Swarthmore's commencement is being moved due to a pro-Palestinian encampment on Parrish Lawn, where the ceremony was to be held.
The ceremony will be held Sunday at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia,College for the first time since its founding in 1864 will hold commencement off campus, due to a pro-Palestinian encampment on Parrish Lawn where the ceremony was to be held.“We know that some of you will be disappointed by the decision to move the ceremony off campus,” wrote Tomoko Sakomura and Rob Goldberg, acting co-presidents of Swarthmore.
Over 24 hours, 19 demonstrators at Penn taken into custody after attempting to seize a campus building, while a new encampment goes up at Drexel ”As an institution that believes in the rights of education, it is the obligation of institutions like Swarthmore College to recognize and denounce the destruction of universities and educational facilities in Gaza,”she said.“We engaged in good faith negotiations with the students to try to find common ground and to bring the protest to a peaceful conclusion,” said spokesperson Alisa Giardinelli on Monday. “We disagree with their characterization of those negotiations.
“Swarthmore has a longstanding commitment to supporting peaceful protest,” the college leaders said. “As we’ve seen at other institutions, attempts to clear encampments have often led to physical confrontations — including between police officers and protesters — and, in many cases, have not successfully ended the protests.”
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