As pro-Palestinian protests cause clashes at colleges across the nation, Penn and other local schools have become host to their own encampments and rallies. Plus, solving a murder, 17 years later.
People join hands in a circle as tents are erected on Penn’s campus as part of a pro-Palestinian protest on Thursday.
Friday, welcome. You might feel some lingering frost this morning, but later on, the day will be sunny with high temps around 63.Earlier this week at schools such as Columbia, Yale, and NYU, administrators brought law enforcement to campus to break up pro-Palestinian demonstrations and encampments. USC just canceled its main graduation event amid ongoing protests, too.At Swarthmore College, student protesters erected about 20 tents in a peaceful protest Tuesday night into Wednesday.
By Thursday evening, students had set up about 10 tents on the campus’ College Green. The Inquirer’s Alfred Lubrano and Susan SnyderIn 1989, a white man from Wilmington claimed that he had murdered a Black man in Philadelphia to earn a “badge of honor” from racist skinheads. “You have these two sides: the victim’s family and law enforcement. And they’re each grasping in the dark to put together the pieces,” said Jake Halpern, the journalist behind a new podcast on the case. “Eventually their storylines collide some 17 years after the fact.”Almost 130,000 Pennsylvania Democrats thumbed their nose at President Joe Biden by either casting a write-in vote or picking another candidate in this week’s primary.
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