California, Los Angeles, last Sunday, Elan Carr, the leader of an Israeli diaspora group, told more than 1,000 demonstrators that Jewish mobilization at universities was beginning. “We will take back our streets. We will take back our campuses from Columbia University to U.C.L.A. and everywhere in between,” Mr.…
With a light blue academic robe tucked under her arm, Professor Marianne Hirsch hurried to get through a security line at a Columbia University entryway on Monday morning. To pass the gates, everyone had to scan IDs, in compliance with an announcement from the university’s administration that only students and faculty would be allowed on…
Joe Faillace looked out the front windows of his sandwich shop this month and barely recognized the neighborhood where he has worked for almost 40 years. There were no tents within view, no emergency sirens, no campfires, no drug users slumped over on his patio or the sidewalk. Instead, he saw customers walking down quiet,…
Why It Matters The Zone has become a flashpoint in a national debate over how to address the growth of street encampments where residents live in deep poverty and some face mental health challenges or fentanyl addiction. “This isn’t a life. It’s an existence,” Shina Sepulveda, who is homeless and lives in the Zone, told…