Camps surrounded by police, raids on universities

Demonstrations on college campuses over Israel’s offensive in Gaza continued across the United States and Europe on Tuesday as University of Chicago police cleared an encampment and other protesters picketed the homes of university officials.

According to the university, police on Tuesday searched an encampment that had been set up for at least a week on the University of Chicago’s main plaza. A video of the police operation shows officers in riot gear tearing down posters and dismantling tents.

In a statement, Paul Alivisatos, the university’s president, said there had been no arrests but added that “disciplinary action will be taken if necessary.” He justified the university’s decision to dismantle the camp with increasing security concerns.

Elsewhere, demonstrators took to the streets outside the homes of university officials, while university camps across Europe have increasingly become the scene of police clashes. At the Rhode Island School of Design, protesters still occupied a building they took over on Monday. At MIT on Tuesday, dozens of protesters remained in a camp after it was largely cleared following an ultimatum from the university.

Protesters occupy Rhode Island School of Design buildings

A group of Rhode Island School of Design students and others occupied a school administration building on campus, forcing the university to relocate some of its classes.

A group called RISD Students for Justice in Palestine is leading the occupation of Providence Washington Hall, saying it has renamed the building Fathi Ghaben Place after a Palestinian painter who died earlier this year.

RISD asked students to move “out of respect for the academic experience of their peers,” RISD spokesman Jaime Marland told the Providence Journal, part of the USA TODAY Network. In the meantime, the school is moving classes that were scheduled for Tuesday into the building.

“While we affirm and continue to affirm our students’ rights to freedom of speech, expression and peaceful assembly, we also respect the rights of the many students who choose to participate in their courses,” Marland said via email.

-Jack Perry, Providence Journal

Demonstrators demonstrate in front of the homes of university officials

In the last 24 hours, protesters in New York and Massachusetts staged demonstrations outside the homes of senior university officials.

On Tuesday morning, protesters demonstrated in Manhattan outside the homes of several members of the Columbia University Board of Trustees. Columbia sparked a wave of student protests across the country and abroad last month. On Monday, the university announced it had canceled its main event and would instead focus on smaller graduation ceremonies.

According to the Harvard Crimson, more than 400 people protested in Massachusetts on Monday evening outside the home of Alan M. Garber, the president of Harvard University. The rally was organized in response to the president’s refusal to negotiate with protesters at an encampment at Harvard Yard.

Garber had previously made a public statement demanding that students disband the camp or face possible bans from campus.

Protesters occupy MIT camps again

Pro-Palestinian protesters at MIT, including students, remained in a camp a day after they were given an ultimatum to leave the building or face disciplinary action.

On Monday, University President Sally Kornbluth gave students a 2:30 p.m. deadline to vacate the camp or they would be barred from classes, exams and commencement. Most students left the camp by the deadline, but there was a large demonstration by students and external demonstrators directly in front of the camp, the university said.

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