Today's Clips (5/3/24)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University demanded the school drop any investments in companies doing business in Israel.

Protestors camping out at UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza on Thursday said they were encouraged by meetings with UC officials.

Cannon School grad played college soccer at UNC and Davidson

IN OTHER NEWS

To get protesters off campus lawns, Brown University and others have agreed to consider ending investments linked to Israel. But how?

The first big pro-Israel counter demonstration was on Sunday in Los Angeles, home to large Israeli and Jewish populations. More are planned in the coming days.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, said the legislation could make it illegal to assert that Jews killed Jesus, punishing Christians for “believing the Gospel.”

Frustrated parents are pushing back against university responses to the Gaza protests.

The protesters wear masks, avoid eye contact, and seem uninterested in engagement or progress.

A website reveals the planning and strategy behind the current college mayhem.

Use of force to break up peaceful protests makes the university into a school for oppression.

Court records detail allegations against three pro-Palestinian demonstrators arrested at UNC.

Who is behind the GoFundMe page that has gone viral? And where will all that money go?

Universities spent years saying that activism is not just welcome but encouraged on their campuses. Students took them at their word.

TRADES

Faculty and free expression groups are sounding alarms about threatened limitations and crackdowns on professors’ speech and student protests. Forces ranging from campus police, to state troopers, to national lawmakers are targeting faculty and student expression—particularly expression supporting Palestinians.

A political-science course at the Johns Hopkins University wrestles with the questions tearing campuses apart.

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