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Columbia protest escalates with campus building takeover - BBC News Columbia protest escalates with campus building takeover - BBC News
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Pro-Palestinian protesters had occupied a major administrative building at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, for the past week, forcing the small campus north of San Francisco to close until 10 May. Brandon Drenon
But overnight, local law enforcement moved in to clear their encampment, making about 35 arrests. Reporting from Texas
The charges range from vandalism to unlawful assembly, with disciplinary action likely to follow for student participants. Craig Birckhead-Morton, a senior at Yale University, says
In a statement on its website, the university said it had made "repeated efforts" to resolve the protest. his final semester in college has been "incredibly stressful" - and not for the typical reasons, like final exams.
"What was occurring was not free expression or a protest. It was criminal activity, and there were serious concerns it would spread even further on campus." For the past few weeks, his campus in New Haven, Connecticut
University president Tom Jackson Jr said: “This is a difficult day, it breaks my heart to see it, and truly nobody wanted to see things come to this." has been consistently occupied by both protesters and police.
It has made things on
campus “very tense”, he says.
Dozens of students have been arrested for protesting,
including Craig. He was charged with trespassing.
“It’s a whole new level of stress,” he says. “It’s
definitely affected me academically.”
After his arrest, Craig says Yale police kept some of the items
he needed for class later that day.
On the eve of final examinations - on 1 May - his academic progress is stalling.
“I have two final papers due next week, and I’m still behind
on it,” he says.
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