University of Chicago’s Pro-Palestinian Encampments Test Commitment to Free Speech
The University of Chicago has built a brand around the idea that its students should be unafraid to encounter ideas or opinions they disagree with. To drum that in, the school provides incoming students with copies of its 2015 free-speech declaration, known as the Chicago statement, which states that freedom of expression is an “essential element” More...
What the First Amendment Means for Campus Protests
Follow our live coverage of the college protests at U.C.L.A. and other universities. Protesters on college campuses have often cited the First Amendment as shelter for their tactics, whether they were simply More...
Kent State Protesters Call For University to Divest, Echoing Vietnam War Protests
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered at Kent State University in Ohio on Saturday to protest the war in Gaza, exactly 54 years after a similar campus demonstration ended in four student deaths. The More...
A FAFSA Fiasco Has Students Still Asking: Which College Can They Afford?
By this time of year, college-bound high school seniors are usually celebrating their choices, researching dorms and even thinking of their majors. This year, that’s not necessarily the case. Because of a More...
From Free Speech to Free Palestine: Six Decades of Student Protest
An American college student looked out at a sea of protesters and spoke of a machine that had grown so “odious” that it had left people of good will little choice. There must be protest. “You’ve got More...
University Graduation Season Gets Underway Amid Ongoing Protests
Pro-Palestinian protesters briefly interrupted a graduation ceremony at the University of Michigan on Saturday, as universities holding commencements braced for more tensions generated over the war in Gaza. More...
Attack on UCLA Encampment Stirs Fears of Clashes Elsewhere
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 More...
Dartmouth Professor’s Arrest During Protests Stirs Anger and Debate
The video is jarring: A gray-haired woman tumbles, gets up to reach for her phone, held by police officers, and is yanked and taken to the ground. “Are you kidding me?” a bystander asks. “What are they More...
Campus Protests Over Gaza Open a New Line of Attack for GOP in 2024 Election
Protests and arrests on college campuses exploded into the forefront of the presidential race this week, opening up a new line of attack for Republicans and forcing President Biden to directly address an issue More...
N.Y.P.D. Says Officer Accidentally Fired Gun Inside Columbia Building
An officer whose gun went off inside a Columbia University building this week fired it accidentally as the police were removing pro-Palestinian protesters from the campus, the New York Police Department said More...
