Around 75 parents and students staged a protest on Wednesday. Some children claimed their 'furry' peers were biting and scratching people. However, a spokesperson for the district slammed the claims as 'untrue'
Many UL Lafayette students gathered on Monday afternoon for what they say is a lack of action from the university following what they called a public suicide of one student.
Exasperated and under intense scrutiny, some college administrators are increasingly punishing student activists with suspensions, expulsions and arrests.
Over 80 people gathered in front of the Pentacrest Saturday to protest the University of Iowa’s decision to dissolve the Rape Victim Advocacy Program, or RVAP. The UI announced on April 4 that it would be moving RVAP resources and services to the Domestic Violence Intervention Program, or DVIP, and some RVAP employees would be
Students at the American University in Cairo and Sydney University have called for a ceasefire and divestment from companies linked to Israel.
Education is all about provocation. Without being provoked even young minds can remain stuck in old tracksThe most important thing I teach my students is to seek out people who disagree with them.That’s because the essence of learning is testing one’s ideas, assumptions and values. And what better place to test ideas, assumptions and values than at a university? Continue reading
Officials at Columbia University, facing surging tensions on campus, have taken steps to try to address students' concerns over safety and freedom of expression.
The university is to hold virtual classes after protests on campus culminated in the arrest of more than 100 studentsOver 100 students at Columbia were arrested last week after refusing to leave a pro-Palestine protest encampment set up on the university’s main campus. The arrests have since set off a chain of events, including the re-establishing of the encampment and solidarity protests on other US college campuses.On Monday, Columbia announced it will hold classes virtually to try to “reset”...
On Monday, April 15, the ASCMC Senate voted to pass a student resolution written in response to the April 5 arrests of 20 5C students at Pomona College.
USC students, faculty and pro-Palestinian protesters responded to a call to action Thursday to fight back against what they say is the "institutional silencing" of valedictorian Asna Tabassum. "Let her speak! Let her speak!" the crowd of hundreds chanted, a few holding up signs bearing Tabassum's face. USC is barring the valedictorian from speaking at its May 10 commencement — a first in the university's 143-year history — over unspecified safety threats, Provost Andrew T. Guzman announced in a...
Columbia University on Thursday arrested and suspended anti-Israel students in connection to the encampment protest that started Wednesday morning, two weeks after the university suspended four students due to anti-Semitism.
Several students and adults participated in an hours-long walkout from