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Starting at around 6 a.m. Tuesday, around 50 police officers enclosed the encampment on Cross Campus with caution tape and announced that anyone in the encampment would be arrested and face “emergency suspension.”
Following the arrest of 48 pro-Palestine protesters on Monday morning, smaller demonstrations calling for Yale to divest from military weapons manufacturers continued on Tuesday. Lead organizers of “Occupy Beinecke” — the group that set up the three-night encampment on Beinecke Plaza — announced on social media that they had handed off leadership to a broader cohort of activists, renaming the coalition as “Occupy Yale.”
Two Yale administrators, Hannah Peck and Andrew Forsythe, read a message that if the approximately 250 protesters present did not vacate Beinecke Plaza and remove tents from the encampment by 11:30 p.m., may face disciplinary action.
Yale and New Haven buildings shook after a 4.8 magnitude earthquake hit the northeast.
Officials from the Peabody Museum, which opened on March 26, said they remain committed to “culturally responsive collection stewardship” in light of new federal regulations that aim to strengthen the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.