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Sally Kornbluth, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, threatened to suspend students who do not leave the camp.

In a letter to the campus community, Kornbluth wrote that students who do not leave the anti-Israel camp by 2:30 p.m. Monday will be placed on interim academic suspension.

Students who have been subject to previous sanctions or active investigations “in connection with events since October 7” will be placed on an immediate interim full suspension, prohibiting students from accessing their meal plans or residence halls.

However, individuals who “contributed significantly as a leader or organizer of the camp” will be referred to MIT’s Student Conduct Office, even if they leave the camp voluntarily.

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Kornbluth said the anti-Israel camp has disrupted the entire campus.

“My sense of urgency comes from increasing concern for the safety of our community. I know that many of you feel strongly that the encampment should be allowed to continue indefinitely – that the protest is simply a peaceful exercise of the right to free speech and that normal rules of conduct on campus should not apply in the face of such a tragic loss of life in Gaza,” she wrote.

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The MIT president also said that “this prolonged use of MIT campuses as a site for protests without authorization, particularly on an issue on which there is such strong disagreement, is no longer safely tenable.”