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University administrators around the U.S. have been rethinking plans for graduations as student protests calling for a Gaza cease-fire intensify. Photo: Zaydee Sanchez/Reuters
University administrators around the U.S. have been rethinking plans for graduations as student protests calling for a Gaza cease-fire intensify. Photo: Zaydee Sanchez/Reuters
Screenshot/XThe University of Mississippi student who was seen on video making monkey noises and jumping up and down to mock a Black pro-Palestine protester has been expelled from his fraternity after his actions went viral on social media.The fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, announced in a statement on Sunday that the man in question had been swiftly removed from the organization. The student, James “JP” Staples, was identified on Instagram by the NAACP.“Phi Delta Theta General Headquarters is awar
Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/kansascitydefender/InstagramA concerned Missouri community has rallied for action after a white student—and daughter of a school board member—was filmed hurling anti-Black racial slurs months ago, with residents claiming the school’s administration only responded recently as a form of damage control rather than attempting to fix an issue that has been embedded within the culture.The video of the Summit Christian Academy High School student, who
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Students protesting the war in Gaza abandoned their camp at the University of Southern California early Sunday after being surrounded by police and threatened with arrest, while Northeastern University's commencement ended peacefully at Boston's Fenway Park. Developments in both places were being watched closely following scores of arrests last month — more than 90 people at USC in Los Angeles and about 100 at Northeastern in Boston. Dozens of Los Angeles Police Department officers arrived about 4 a.m. at USC to assist campus safety officers.
The University of Mississippi has opened an investigation into reports of students making hostile and racial gestures toward Black students on campus. The University's chancellor said he was aware of the actions.
NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University is canceling its large university-wide commencement ceremony amid ongoing pro-Palestinian protests but will hold smaller school-based ceremonies this week and next, the university announced Monday. “Based on feedback from our students, we have decided to focus attention on our Class Days and school-level graduation ceremonies, where students are honored individually alongside their peers, and to forego the university-wide ceremony that is scheduled for May 15,
When teachers at A.D. Henderson School, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. Nationally, most teachers report feeling stressed and overwhelmed at work, according to a Pew Research Center survey of teachers last fall. Waning job satisfaction over the last two decades has accompanied a decline in teachers’ sense of autonomy in the classroom, according to a recent study out of Brown University and the University of Albany.
MONTREAL — A group of pro-Palestinian protesters who have set up an encampment at McGill University's downtown Montreal campus say they're better organized and prepared than ever as the protest stretches into a second week. Protester Ari Nahman says the encampment has become a "tiny city" complete with dozens of rainproofed tents, a library, a stockpile of donated supplies and makeshift wooden sidewalks to keep the mud at bay. Today, encampment members could be seen digging a shallow trench to d
Nic Antaya/Getty ImagesDozens of pro-Palestine student protesters briefly interrupted Saturday’s commencement ceremony at the University of Michigan, according to The New York Times. Students opposing Israel’s deadly military campaign in Gaza, marched toward the stage, shouting “Regents, regents, you can’t hide! You are funding genocide!” Other students flashed Israeli flags and caps adorned with the Star of David. Overhead one plane flew by, carrying the message “Divest from Israel now! Free Pa
Pro-Palestinian student protesters entered the third day of their encampment demonstration at the University of Toronto Saturday and saw some faculty joining them in support. Robyn Maynard, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, was at the encampment Saturday supporting students. She said there's a large number of University faculty there in solidarity."We feel it's really important that we can be here as witnesses, given the kinds of dangers some of the students have been exposed
Daniel Brown, a student at Western University in London, Ont., says he's seen and experienced antisemitism on campus and that it's important for him to 'stand up to that hate' amid reports that pro-Palestinian encampments on universities across Canada have included instances of anti-Jewish rhetoric.
New civil rights regulations released last month by the Biden administration presented school districts across the nation with a clear choice: Either adopt policies that allow transgender students to use the bathrooms, wear the uniforms and be called by the pronouns that correspond with their gender identity, or risk losing federal funding. But several Republican-led states have responded with an equally clear message for their schools: Steer clear of such policies. The clashing state and federa
(Reuters) -Police on Saturday arrested at least 25 pro-Palestinian protesters and cleared an encampment at the University of Virginia, the university said in a statement, as U.S. campuses braced for more turmoil during graduation celebrations. Tensions flared at UVA's campus in Charlottesville, where protests had been largely peaceful until Saturday morning, when police officers in riot gear were seen in a video moving on an encampment on the campus' lawn, cuffing some demonstrators with zip-ties and using what appeared to be chemical spray. Students across the U.S. have rallied or set up tents at dozens of universities to protest the months-long war in Gaza and call on President Joe Biden, who has supported Israel, to do more to stop the bloodshed in Gaza.
“The racist actions in the video were those of an individual and are antithetical to the values of Phi Delta Theta," the fraternity wrote this weekend.
The University of Mississippi opened a conduct investigation Saturday into at least one student after a video went viral showing a group of students harassing a pro-Palestine protester on the campus last week. Chancellor Glenn Boyce said the counterprotesters’ chants and actions Thursday contained “hostility and racist overtones.” Video showed a group of white men…
For many, speaking in front of a large crowd is one of the most terrifying things on Earth. Standing alone behind a podium with just one’s words, a couple of notes and some passion is not something most people take to easily. For seven students at Nottawasaga Pines Secondary School in Angus, they faced the fear head-on Friday afternoon and walked away better for it. Participating in the school’s inaugural public speaking contest, the students had three to five minutes each to pitch their thought
The encampment on USC's main campus was cleared early Sunday morning after scores of protesters pitched tents and erected banners.
Dozens of protesters walked through University of Michigan's Michigan Stadium on Saturday waving Palestinian flags and leading chants, but no arrests were made
CNN is tracking where arrests have been made in a wave of pro-Palestinian campus protests rippling across US universities.