PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters ignored a request by Drexel University’s president to disband their encampment on Monday as arrests linked to campus demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war approached the 3,000 mark nationwide. Drexel’s campus remained on lockdown, with classes being held virtually as police kept watch over the demonstration on the school’s Korman Quad. […]
PHILADELPHIA – The usual day-to-day operations at UPenn remain business as usual, except for a large pro-Palestinian encampment in the middle of the campus, with student protestors demanding the University make changes. “Our demands are the same as they were on the first day, to disclose the endowment of the University, to divest from the […]
Colleges around the US have implored pro-Palestinian student protesters to clear out tent encampments with rising levels of urgency, including an ultimatum from Columbia University for students to sign a form and leave the encampment by the afternoon or face suspension. Columbia activists defied the 2pm deadline with chants, clapping and drumming from the encampment […]
By Chayut Setboonsarng and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday said it had accepted a case seeking the dissolution of the opposition Move Forward Party, in another blow to a popular anti-establishment movement pushing major institutional reforms in the country. The court agreed to take on the complaint filed by the […]
Bethune-Cookman University released a statement Monday saying it has resolved a lawsuit against its former alumni association resulting in that group’s disbandment. Michael Shorter, vice president of the Mary McLeod Bethune National Alumni Association, confirmed that the lawsuit had been settled, and the case file in the Florida Middle District in Orlando was closed on […]