Police arrest scores of pro-Palestinian protesters on US university campuses
Reuters Pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested on a handful of US university campuses on Saturday, as activists vowed to keep up the movement seeking a ceasefire in Israel’s war with Hamas among other demands. The Indiana University police department in Bloomington said in an emailed statement that 23 protesters were arrested there. Students walk past a […]
Amid ongoing US university campus protests, Columbia leadership rebuked by faculty panel for police crackdown on protesters
New York City, US Reuters Columbia’s embattled president came under renewed pressure on Friday as a university oversight panel sharply criticized her administration for clamping down on a pro-Palestinian protest, saying the decision ran “contrary to the norms and traditions” of the Ivy League school. President Nemat Minouche Shafik has faced an outcry from many […]
US House Speaker Johnson heckled and booed at Columbia, centre of Gaza protests
New York/Los Angeles Reuters Columbia University students heckled House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday as he visited the flashpoint of nationwide student demonstrations over the Israeli war in Gaza, even as the New York school agreed to 48 more hours of negotiations to end a protest encampment. Johnson’s visit, which he said was meant to […]
POSTCARDS: HOW 15 MILLENNIAL COED CATHOLICS LIVE IN UNITY IN A NEW YORK BROWNSTONE
GINA RYDER, writing for Religion News Service, reports on life at Ford Hall in Manhattan…