At MIT, dueling protests, but no arrests and no violence
Little more than the length of a football field separated the crowds, but their politics were worlds apart.
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Little more than the length of a football field separated the crowds, but their politics were worlds apart.
More than 1,000 protesters have been arrested on campuses in at least eight states, including at Emerson College and Northeastern University in Massachusetts, following confrontations with police in recent days.
As police dressed in riot gear removed protesters from an occupied academic building at Columbia University in New York City Tuesday night, students demonstrating on campuses at Boston-area colleges remained in place at their encampments protesting Israel’s military action in Gaza.
A group of MIT faculty said in a statement that they believe the administration will move against the protestors encamped on Kresge Lawn within the next 48 hours.
The latest scandal, with allegations of rape at the Sigma Nu fraternity house, arises after apparently willful ignorance by a new regime of campus leaders.