Columbia University, the epicenter of a last spring's campus movement against Israel's war in Gaza, is bracing for the return of protests this semester.
FILE - Student protesters gather inside their encampment on the Columbia University campus, on April 29, 2024, in New York. – As Columbia University resumes classes Tuesday, students and faculty are planning, and bracing, for a resumption of the pro-Palestinian protests that convulsed the Manhattan campus at the tail end of the spring semester and touched off
Demonstrations against the war have already started bubbling up on college campuses this semester, including one at the University of MichiganThe university’s tall iron gates, long open to the public, are now guarded, requiring students to present identification to enter campus. Inside, private security guards stand on the edge of the grassy lawns that students had seized for their encampment. A new plaque on a nearby fence notes that “camping” is prohibited.
Others have accused the university of treating the student protesters too leniently, arguing that a lack of clear guidelines would result in further turmoil this semester.
The revised protest regulations require organizers to inform the university of any scheduled protests, barring demonstrations that “substantially inhibit the primary purposes of a given university space.”
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